Joey Chestnut is not ready to say goodbye to Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. When asked whether he would consider returning to the competition, Chestnut, 40, exclusively told Us Weekly he "absolutely" would.

On Monday, September 2, Netflix aired a special titled Unfinished Beef co-hosted by Rob Riggle and Nikki Garcia that featured Chestnut competing against previous rival Takeru Kobayashi. Similar to the rules in the Nathan’s contest, the two had to eat as many hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes using only their hands to win $100,000.

Netflix's "Unfinished Beef," a live competitive-eating special follows in the plodding footsteps set forth by the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, the July 4 spectacular on Coney Island. But what it recalled even more vividly were the human-interest freakouts Fox aired around the turn of the century,