Lisa Marie Varon

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Lisa Marie Varon
Varon in 2017.

Varon in 2017.
Data
Surname Lisa Marie Varon
Ring name Lisa Marie Varon
Tara
Victoria
Additions to names The Black Widow
The Vicious Vixen
height 173 cm
Fighting weight 62 kg
birth February 10, 1971
San Bernardino , California
nationality United StatesUnited States United States
Announced from Los Angeles , California
Trained by Dave Finlay
Memphis Championship Wrestling
Ohio Valley Wrestling
Ultimate Pro Wrestling
debut June 2000

Lisa Marie Varon (born February 10, 1971 in San Bernardino , California , USA , as Lisa Marie Sole ), better known by her ring name Victoria and Tara is an American wrestler . In her career, she won the WWE Women's Championship twice and the TNA Knockouts Championship five times .

Early years

Varon was born to a Puerto Rican and a Turkish woman. She grew up as the only girl out of three brothers who all became wrestlers . She studied medicine at the University of California in Los Angeles , with the future goal of becoming a doctor.

Varon began with dumbbells and set out for a career as a bodybuilder and actress. She appeared on ESPN 's Fitness America Series in 1997 and 1998, and also had supporting roles on the series VIP and Nikki. In 1998 she befriended Torrie Wilson at the Miss Galaxy competition , who a year later signed a contract with the Wrestling Promotion World Championship Wrestling . Then Varon was invited to a WCW recording. Then Varon initially worked in the television industry.

Wrestling career

World Wrestling Entertainment (2000-2009)

In the meantime, Varon worked for a Californian gym, where she met the wrestler Chyna . Varon introduced these to some WWE officials . After being hired, she was employed in the Ultimate Pro Wrestling promotion, one of the WWE's farm leagues at the time.

She made her official debut in WWE in June 2000 under the name Victoria , initially as a companion to Charles Wright .

She was then sent by the WWE to other training leagues, the Memphis Championship Wrestling and the Ohio Wrestling Championship, where she used the name Queen Victoria .

In July 2002 she was inducted back into WWE, and in August of that year she began her first major feud against the then reigning WWE Women's Champion Trish Stratus . On November 17, 2002 she won the WWE Women's Championship and held it until March 30, 2003. There she lost the title again to Trish Stratus in a triple threat match at WrestleMania XIX.

On February 23, 2004, she won the WWE Women's Championship from Molly Holly. On June 13, 2004 she lost him again to Trish Stratus.

After several matches for the title, Varon was sent from RAW to SmackDown on June 17, 2007 as part of a line-up change (the so-called WWE Draft ) . After minor feuds and an alliance with Kenny Dykstra , she left the WWE on January 16, 2009. Her last appearance was at WrestleMania 25 in a Battle Royal.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2009-2013)

On May 24, 2009, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling announced that Varon had signed a contract with TNA. She made her TNA debut in iMPACT! - Issued May 28, 2009 under the new ring name Tara , which is the short form of "Tarantula". Already on July 9th, 2009 Varon defeated Angelina Love and became the new TNA Knockouts Champion . Two weeks later at the major event Victory Road , she lost the title again to Love.

Tara at Slammiversary 2009 .

At Final Resolution on December 20, 2009, she defeated ODB and won the TNA Knockouts Championship again. In the live broadcast of the Impact issue of January 4, 2010, she had to give the title back to ODB. Two weeks later at Genesis , Tara defeated ODB in a "two out of three falls" match and won the title for the third time. On April 5, 2010 in iMPACT! she lost the title to Angelina Love. After several feuds for the title, she left TNA.

On July 11th, she returned at Victory Road at Madison Rayne's side . On October 10, 2010 she was again title holder at Bound for Glory by defeating the previous title holder Angelina Love, Velvet Sky and Madison Rayne. In the following iMPACT! Issue she had to hand over the title to Rayne because, according to the storyline , she was under contract with her. Both formed an alliance until May 2011, before the "contract" was dissolved by Rayne's losing match. A brief feud between the two ensued.

At the TV tapings for Impact Wrestling on July 12, 2011, she won the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship from Mexican America (Sarita & Rosita) for the first time together with Brooke Tessmacher . They lost the title to Gail Kim and Madison Rayne on October 26, 2011 on Impact Record . At Bound for Glory on October 14, 2012 she won the TNA Knockouts Championship again from Miss Tessmacher . She lost the title on January 26, 2013 in a Four Way Elimination match at Velvet Sky.

On July 16, 2013, Varon was released from TNA.

Private life

Varon owns a Car Custom & Tuning Shop in her hometown of Louisville / KY, which was broken into on December 16, 2010 and several fires were started. The workshop burned down completely, people were not harmed. The shop had already been criticized because a local football player reported to a TV station that he had left his car to the garage and got it back completely demolished.

Titles and awards

WWE Women's Champion Victoria in March 2003.
TNA Knockouts Champion Tara in February 2013.

Cheerleading

  • National Cheerleading Association
    • NCA All-American Award

fitness

  • Debbie Kruck Fitness Classic
    • 1st place (Tall Class 1999)
  • ESPN2 Fitness America Series
    • 1st place (1997)
    • 2nd place (1998)
  • Lifequest Triple Crown
    • Top 20 (1997)
  • National Physique Committee
    • NPC Inland Empire (1st place MW 1995)
    • NPC Team Universe (1st place Tall Class 1999)
  • Women's Tri-Fitness
    • Ironwoman Tri-Fitness (4th place 1998)
    • Tri-Fitness Hall of Fame (2012)

Wrestling

  • Master of Ring Entertainment
    • MORE Wrestling Women's Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fire of Varons Store , accessed on May 27, 2011th
  2. ↑ Review by a football player , accessed May 27, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Lisa Marie Varon  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Varon, Lisa Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Victoria, Queen Victoria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler and bodybuilder
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH San Bernardino , California