Joey Chestnut Not Competing At Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest In Fight Over Vegan Dogs

The country's most famous wiener eating challenge is pushing ahead without its star stomach, after 16-time champion Joey "Jaws" Chestnut was restricted for inking an arrangement with an organization that makes plant-based franks.

Coordinators of the Nathan's Renowned Frank Eating Challenge said Tuesday that they prohibited Chestnut from the July fourth occasion after he marked an underwriting manage Unimaginable Food varieties, which as of late sent off another promoting effort explicitly focusing on meat-eaters.

Significant Association Eating (MLE), the association that manages proficient serious eating occasions (counting yet not restricted to franks), said in a proclamation that Chestnut had "decided to address an opponent brand" as opposed to contend in its celebrated Coney Island challenge.

"For almost twenty years we have worked under a similar fundamental wiener restrictiveness arrangements," the assertion said. "Nonetheless, it appears to be that Joey and his chiefs have focused on another organization with an alternate hot dog brand throughout our long-term relationship."

Chestnut, who has crushed north of 1,000 wieners in the challenge since his journey for Coney Island predominance started in 2005, said via online entertainment that he was "destroyed to gain from the media" about the boycott.

"I love contending in that occasion, I love observing America with my fans all around this extraordinary country on the fourth and I have been preparing to safeguard my title," Chestnut said, adding that the choice by MLE and Nathan's will "deny the incredible aficionados of the occasion's typical bliss and amusement."

He said he doesn't have an agreement with MLE or Nathan's Popular, and blamed them for "hoping to change the principles from previous years as it connects with different accomplices I can work with."

Incomprehensible seems, by all accounts, to be attempting to avoid the meat.

"We love Joey and support him in any challenge he picks," an organization representative said in an explanation imparted to NPR. "It's alright to try different things with another canine. Meat eaters shouldn't need to be elite to only one wiener."

Impossible appears to be trying to stay out of the beef.

This denotes the initial time in right around twenty years that Chestnut and his widely acclaimed jaws will not be gracing the side of Surf and Stillwell roads on Coney Island.

Chestnut has ruled the July fourth challenge since his most memorable success in 2007, when he crushed — and started a years-in length contention — with six-time champ Takeru Kobayashi, the purported "guardian of cutthroat eating" who declared his retirement recently.

He has reliably won the sought after Mustard Yellow Belt consistently since, with the exception of a longshot unglued about Matt Stonie in 2015. The quantity of 56-gram, 6.75-inch hot dogs he's swallowed over the course of the years gauge what might be compared to the typical UFC featherweight warrior (around 142 pounds) and would pile up to over two times the level of the Sculpture of Freedom, as per ESPN.