Joseph Christian “Jaws” Chestnut (born November 25, 1983) is an American aggressive eater. The 6-foot-tall (1.eight m), 218-pound (ninety nine kg) aggressive eater is presently ranked first withinside the international with the aid of using the International Federation of Competitive Eating. He is a Vallejo, California local who presently is living in San Jose, California.
On July 4, 2007, Chestnut received the 92nd Annual Nathan`s Hot Dog Eating Contest, beating six-time protecting champion Takeru “Tsunami” Kobayashi with the aid of using eating sixty six warm puppies and buns (HDB) in 12 minutes, which set a brand new international file. The following year, he effectively defended his identify with the aid of using triumphing a five warm canine eat-off after tying Kobayashi in eating fifty nine HDB in 10 minutes. On July 4, 2009, Chestnut outlasted Kobayashi again, with the aid of using eating a brand new international file of sixty eight HDB and triumphing his 1/3 consecutive identify. On July 4, 2010, Chestnut took domestic his 4th consecutive Mustard Belt ingesting fifty four HDB.
The 2010 contest turned into a runaway victory, as Kobayashi did now no longer compete because of a agreement dispute with Major League Eating. On July 4, 2011, he received his fifth-consecutive championship with sixty two HDB. 2012 marked his 6th consecutive win, while Chestnut tied his personal international file from 2009 with the aid of using devouring sixty eight HDB. In 2013, Chestnut captured his 7th immediately identify, ingesting a complete of sixty nine HDB, breaking his preceding international file. His subject tune is “Baba O`Riley”, with the aid of using The Who. It is performed as he enters the Nathan`s Hot Dog Eating Contest.
