Former AFL great Sam Newman has launched an extraordinary attack on a transgender woman who took out a hot dog eating competition in the United States after transitioning.
The outspoken Newman took the an opportunity to mock the trans-champion after it was raised in his podcast, You Cannot Be Serious.
Michelle Lesco ate 30 hotdogs to win the women’s division and $10,000 prize at the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest last weekend in the United States.
Michelle Lesco wins the women's competition by consuming 30.75 Nathan's hot dogs at the 2021 Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island on July 4, 2021 in New York City
Former footy scribe Mike Sheahen, ex-St Kilda coach Grant Thomas(centre) and Sam Newman (right) appeared in a 2019 video where Newman joked he was transitioning
Newman has had a tough year after losing his wife Amanda earlier this year
This year, 17 men and 13 women competed in the event, with world No. 9-ranked eater Lesco taking out the women's prize.
Lesco's greatest threat Miki Sudo — who devoured 48 hotdogs in 2020 to break the world record and win her seventh straight title — sat this year out because she’s due to give birth at the end of the month.
Newman was told Lesco had taken out the prize after failing to qualify for the event two years earlier as a man.
While under lockdown in Covid-plagued Arizona, Lesco went into training after transitioning.
'You'd think she'd be good at eating hotdogs in that case wouldn't you,' Newman responded.
'You'd think that would be her forte. Sticking a hotdog in your gob - 30 of them.'
'That's just wrong,' co-host Rod Law told Newman.
But the 75-year old was on a roll.
'She was Mexican - they called her one-eater. She had one tooth,' Newman chuckled.
'So she ate 30, or he. What's her pronoun?' Newman asked. 'They, thy, thee,
