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Inside Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi's long-running hot dog eating rivalry as they prepare to compete on Netflix
Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi are to competitive eating what Larry Bird and Magic Johnson were to basketball, or Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier were to boxing.
Two of their sports' best going head to head on a consistent basis of the highest stakes with few other contemporaries that can compare.
The dormant hot dog-eating rivalry reignites later Monday for Netflix's live event, 'Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef'. The duo have not faced in a high-profile professional hot dog eating contest since 2009.
For the first time since 2000, neither man competed in this year's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, leading to the rival gorging of wieners and buns.
Here's an inside look at the rivalry between arguably the two best competitive eaters of all-time.
Joey Chestnut will face Takeru Kobayashi in a live eating special on Netflix on Labor Day
The eating rivals have not faced in a major competition in over 15 years before Monday's clash
Kobayashi and Chestnut have been eating against each other since 2005, when fresh out of college, Chestnut entered the competitive eating scene.
The first Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest between the men was a blowout, with Kobayashi eating 49 dogs to Chestnut's 32.
Kobayashi had already achieved cult status by the time Chestnut came onto the scene. His 50 hot-dog performance in 2001 nearly doubled the winning total from the year before.
The 2006 duel between Kobayashi and Chestnut was much closer, with the Japanese eating star defeating his American rival by less than two hot dogs.
In 2007, Chestnut defeated Kobayashi for the first time by three hot dogs.
The historic 2008 event saw the time limit to eat as many hot dogs as possible drop from 12 minutes to 10. Chestnut and Kobayashi tied after that duration for an eat-off after 59 hot dogs. Chestnut won with five overtime dogs consumed in 50 seconds, seven seconds better than his Japanese rival.
The 2009 hot dog-eating contest was the last Independence Day event where Kobayashi and Chestnut competed against each other, with the American guzzler winning by more than three wieners.
Kobayashi has not competed in the Fourth of July event since 2009 due to not signing an exclusive contract with Major League Eating, leading to a run of Chestnut dominance.
From 2007-2023, Chestnut lost the hot dog-eating contest once, a two-dog loss to Matt Stonie in 2015.
Chestnut himself did not compete in this year's hot-dog eating contest due to his sponsorship from Impossible Foods.
Now, the combined winners of 22 of the last 24 hot dog-eating contests will go one-on-one, 15 years after they last met in a battle of buns and wieners.