She’s frankly the best.
Miki Sudo refused to let go of her coveted Mustard Belt, capturing her 12th championship by scarfing down a gut-busting 38.75 glizzies at the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Saturday morning in Coney Island.
“I just said I would have to rely on muscle memory and the crowd really carried me through to another belt today,” she told ESPN after her win.
Sudo improved on her winning tally of 33 last year, but was still a far cry from the record-breaking 51 she gobbled in 2024.
Despite winning her 11th Mustard Belt in 2025, Sudo said at the time she felt like she “let the fans down a little” because she didn’t break her own record.
Sudo, 40, has been the eater-to-beat in the women’s bracket since she first competed back in 2014, winning every competition she’s been in.
The Florida woman is graduate of the state’s Hillsborough College and has a dental hygiene degree.
Sudo’s partner, Nick Wehry, is also a competitive eater. “When they’re not racking up records on the professional competitive eating circuit or searching for America’s Next Best Food Challenge, The Hungry Couple aids in restaurant promotions and enjoys an active lifestyle in their home state of Florida with their infant son Max and American Bully, Dennis,” they say on their website.
The only one she missed was in 2021 when she was pregnant, paving the way for Michelle Lesco to claim the win, with 30.75 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes that year.
This year, Lesco landed in second place at the contest — where the crowd held signs that said “Life, Liberty, and Dogs” — with 22.
The 43-year-old from Tucson, AZ, who earned the nickname “Cardboard Shell,” is a senior manager of Youth Services at the Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona.
In third place was Domenica Dee, 34, from Seattle, Wash.
Dee, who hosts a live TikTok show called “Dee Street Eats,” took home third place at last year’s competition, with 22.
Thomas Leible 19, a student of economics and business at the Virginia Military Institute has been watching competitive eating since he was 5 years old with his dad on TV.
At his first-ever Nathan’s event, he even got Sudo to autograph his T-shirt calling her just as dominant as Joey Chestnut.
“Two GOATS,” he said.
