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Former World Wrestling Entertainment pro wrestler Victoria, whose real name is Lisa Marie Varon, will be competing in mixed martial arts
in the next year, according to the Dayton Daily News.

Varon, who is 38 years-old, is also a former bodybuilding and fitness competitor, earning her IFBB pro fitness card in 1999.

She left the WWE earlier this year and joined its main competitor Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. She currently wrestles under the ring name Tara.

TNA’s non-restrictive contract will permit her to both wrestle and compete in MMA at the same time.

Varon is one of several pro wrestlers to make the transition to MMA, including Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley.

“Obviously, with the exposure from the WWE, she already had the marquee value,” said her manager J.T. Stewart. “She has the name. Women’s MMA is just starting to peak, and with her built-in fan base, she’ll have lot of opportunities with endorsements, sponsorships, autograph signings and card shows. Plus, she’s also just very athletic. We’ve seen Lashley and Lesnar cross over and do very well in MMA. I’d expect no less from her.”

Stewart and Varon are looking at Strikeforce fighter Kim Couture as a possible opponent for Varon’s debut fight.

“That’s definitely a fight we’re interested in,” said Stewart.

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Today George Romero’s Survival of the Dead launched a huge attack on the web by opening up several different things. They have official launched a Twitter and MySpace page and also tossed in a pretty cool behind the scenes video. Check out that video below and be sure to stick around for more as we hear it.

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Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood’s youth impresario of the 1980s and ’90s who captured and cornered the teen and pre-teen market with such favorites as “Home Alone,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” died Thursday, a spokeswoman said. He was 59.

Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family.

A native of Lansing, Mich., who later moved to suburban Chicago and set much of his work there, Hughes rose from ad writer to comedy writer to silver screen champ with his affectionate and idealized portraits of teens, whether the romantic and sexual insecurity of “Sixteen Candles,” or the J.D. Salinger-esque rebellion against conformity in “The Breakfast Club.”

Hughes’ ensemble comedies helped make stars out of Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy and many other young performers. He also scripted the phenomenally popular “Home Alone,” which made little-known Macaulay Culkin a sensation as the 8-year-old accidentally abandoned by his vacationing family, and wrote or directed such hits as “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” and “Uncle Buck.”

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Smallville is jumping on the zombie bandwagon.

Yesterday, we told you about the upcoming Medium-Night of The Living Dead mash-up. Now comes word that Clark Kent will be dealing with the undead in a season nine episode of Smallville.

The ep, called “Rabid,” will see a virus infecting the city of Metropolis that turns people into zombies. Click through to find out which two Smallville regulars will get infected.

The series most appealing ladies (sorry Chloe!) Tess Mercer and Lois Lane will reportedly be infected by the zombie plague. Actor Cameron Bancroft (24) will play Dr. Coats, a virologists working to either strengthen or stop the plague – we’re really not sure yet.

After Marvel Zombies, the Zombieland hype and the upcoming Star Wars zombie novel, I might be sick of the walking dead once this ep makes it to air. I’ll still watch it, of course. I wouldn’t want to miss watching Clark possibly use his heat vision to decapitate a walking corpse.