Former WWE Diva ready to be next Brock Lesnar
Lisa Marie Varon, Former WWE Diva, Ready to Become ‘Next Brock Lesnar’ Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley have already proven…
Lisa Marie Varon, Former WWE Diva, Ready to Become ‘Next Brock Lesnar’
Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley have already proven that pro wrestlers, or at least a select few, can hang in mixed martial arts. Now Lisa Marie Varon, known as “Victoria” during her nine-year run in World Wrestling Entertainment, is poised to prove that WWE Divas can compete with the best female mixed martial artists as well.
Varon, who currently works for Total Nonstop Action wrestling as “Tara,” recently announced her intention to make her MMA debut in the near future. And while she has not set a date, the 38-year-old told FanHouse that she would love to fight before the end of the year.
“I feel more than ready now. I mean, if someone said tomorrow, You have to fight tomorrow, I feel I can fight tomorrow,” she said.
A former high school track star, and a fitness competitor later in life, Varon was first introduced to MMA by watching The Ultimate Fighter. Since then, she says, stepping into an MMA cage or ring has always been in the back of her mind.
“I really got sucked in by seeing how they lived, how they trained and everything like that. You know, for wrestling, that’s our lifestyle, too: we eat, breathe and sleep wrestling. So it kind of paralleled the same lifestyle I led, but I’ve always been a fan of it,” she said.
“When I retired from WWE in January — I’m not a stay at home person. I can’t stay home and eat bon bons, and be lazy, and enjoy the fruit of my retirement — I was looking into classes to still keep in shape and still be an athlete. I came across a school, Core Combat in Louisville, KY, and I looked at their MMA classes, and it was taught by Alex “The Brazilian Killa” Stiebling.”
Soon, she caught the MMA bug and decided to train more. First, though, she was warned that MMA was, you know, real.