Katie Lea
Waters in September 2008
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| Birth name | Katarina Leigh Waters |
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| Born |
10 November 1980 Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, West Germany |
| Residence | Louisville, Kentucky, United States |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | The Beautiful Nightmare Kat Katarina Katarina Leigh Katie Lea Katie Lea Burchill Kat La Noir Kat Waters Nikita Winter |
| Billed height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Billed weight | 140 lb (64 kg) |
| Billed from | Chelsea, England |
| Trained by | Jon Ryan Mark Sloan Alex Shane Ohio Valley Wrestling |
| Debut | 2000 |
Katarina Leigh Waters (born 10 November 1980) is a German-born English professional wrestler, valet and actress. She is best known for her time in World Wrestling Entertainment as Katie Lea (Burchill) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Winter. Prior to signing with WWE, she spent many years on the independent circuit, particularly in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance, where she used the ring name Nikita.
After signing with WWE, she competed in their former developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling, where she became a two time Women's Champion before being called up to the main roster. After being released from WWE in April 2010, Waters joined TNA in August 2010 adopting the new ring name Winter. During her first year in TNA, she managed to win both of the promotion's women's championships, first teaming with Angelina Love to win the Knockouts Tag Team Championship in December 2010 and then winning the Knockouts Championship in August 2011.
At a young age, Waters read an article about the main event of WrestleMania VI and believed the Ultimate Warrior's mysterious origins to be true. When she came to England at 18, she was under the impression that wrestling companies only existed in America until she saw a local show advertised in London. However, the show's style was catered more towards British wrestling than sports entertainment and Waters once again retired thoughts of becoming involved in wrestling until she saw Alex Shane and Dominator on The Jerry Springer Show with their more outrageous gimmicks and became interested again, seeking out National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) UK Hammerlock and being trained by Jon Ryan. Originally, Waters used the name Kat but after Stacy Carter began using this name in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), she changed her name to Nikita after the television program La Femme Nikita. After being trained Waters made her debut in February 2000 on ITV Meridian's TransAtlantic Wrestling Challenge, a tournament between British and American wrestlers of the NWA where she won the Women's Championship.
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