Watch 4 soldiers try to eat more hot dogs than pro eater Joey Chestnut

Aggressive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut managed to out-eat 4 troopers on the similar time throughout a July 4 sizzling dog-eating contest at Fort Bliss, Texas.

Chestnut, a 16-time winner of the Nathan’s Scorching Canine Consuming Contest, went up in opposition to 4 troopers competing as a workforce in opposition to him: Spc. Daniel Almaraz Puente, Spc. Carter Shook, Maj. Jacob Elliot and Pvt. Second Class Colton Garcia. Chestnut ate 57 sizzling canine in 5 minutes in comparison with the troopers’ mixed 49 sizzling canine.

For reference, this 12 months’s winner of the Nathan’s Scorching Canine Consuming Contest was Patrick Bertoletti who ate 58 sizzling canine in 10 minutes.

“They had been pushing me and I wasn’t holding again,” Chestnut advised the group following his victory.

Chestnut mentioned probably the most sizzling canine he had ever eaten earlier than in 5 minutes was 55, so the numbers he put up at Fort Bliss put him “on report tempo.”

Usually, on July 4, Chestnut can be in Coney Island on the Nathan’s Scorching Canine Consuming Contest. However after competing within the contest for 19 years, a shock announcement final month threw a wrench in these plans.

Officers from Main League Consuming introduced on June 11 that Chestnut, who ate 62 sizzling canine eventually 12 months’s contest, can be barred from competing within the annual competitors after Chestnut signed with one other sizzling canine model, in keeping with the Related Press.

Following that information, the Fort Bliss Morale, Welfare and Recreation account on X, previously Twitter, tagged Chestnut in a tweet providing him an opportunity to compete in opposition to troopers on the base’s July 4th occasion. Chestnut enthusiastically accepted the provide.

Earlier than the competitors, Chestnut advised the group about his household’s lengthy historical past of navy service. His grandfather served within the Military Air Corps in World Conflict II, and was current throughout the bombing of Pearl Harbor. His father and brother additionally served, together with a few his uncles.

Chestnut at present holds the world report for decent canine consuming, consuming 76 sizzling canine in 10 minutes.