 The 39-year-old from Chicago stuffing his mouth this Fourth of July to hot dog heaven, some say by default. After 16-time champion Joey Chestnut was barred from the event for signing a deal with a competing plant-based hot dog company. But Bertoletti says he won the contest at New York's Coney Island Fair and Square. I wasn't going to stop eating until the job was done. Spoken like a true champion. Derek Dennis, ABC News, New York.