Joey Chestnut‘s celebration of National Doughnut Day is a bitter pastry to swallow, because like Anthony Joshua‘s upset loss to Andy Ruiz Jr. — Joey’s gone down like a bag of … y’know.
The famous wiener-eating champ strolled into Friday’s second annual World Hostess Donettes-Eating Championship in Austin as the reigning champ but walked away settling for second place.
The winner — Geoffrey Esper from Oxford, MA — did him 35 better for this year’s belt.
Chestnut entered the competition ranked No. 1 in the world, but fell short in the 6-minute competition. In case you were wondering, the guys gorged themselves on powdered doughnuts.
BTW … in total, the entire competition feasted on an astonishing 1,160 doughnuts. The good news for Joey is he still holds the record — he inhaled 257 doughnuts during last year’s test!!
Time to get your gut ready for Fourth of July, Joey.