10 Wrestlers You Didn't Know Were Bodybuilders

6. Victoria

Victoria covered a lot of ground in WWE. She was one of The Godfather's 'Hos', won the Women's Title twice and even carved a successful post-WWE run for herself (as Tara) in TNA. Before she started training to become a wrestler in 2000, Victoria competed professionally as a bodybuilder.

Using her real name, Lisa Marie Varon, she parlayed working as a personal trainer into her first major bodybuilding comp win in 1995. From there, she started to get a taste for it and won ESPN2's Fitness America Series two years later in 1997. She followed that up by placing second the next year in '98.

Varon's other notable achievements came in competitions promoted by the Debbie Kruck Fitness Classic (1999), Lifequest Triple Crown (1997, where she ranked in the top 20), the NPC (she was first in 1995 and second in 1999) and the Women's Tri-Fitness (she placed fourth in 1998).

That's quite the pre-wrestling career.