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We don’t cite a web site called Pizza Marketing Quartely very often, but this little story has piqued our interest. Have you ever seen those acrobatic pizza dough competitions on the Food Network? As bizarre at it may seem to you, these contests have their stars and one of the biggest is a Mexican named Juan Hermosillo, a pizza tosser who had been living in the U.S. since he was 9 years old.

The fourth place title in the entire world goes to Juan Hermosillo for dough tossing at the 2006 World Pizza Championship in Salsomaggiore, Italy. However, Juan, who represented the United States as the U.S. Pizza Team’s acrobatic dough tosser, has been denied the right to re-enter into the United States, where he has lived for the past seventeen years of his life.

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