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At the sport's premiere event on Monday, July 4th,, the world's greatest eaters will bravely take part in the fight.
Joey Chestnut clutched into the Hudson Yard in New York City during the official weighing before the 2022 Nathan's International Hot Dog Eating Contest on Friday. Shocked the fast-eating and gluttony community —July 4thtradition on Coney Island.
"I'm going to eat like a madman," the world's top-ranked eater told FoxNews Digital before weighing at 235 pounds.
Joey Chestnut breaks the record and Nathan's Famous Contest to Eat 76 Hot Dogs in 2021
{23 "It's a tendon rupture," he described his injury."It's okay. I can stand up and eat. I'm excited."
Nathan's International Hot Dog Eating Champion Joey Chestnut.
The 14-time Nathan's Famous Champion made a black cast under his right knee and walked with crutches under his arms.
"I don't eat with my feet," Chestnut told fans.
Indiana's 38-year-old Chestnut set a world record in 2021 by consuming an incredible 76 hot dogs and breads in just 10 minutesNathan's FamousHot Dog Meal Contest.
"I don't eat with my feet," Chestnut told fans.
He refused to identify the cause of his leg injury, simply saying "life has happened."
"When the barren hills and cracked land, and the once proud sea flow into the sand, there is still a monument to our existence," said the moderator and Nathan's famous hot dog. George Shea, the organizer of the dog-eating contest, said: Reigning champion.
"This man represents everything that is eternal in the human spirit."
Winners Joey Chestnut and Michelle Resco pose on the championship belt And Connie on Sunday, July 4, 2021 in Brooklyn, New York. Trophy at Nathan's Famous Independence Day International Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island's My Monides Park. (AP Photo / British Newman)
The women's division is the long-awaited between 2021 champion Michelle Lesco and the dynasty Sudomiki. Offering a match of esophageal grudges, achieved 7 consecutive victories from 2014 to 2021.
Due to pandemic travel restrictions, Resco was unable to compete in the reduced 2020 Games held indoors without spectators that year.
Dismayed hot dogs on July 4, 2016 Joey Chestnut to do.(AP Photo / Mary Altaffer)
Sudo, who eats the best woman in the world, couldn't play last year because he was pregnant with his father Max. rice field. No. 3rd place male rival Nick Wellie.
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"I'm so excited to come back I'm doing it, "said Sudo.
"It's been a while since I ate a hot dog in front of the crowd on Coney Island."
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Nathan's famous hot dog eating contest was first held 1916.
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Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter for FoxNews Digital.