History Wrestling / KatarinaWaters

* SingleTargetSexuality: Winter had this towards Angelina Love, though they weren't above trying to seduce Eric Young so they could take the Knockout Tag Team titles off him and ODB.

* WorthyOpponent: After Phoenix lost the "title belt" OBD introduced, she attacked Serena Deeb to ensure Katie Lea would be the "next" champion, though Phoenix then proclaimed she never lost the belt and introduced ''another''. Was acknowledged as this by Wrestling/{{Beth|Phoenix}} after winning their OVW ladder match to crown an official women's champion and put a stop to it all. Beth interrupted the presentation of the title belts to Katie just so she could do it herself.

* AscendedFanboy: She was a fan of American wrestling before she had even watched a show and didn't even know pro wrestling existed in Europe. She wasn't much of a fan of the local product when she first discovered it either but eventually sought out Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA UK Hammerlock to get training anyway.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: As Winter, she's been this to the likes of Wrestling/AngelinaLove and Wrestling/IvelisseVelez, to varying results.

'''Katarina Leigh Waters''' (b. 1980) is a UsefulNotes/{{German|y}}-raised [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} English]] {{professional wrestl|ing}}er and actress best known for her work in Wrestling/{{WWE}} as '''Katie Lea (Burchill)''' and for Wrestling/{{TNA}} as '''Winter'''.

Waters made her wrestling debut in the year 2000 originally using the name '''Kat''', but once WWF Diva Miss Kitty (Wrestling/StacyCarter) became The Kat, she changed her name to '''Nikita''' after the [[Series/LaFemmeNikita titular character from the television series]]. A mainstay in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance and other British/European indies, Nikita very quickly found herself winning British Women's Championships and was even the original Queen of Chaos in France. She became known in the Americas through PGWA and became '''Katie Lea''' after signing with WWE in 2005, having stopped using the name "Nikita" after being allowed to work a return match in Germany by WWE's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling, who also let her show up in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}. She quickly became one of the cornerstones of the OVW women's division, becoming a two-time OVW Women's Champion and even competing in and winning the first ever televised Women's ladder match against Beth Phoenix for the title.

She later resurfaced in 2010-2011 when TNA introduced the character of '''Winter''', a strange admirer of Wrestling/AngelinaLove who reveled in smoke and mirrors and who believed that she and Angelina were lovers in past lives. This culminated in a storyline where Winter and Wrestling/VelvetSky, Love's partner in Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople, fought for Love's allegiance, with Winter's magical trickery winning out in the end and bringing Love to her side. Along the way she took Sky's place in winning the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship once with Love, then went on to feud with Wrestling/MickieJames (who incidentally was also Katie Lea's first and only feud on the ''Raw'' brand where she had any real focus) over the singles Knockout Championship, which they traded back and forth a couple of times before Winter and Love both slowly but surely fell down the card and quietly disbanded upon being released in summer 2012.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarina_Waters The Other Wiki]].

* SmurfettePrinciple: Nikita frequently found herself the lone woman wrestling among men in FWA. [[{{Badass}} And more than held her own.]]

* {{Badass}}:
** Nikita wrestled men more often than she did other women.
** Katie Lea in OVW was perfectly willing to compete in a freaking ''ladder match''.
** Early in her run as a Burchill, she actually got in the ring and helped Paul wrestle Super Crazy.
** Winter dominated her early Knockouts performances against the likes of Wrestling/MadisonRayne and [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Tara]].

* PsychoLesbian: Well, Winter was very warm and sweet to Angelina Love, and psycho to everyone else. After they quietly fell out off-screen, though, she became [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Tara-sexual]] in a match against Tara on ''Xplosion'' which wouldn't seem too far off being compared to any match Wrestling/{{Paige}} and Wrestling/{{Natalya|Neidhart}} have nowadays.

* BloodMagic: Spent some time beating Mickie James quiet a bit by spraying this into her eyes.

'''Katarina Leigh Waters''' (b. 1980) is a UsefulNotes/{{German|y}}-raised [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} English]] {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and actress best known for her work in Wrestling/{{WWE}} as '''Katie Lea (Burchill)''' and for Wrestling/{{TNA}} as '''Winter'''.

Waters made her wrestling debut in the year 2000 originally using the name '''Kat''', but once WWF Diva Miss Kitty (Stacy Carter) became The Kat, she changed her name to '''Nikita''' after the [[Series/LaFemmeNikita titular character from the television series]]. A mainstay in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance and other British/European indies, Nikita very quickly found herself winning British Women's Championships and was even the original Queen of Chaos in France. She became known in the Americas through PGWA and became '''Katie Lea''' after signing with WWE in 2005, having stopped using the name "Nikita" after being allowed to work a return match in Germany by WWE's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling, who also let her show up in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}. She quickly became one of the cornerstones of the OVW women's division, becoming a two-time OVW Women's Champion and even competing in and winning the first ever televised Women's ladder match against Beth Phoenix for the title.

* OneSteveLimit: Nikita started going by Katie Lea ever since she met and was defeated by Blue Nikita in German Stampede Wrestling. It was just as well since OVW also had a Nikita Fink. Before that she was previously known as 'The Kat' but changed it when Stacy Carter used that name in WWE.

* DarkIsEvil: The entire "witch" character especially.

* DemotedToExtra: In WWE this happened as soon as it became clear Wrestling/VinceMcMahon wouldn't get to pull the trigger on the IncestSubtext for the Burchill storyline. Took longer to happen in TNA, but it caused her storyline with Angelina Love was ended off-screen.
* DominoMask: As "The Beautiful Nightmare" on WWECW. Also counts as PaperThinDisguise, since its ''possible'' (though unlikely) people may have given the masked "Ripper" the benefit of the doubt when he proclaimed he wasn't Paul Burchill if she hadn't been there with him.

* VitriolicBestBuds: She and Paul were more or less this to his mentor Wrestling/WilliamRegal, thanks to a certain pirate gimmick in his past.

* {{Irony}}, her manipulation of Angelina Love had more in common with voodoo lore than anything done by TNA's "Voodoo Queen" Roxxi Laveaux, who tried to use her hoodoo magic to ''help'' Angelina Love and Velvet Sky rather than split them up.

* {{Kissgusting}}: Fell limp on Earl Hebner at a TNA House Show after a punch from Mickie James. Rather than shove her off of him and check her arm/start a count, he woke Winter up with a kiss.

** Did this to scare off Sarita as well as reveal that [[NotSoImaginaryFriend she wasn't just a figment of Love's imagination]].

%% * ReincarnationRomance: Winter and Angelina Love.

%% * {{Yandere}}: Toward Angelina Love.

* ArchEnemy

* CrowdChant

* CutShort

* '''DeathFromAbove''': Nikita is best known for a 25-foot balcony dive onto five men during a six-person tag team match at an Wrestling/{{R|ingOfHonor}}OH\Frontier Wrestling Alliance inter promotional event (FWA Frontiers of Honor 2003).

* NameOfPower

* [[ReincarnationRomance Reincarnation Roman]][[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship tic Two-Girl Friendship]]: Winter and Angelina Love.

* TheRival

* StealthHiBye

* [[UnrelatedBrothers Unrelated Brother and Sister]]: With Paul Burchill Did we mention that prior to Raw, the two were portrayed as a romantic couple?

* VoiceOfTheLegion

* {{Yandere}}: Toward Angelina Love.

Waters made her wrestling debut in the year 2000 originally using the name '''Kat''', but once WWF Diva Miss Kitty (Stacy Carter) became The Kat, she changed her name to '''Nikita''' after the [[Series/LaFemmeNikita titular character from the television series]]. A mainstay in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance and other British/European indies, Nikita very quickly found herself winning British Women's Championships and was even the original Queen of Chaos in France. She signed with WWE in 2005 and debuting in America under the name '''Katie Lea''', having stopped using the name "Nikita" after being allowed to work a return match in Germany by WWE's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling, who also let her show up in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}. She quickly became one of the cornerstones of the OVW women's divison, becoming a two-time OVW Women's Champion and even competing in and winning the first ever televised Women's ladder match against Beth Phoenix for the title.

** Jane Childs put [[CarnivalOfKillers a bounty on her head]] in FWA after she went undefeated for two years. The bounty was eventually claimed by "Sweet" Saraya, who put Nikita out for a year following a tombstone pile driver(taking on her head literally). She sees Saraya as her main obstacle in the UK.

** Jane Childs put [[CarnivalOfKillers a bounty on her head]] in FWA after she went undefeated for two years. The bounty was eventually claimed by "Sweet" Saraya, who put Nikita out for a year following a tombstone pile driver(taking on her head literally).

* {{Irony}}, her manipulation of Angelina Love had more in common with voodoo lore than anything TNA's "Voodoo Queen" Roxxi Laveaux did.

* {{Heel}}: Primarily wherever she went. She worked her first ''SHIMMER'' match as a {{face}} but [[FaceHeelTurn turned heel]] in her second. Likewise she was a face by default in TNA but was inevitably going to turn heel. That being said she has worked as a face in FWE and possibly could have become one in WWE (she was going to get moved to Smackdown
and Lay-Cool were the top heels there, so a face turn could have been planned).

* {{Heel}}: Primarily wherever she went. She worked her first ''SHIMMER'' match as a {{face}} but turned heel in her second. Likewise she was a face by default in TNA but
was inevitably going to turn heel. That being said she has worked as a face in FWE and possibly could have become one in WWE (she was going to get moved to Smackdown

* ButNotTooWhite: When in TNA she got "get a tan" chanted at her. She had previously tanned normally in other promotions.

* CrowdChant: "Katie Can't Wrestle!" (suffice to say, OVW's audience didn't take to her very quickly)

* IAmVeryBritish: Her real accent is more or less the Germanic version of an RP accent since she was raised in Germany, but when playing a character she poshes up considerably. Any non-kayfabe interviews will show a big difference between her real accent and the one she uses in promos. Possibly justified because in professional wrestling, the wrestlers are taught to speak slowly in promos and enunciate so that the audience can hear them clearly.

Waters made her wrestling debut in the year 2000 originally using the name '''Kat''', but once WWF Diva Miss Kitty (Stacy Carter) became The Kat, she changed her name to '''Nikita''' after the [[Series/LaFemmeNikita titular character from the television series]]. A mainstay in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance and other British/European indies, Nikita very quickly found herself winning British Women's Championships and was even the original Queen of Chaos in France. She signed with WWE in 2005 and debuting in America under the name '''Katie Lea''', having stopped using the name "Nikita" after being allowed to work a return match in Germany by WWE's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling, who also let her show up in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}. She quickly became one of the cornerstones of the OVW women's divison, becoming a two-time OVW Women's Champion and even competing in and winning the first ever Women's ladder match against Beth Phoenix for the title.

* GimmickMatches: Competed in the first ever women's Ladder Match in OVW. It later made it to a WWE DVD about the gimmick.

* {{Heel}}: Primarily wherever she went. She worked her first ''SHIMMER'' match as a face but turned heel in her second. Likewise she was a face by default in TNA but

* AnIcePerson: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin As Winter.]]

* IAmVeryBritish: According to Kat, her true accent is very Germanic but to American ears, it sounds like she's invoking this trope.

* OneSteveLimit: Nikita started going by Katie Lea ever since she met and was defeated by Blue Nikita in German Stampede Wrestling. It was just as well since OVW also had a Nikita Fink.

* EvilBrit: Very.

* DominoMask: As "The Beautiful Nightmare" on WWECW. Also counts as PaperThinDisguise, since its ''possible'' (though unlikely) people may not have given the masked "Ripper" the benefit of the doubt when he proclaimed he wasn't Paul Burchill if she hadn't been there with him.