UPDATE ON FORMER WWE & TNA STAR LISA MARIE VARON AND HER RECENT SHOTS AT TNA

Just a week after she scathingly ripped apart TNA President Dixie Carter for disrespecting her and for the company disrespecting her restaurant, former WWE and TNA star Lisa Marie Varon is no longer running the day to day of her restaurant, The Squared Circle in Chicago, IL.

The eatery is still being run by Varon's husband. The Chicago Tribube noted that Varon is moving to California due to her mother being ill.

While the change doesn't have anything to do with the podcast appearance, it is interesting to note that when one researches into Varon's claims on the Ross podcast, some of her timeline doesn't hold up.

While Varon spoke about being upset that TNA staffers plugged another eatery, the reality is that Varon's own restaurant hadn't opened at that time. It opened following the 3/14/13 TNA taping with the company sending several talents to appear. It would have been impossible for TNA to promote via Varon's restaurant, since it wasn't even open before the taping....and that the taping in question was actually a 45 minute drive from where Squared Circle is located.

As far as the other eatery that TNA did work with and plugged via social media, research shows that was Jerseyâ€™s Pizza & Grill in Hoffman Estates, IL, the same market that TNA ran their March 2013 TV taping in, which again, is a 45 minute drive from Varon's restaurant. In checking around, I am told that TNA worked with Jersey's as part of a promotional deal brokered by the Sears Centre, the venue they taped TV in, to help push the taping.

It's also interesting to note that while Varon complained that she wasn't on the promotional poster used for the event (despite being from the area), Varon was used for a number of local promotional interviews with newspaper, radio and local TV news outlets, many of which also plugged her restaurant.

There is some additional irony here. TNA booked Varon to do a signing there, so Varon herself appeared in the same outlet she was upset TNA promoted...as a promotional appearance.

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