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| 1/12/2018

"There is nothing normal about putting a three-course meal and pro wrestling together."

-- BryanCaleb Smith, founder of Kissimmee’s Manor Pro Wrestling Dinner Theater

A masked wrestler named Carrion stands atop the ring, setting up for a devastating shooting-star press onto his rival, Blanco Loco, lying motionless on the mat. Nearby, a family cheers between bites of dessert.

It’s pro wrestling dinner theater, which is odd even by wrestling standards. It’s not the unhinged circus clown Chuckles delivering a ruthless beating to a smiling, singlet-wearing Bobby Fonta that does it — it’s the juxtaposition with dinner that makes it extra bizarre.

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