Joey Chestnut wanted 80 hot dogs, but 72 was more than enough to win his 10th Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest title. The man know as "Jaws" scarfed two more hot dogs than the 70 he ate last year to beat his own world record. 
 
 Joey Chestnut final tally: 🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭 — CBS Sports (@CBSSports) July 4, 2017 
 
 And still! 
 
 
 
 By eating a world-record 72 hot dogs in 10 minutes, Joey Chestnut wins a 10th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest. Simply the best. pic.twitter.com/rdl4iOqPK1 — ESPN (@espn) July 4, 2017 
 
 This is how Chestnut was delivered to the stage -- an entrance befitting of a hot dog-eating legend. 
 
 THIS is how a champion deserves to be introduced - on a mustard yellow chariot #NathansHotDogEatingContest #JoeyChestnut pic.twitter.com/2FmxcFZW1e — Jeff D (@JDubCLT) July 4, 2017 
 
 Carmen Cincotti finished second with 62 hot dogs and buns, while Matt "Megatoad" Stonie -- who beat Chestnut in 2015 -- trailed far behind in third with 48 hot dogs and buns. For context, the 72 hot dogs that Chestnut ate Tuesday is more than an average American will eat -- in one year. 
 
 The average American eats 70 hot dogs a year, according to the Hot Dog & Sausage Council. 
 
 
 
 Joey Chestnut just ate 72 in 10 minutes. — Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 4, 2017 Joey Chestnut Wins, Eats 72 Hot Dogs & Buns: 
 
 
 
 Calories: 20,160 
 
 Fat: 1,296 g 
 
 Cholesterol: 2,160 mg 
 
 Sodium: 56,160 mg 
 
 Protein: 720 g — Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 4, 2017 
 
 Chestnut said at Monday's pre-contest weigh-in that he models his training after marathoners, slowly building up to eating more and more franks as the contest approaches. And with 10 titles, he's now entering some very elite territory among sports legends. That is, if you consider competitive eating a sport. 
 
 In another debate about eating, former six-time Nathan's champion Takeru Kobayashi has offered his take on whether a hot dog is a sandwich. And his answer might surprise you. 
 
 In the women's contest, Miki Sudo (MIHK'-ee SOO'-doh) won her fourth yellow mustard belt. The Las Vegas woman ate 41 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to win her fourth straight title Tuesday. She beat Michelle Lesco, who downed 32 franks and buns. Women's record-holder Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas came in third with 30. 
 
 Chestnut tweeted earlier that he planned to break his record of 70 from last July 4, and he wasn't shooting for just one more dog. 
 
 On July 4th, I have a goal that begins with an 8. I know @MattStonie & @carmencincotti are making gains. so am I.. https://t.co/bb73u13gfE — Joey Chestnut (@joeyjaws) June 28, 2017 ||||| Click here if you are unable to view this gallery on a mobile device 
 
 San Jose resident and competitive eater extraordinaire Joey Chestnut claimed victory again Wednesday at the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York, downing 74 franks in 10 minutes for a new world record. 
 
 For the 11th time in 12 years, Chestnut ate more hot dogs and their buns than any other competitor, beating second-place finisher Carmen Cincotti, who turned 26 the day of the Fourth of July competition, by 10 franks. 
 
 “I didn’t let the heat bother me or the humidity,” Chestnut said Wednesday afternoon after the contest from his hotel room where he’d just finished taking a cool shower. 
 
 “I was expecting to be right about there,” he said of eating 74 franks, admitting he “got a bit lazy at the end.” 
 
 But the victory didn’t come easily. At one point, Chestnut said, a dog got lodged in his throat. 
 
 “I stayed calm,” he said. “I just kept going.” 
 
 And originally, the counters wrongly said Chestnut ate 64 hot dogs, apparently unaware from the beginning that he was pulling from two plates at once. But a review eventually showed the final tally was 74. 
 
 The mixup distracted Chestnut while he was eating, he said, but “it all worked out in the end.” 
 
 “I’m sure they’ll make changes next year to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” he said. 
 
 The 34-year-old former construction manager turned full-time competitive eater said he prepared in the days leading up to the contest by fasting — subsisting Tuesday on water with lemon, amino acids and a few caramels. 
 
 Chestnut took advantage of a heat wave in San Jose a couple of weeks ago to practice eating in the hot temperatures that are synonymous with East Coast summers, even if he couldn’t replicate the stickiness. 
 
 He’d been in New York since last Thursday, he said, acclimating to the oppressing humidity. 
 
 That appeared to pay off Wednesday, as Chestnut outpaced his 20 challengers in the competition’s 102nd year. 
 
 As crowds donning hot dog hats packed Coney Island, Chestnut alternated between shoving two hot dogs and two buns dunked in water to soften them up into his mouth for the duration of the competition, getting into a steady rhythm during the 10-minute endurance test. 
 
 “If I’m going to get up on stage to eat hot dogs,” Chestnut told ESPN, which broadcast the competition, “I’m not going to do it to get third or fourth.” 
 
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 They said it: Joey Chestnut does it again 
 
 Joey Chestnut says he’s ready to break new record at hot dog eating contest Hot dogs aren’t the only food the professional eater is known for eating in massive quantities. According to Major League Eating, the body that oversees professional eating contests, Chestnut once ate nearly 13 pounds of deep-fried asparagus in 10 minutes and 55 glazed donuts in the same amount of time. In 2013, he inhaled 141 hard-boiled eggs in eight minutes. 
 
 After Chestnut beat Takeru Kobayashi in 2007 for the title of top dog, winning the coveted Mustard Yellow Belt, he remained undefeated for eight straight years. His one and only loss came in 2015 at the hands of fellow San Jose resident Matt Stonie, but Chestnut reclaimed victory in 2016 and has maintained champion status since. 
 
 Stonie placed outside the top three Wednesday but promised in a tweet to push to do better next year. 
 
 In the women’s competition, Miki Sudo defended her title, becoming just the third competitor to win five titles and downing 37 franks in 10 minutes. 
 
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 Both Chestnut and Sudo will take home a $10,000 first-place prize. 
 
 But first, Chestnut said, he plans to rest a bit before making the trip back to San Jose. 
 
 “I’m going to take a nap,” he said just after 5 p.m. in New York. “I should be good by around 11 p.m.”
– Joey Chestnut is only one win away from tying Bill Russell's record 11 championships—granted one played professional basketball and the other just eats a lot of hot dogs. The AP reports Chestnut—who was carried to the stage in a bright-yellow chariot—won the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest Tuesday for the 10th time, downing 72 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes for a new world record. Despite beating his previous record of 70 hot dogs and buns, Chestnut fell short of his goal of 80, according to CBS Sports. The average American is said to eat 70 hot dogs in a year, and ESPN's Darren Rovell tweets Chestnut consumed more than 20,000 calories and nearly 1,300 grams of fat to earn his Fourth of July victory. Second-place finisher Carmen Cincotti ate 62 hot dogs and buns.