Is Netflix The New ‘Ocho’ Of Live Pseudo-Sports? Chestnut Vs. Kobayashi Will Settle Their Beef On Who Can Inhale The Most Hot Dogs
deadline.comOn the heels of its upcoming live bout between over the hill boxing great Mike Tyson and YouTuber Jake Paul, Netflix has taken another turn toward becoming The Ocho of live sporting contests.
The streamer just announced that it will stream a winner take all hot dog eating contest on Labor Day between reigning Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest champ Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi, the previous champ.
The event is being called Chestnut Vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef, and they’ll announced venue and time later on. Chestnut’s the world record-holder for eating 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes, and he has won the July 4 Coney Island event 8 years in a row.
If he’s Muhammad Ali of hot dog gorging, his Joe Frazier would be Kobayashi, who put the “sport” on the map in 2001 when he doubled the amount consumed by the past winner when he inhaled his first of six Hot Dog Eating titles.
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