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Netflix will settle 15 years of Chestnut vs. Kobayashi with a live hot dog-eating contest

“Unfinished Beef”

Netflix has scheduled Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef on September 2nd as another one of its live events, along with Christmas Day NFL games, WWE Monday Night Raw, and the delayed Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight. Then, on June 11th, Major League Eating announced a ban on Chestnut, a 16-time winner and the world record holder for most hot dogs, related to his deal with Impossible Foods. And now Netflix, which is now looking a lot more like the “ Blue Sky ” days of the USA Network than HBO, has another curiosity to tout — location and specific timing to be announced later.

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