How and when to watch Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest for July 4, 2025

The Fourth of July brings with it galore traditions: fireworks, formation trips, cookouts, terrified dogs and, of course, the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.  

As usual, the contention volition beryllium held connected July Fourth astatine the archetypal Nathan's Famous determination connected Coney Island successful Brooklyn, New York.

Following a prohibition past year, 16-time Nathan's blistery canine eating champion and world-record holder Joey Chestnut is back this twelvemonth to vie for the Mustard Belt and the $10,000 expansive prize. He'll look disconnected against defending champion Patrick Bertoletti and 13 different competitors. On the women's side, satellite grounds holder Miki Sudo volition look to support her rubric for a 4th consecutive year.

What clip does Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest commencement and end?

Coverage of the contention begins astatine 10:45 a.m. ET with the women's competition, which volition apt footwear disconnected astir 11 a.m. Coverage of the men's contention begins astatine noon ET, with the contention itself opening astir 12:30 p.m. ET. 

The contention volition extremity astir 1 p.m. ET.

How tin you ticker the blistery canine eating contention connected cable?

The Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest volition aerial exclusively connected ESPN stations. Check your section listings for the circumstantial channel. Coverage volition statesman astatine noon ET connected ESPN2 and volition diagnostic a recap of the women's contention and a unrecorded airing of the men's contest. 

The contention volition besides re-air connected ESPN astatine 5 p.m. ET and astatine 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. ET connected ESPN2.

How tin you watercourse the blistery canine eating contention without cable?

The contention volition besides beryllium disposable connected ESPN3, the sports broadcaster's online streaming platform. Those without cablegram tin motion up for an ESPN+ relationship oregon a Disney bundle that includes ESPN. 

The women's contention volition aerial unrecorded connected ESPN3 earlier the cablegram sum begins. This year, ESPN3 volition besides connection isolated shots of Chestnut and Sudo during their competitions.

Are determination immoderate different ways to ticker the blistery canine contention connected the Fourth of July?

Those with subscriptions to online TV streaming services that see ESPN, specified arsenic YouTube TV, volition besides beryllium capable to watch.

Who volition beryllium competing successful the blistery canine eating contest?

The competitors connected the women's broadside successful this year's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest are:

• Miki Sudo: 39 years old, 5'7" — Tampa, Florida
• Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco: 41, 5'4" — Tucson, Arizona
• Domenica Dee: 33, 5 feet — Westchester, New York
• Tandra Childress: 39, 5'5" — San Francisco, California
• Katie Prettyman: 42, 5'5" — Marysville, Washington
• Larell Marie Mele: 55, 5'6" — Long Pond, Pennsylvania
• Isabeau Prettyman: 18, 5'5" — Marysville, Washington
• Jocelyn Young: 44, 5'9" — Sherman, Texas
• Kelly Lewis: 32 — Overland Park, Kansas
• Elizabeth "Glizzy Lizzy" Salgado: 33 — Kern County, California
• Cherish Brown: 36, 5'3" — Edon, Ohio
• Madison Barone: 24, 5'9" — Manville, New Jersey
• Laura Beitler: 30, 5'7" — Batavia, Illinois
• Camille O'Brien: 38, 5'5" — Jeffersonville, New York

Sudo has won 3 consecutive contests successful a row. Prior to that, she had won 7 successful a enactment from 2015 to 2020.

The men's competitors are:

• Joey Chestnut: 41 years old, 6'1" — Westfield, Indiana
• Patrick Bertoletti: 40, 6'2" — Chicago, Illinois 
• James Webb: 36, 6'1" — Sydney, Australia
• Nick Wehry: 35, 5'10" — Tampa, Florida
• Geoffrey Esper: 50, 5'7" — Oxford, Massachusetts
• Max Stanford: 37, 6'1" — Brixton, England
• Derek Hendrickson: 37, 6'3" — Las Vegas, Nevada
• George Chiger: 46, 6'6" — Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania
• Ricardo Corbucci: 38, 5'9" — Brasilia, Brazil
• Gideon Oji: 33, 6'9" — Morrow, Georgia
• Adrian Morgan: 42, 6'1" — Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Radim Dvořáček: 34, 5'9" — Ostrava, Czech Republic
• Darrien Thomas: 26, 5'8" — Ontario, Canada
• Cameron Meade: 21, 5'8" — Valparaiso, Indiana
• Jerome Burns: 33, 5'6" — Danbury, Connecticut

Chestnut volition look to triumph his 17th Mustard Belt portion Beroletti volition effort to support his archetypal and lone rubric astatine the contest.

Why didn't Joey Chestnut vie past year?

Chestnut was banned from the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest successful 2024 due to the fact that of a sponsorship woody helium signed with Impossible Foods, which sells plant-based nutrient substitutes, including blistery dogs. 

"MLE [Major League Eating] and Nathan's went to large lengths successful caller months to accommodate Joey and his absorption team, agreeing to the quality interest and allowing Joey to vie successful a rival unbranded blistery canine eating contention connected Labor Day," Major League Eating, which sanctions the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, said successful a connection astatine the time. "For astir 2 decades, we person worked nether the aforesaid basal blistery canine exclusivity provisions. However, it seems that Joey and his managers person prioritized a caller concern with a antithetic blistery canine marque implicit our longtime relationship."  

Chestnut ended up competing against his aged rival, Takeru Kobayashi, successful a blistery canine eating contention that streamed connected Netflix connected Labor Day past year. Chestnut ended up winning that contest, which followed the aforesaid rules arsenic the Nathan's competition.

Chestnut has agreed to lone endorse Nathan's blistery dogs going forward, truthful helium was allowed to instrumentality this year.

Who is expected to triumph the blistery canine eating contest?

Chestnut and Sudo are acold and distant the favorites to triumph the men's and women's contests, respectively. Chestnut comes successful astatine an tremendous -2000 favorite. Bertoletti is +1200, but comes successful astatine +155 successful the Winner Without Chestnut market, according to CBS Sports.

Many sportsbooks aren't adjacent offering likelihood connected the women's broadside owed to Sudo's dominance, according to CBS Sports. However, betting adept Matt Severance told CBS Sports the Under 45.5 for Sudo astatine -105 could beryllium a worthwhile wager.  

Check retired CBS Sports for a much elaborate breakdown of the hot canine eating contest's odds and predictions.

What is the grounds magnitude of blistery dogs eaten astatine a blistery canine eating contest?

Chestnut holds some the authoritative and unofficial satellite records for astir blistery dogs eaten successful a competition. He downed 83 blistery dogs and buns successful 10 minutes during his Labor Day contention against Kobayashi, but since that lawsuit wasn't sanctioned by Major League Eating, it's not considered official. 

The authoritative satellite grounds is 76, besides acceptable by Chestnut during the 2021 Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. 

What are the rules for Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest?

The rules for the blistery canine eating contention are reasonably simple. Competitors person 10 minutes to devour as galore blistery dogs and buns arsenic possible. They tin interruption the blistery dogs up with their hands and abstracted them from the buns, but the full thing, blistery canine and bun, has to beryllium swallowed for it to count. 

Utensils and condiments are prohibited.

Water is provided, but contestants tin bring different non-alcoholic beverages if they want. Contestants tin dunk the buns successful the h2o oregon their beverage, but lone for a maximum of 5 seconds.

If a contestant throws up, they're disqualified.

Whoever downs the astir blistery dogs and buns successful the 10-minute clip play is the winner.