When hot dog-guzzling champion Joey Chestnut was banned from the July 4 contest that made him famous, he vowed that fans would see him eat again soon. And mere hours later, Netflix whet fans' appetite with a particularly savory announcement: Chestnut is slated to face off against his archrival, Takeru Kobayashi, for the first time since 2009.
Kobayashi, 46, is often called the Godfather of Competitive Eating, and credited with popularizing the sport in the U.S. Then came Kobayashi, who rose to fame eating 16 bowls of ramen in an hour on a TV show in his native Japan. He first brought his talents and a novel technique, involving snapping hot dogs in half and dunking buns in water, to the Coney Island stage in 2001.
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