Joey Chestnut ‘Positively’ Needs to Return to Sizzling Canine Contest, 2024 Champ Says

Everybody needs Joey Chestnut again within the Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest — from followers to his opponents and even Jaws himself … ‘trigger final yr’s champion tells TMZ Sports activities the glizzy king “positively” needs to make a comeback!!

We chopped it up with Patrick Bertoletti recent off our report in regards to the ongoing talks between Main League Consuming and Chestnut … and he advised us his good buddy is hungry to be again onstage in Coney Island this Fourth of July.

“In the event that they’re speaking, that is a superb factor,” Bertoletti stated. “And I feel it is a greater competitors general if he is there.”

Bertoletti thinks if Chestnut is again, he’ll return with a vengeance — and though he is undecided he’ll break the 83 mark he set towards Takeru Kobayashi throughout their occasion in Las Vegas in September … Patrick has no doubts Joey can be popping out to show a degree.

“After a nasty breakup, you need your ex to see you with a very sizzling chick, and also you wish to show them flawed and make a press release,” he stated.

“And he is already made so many statements, he is pushed by motivation, and I am sort of afraid to see what it is unleashing in him if he does come again, and what he is able to.”

There’s extra — Bertoletti shared the playful smack speak he dished to Chestnut throughout his yr as champ … which went down in the course of the Thanksgiving vacation (aspect be aware: are you able to think about aggressive eaters assembly up for Turkey Day?!)