Angelina Love scores disputed pin to regain TNA Women's title

Angelina Love pinned Tara in the opener of the TNA Victory Road PPV to regain the promotion's Knockout Women's title, though not without more than a little controversy. Tara (fka Victoria) had her foot draped on the bottom rope during Love's pinfall attempt but referee Slick Johnson counted her down anyway.

The referee claimed to have simply not seen Tara's foot on the rope which would have broken the count. However, a later segment on the pay-per-view implied that the good referee had instead received a sexual favor from Love's Beautiful People stablemate Madison Rayne in exchange for the bogus decision.

At any rate, the title switch back to Angelina Love comes as a surprise, airing only ten days after Tara's pretaped victory for the title had been shown on Impact. In real time, Tara's title reign lasted 24 days.

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TNA officially renames former Victoria as Tara

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TNA Wrestling's roster page officially confirms that Lisa Marie Varon will be referred to as "Tara." She will work as Tara starting on this week's Impact broadcast.

The former Victoria obviously couldn't use that particular WWE name but one had hoped that she would have been allowed a variant of her real name. Instead, TNA assigned her this new Tara designation, one that it can presumably trademark for its own purposes.

To many fans though, the Tara name either comes off as too lurid or just weak. The name flashes back in my own mind to Willow's meek girlfriend back on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" television series. Neither the lurid nor meek image particularly fits where TNA should want to go with its newest Knockout.

Lisa Marie Varon had enough of a burden during her final months in WWE trying to hold up the credibility of a fledgling Smackdown Divas roster while being played for laughs. The last thing Varon should have to do now is work to overcome an ill-fitting ring moniker.
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