Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi has announced his retirement in a new Netflix documentary in which the six-time winner of the famous Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest revealed that he no ...

Six-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion Takeru Kobayashi announced he is officially retiring from competitive eating in order to "live a healthy and long life." Kobayashi expressed his ...

Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi has retired, revealing he no longer has an appetite. The 46-year-old made the retirement admission in a new Netflix documentary called "Hack Your Health ...

On Tuesday, the sports world learned that Takeru Kobayashi is retiring from competitive eating. Kobayashi, 46, won the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest six times over the course of his career.

Takeru Kobayashi was once the king of Coney Island — at least on the Fourth of July. But it's been over a decade since he's taken the stage at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Kobayashi won ...

After decades of dominance, a legend in competitive eating says he literally no longer has the hunger to keep going. Kobayashi announced his retirement in the new Netflix documentary Hack Your ...

Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef. The competitive eating competition will stream live Monday, Sept. 2 aka Labor Day beginning at 3 pm ET/12 pm PT, with actor/comedian Rob Riggle and WWE Hall of Famer ...

With Chestnut exiled and Japanese competitive eating legend Takeru Kobayashi retired, the 2024 hot dog competition is set to be an animal-intestine shell of its former self. Perhaps someone will ...

Kobayashi has not won the competition since, and Chestnut is currently ranked No. 1 in competitive eating by the MLE. For a hot dog to be counted as finished, competitors must consume both the hot ...

The special, called Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef, will be broadcast on the streaming service on Sept. 2. The competitive eater has been in the profession since 2005, the same year he ...

Chestnut burst onto the competitive eating scene in 2005 when he qualified ... edging out Takeru Kobayashi by consuming 66 hot dogs. As money began to pour in from consistent victories in eating ...