Line #6 Wrestling/Aksana


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4	Živilė Raudonienė (born April 29, 1982) is a UsefulNotes/{{Lithuania}}n former {{Professional Wrestl\|ing}}er, fitness model and bodybuilder best known for working in Wrestling/{{WWE}} as '''Aksana.'''
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6	Born in the small village of Alytus, she began working in fitness from a very young age. At only seventeen, she participated in the IFFB European Fitness Championships - as the youngest participant in the contest. She competed in several more UsefulNotes/{{bodybuilding}} and fitness contests, eventually winning the 2009 IFFB Arnold Classic Competition. Shortly after this win, she was signed to a WWE developmental deal. She first debuted using the ring name 'Olga', but adopted the more familiar one of Aksana within a month. Initially the manager of Eli Cottonwood, she soon stepped into the ring herself. Her time in FCW was quite fruitful, as she defeated Wrestling/RosaMendes to become Queen of FCW and then shortly after claimed the FCW Divas' Championship from Wrestling/AJLee - becoming the first woman to hold both titles at the same time.
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8	Aksana's most memorable time in WWE was part of the infamous all females season of NXT. Under the guidance of {{Wrestling/Goldust}}, Aksana competed for the chance to earn a WWE contract - while also fighting threats of being deported to Lithuania. She was the third woman eliminated from the contest, but soon reappeared on WWE television anyway. This time she was now a FemmeFatale, who appeared in Teddy Long's office to drop {{Innocent Innuendo}}s. Naturally she couldn't be kept away from the ring for too long, and re-joined the women's division.
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10	She was released from WWE in 2014 and retired.
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13	!! Lithuanian Tropes:
14	* ActionGirl: She's a wrestler.
15	* AmazonianBeauty: She was a fitness model and bodybuilder.
16	** AllAmazonsWantHercules: Played with. Of her {{Kayfabe}} romances, the only one that qualifies was the one with [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Antonio Cesaro]].
17	* ArchEnemy:
18	** Wrestling/{{Maryse}} while she was on NXT Season 3.
19	** Kaitlyn became this on the main roster, as Eve ordered her to take her out.
20	* AscendedMeme: Her and Alicia Fox began to be referred to as "Foxsana" by fans for months before commentators started using the name on TV.
21	* BashBrothers: With Wrestling/AJLee, Wrestling/AliciaFox, Wrestling/TaminaSnuka.
22	* BigEater: Despite mocking the other NXT contestants for not taking care of their bodies and eating pancakes, Aksana has shown signs of it. When she brought a mistletoe stalk to Theodore Long and asked what to do with it he told her "what comes naturally" so she ''ate it''. [[DontTryThisAtHome In case you didn't know, mistletoe is a poisonous parasite]] but she suffered no ill effects besides a tingling throat.
23	* TheBully: She sometimes showed signs of this, notably ribbing Brie Bella for Daniel Bryan's lack of success, or hazing Paige for being a rookie.
24	* ButNotTooWhite: Averted. She's notably paler than most of the other Divas and her attractiveness is still acknowledged. She did however eventually start tanning.
25	* CanineCompanion: Her dog Devo, whose picture was part of the set for The Aksana Show. She even named her finisher after him.
26	* {{Catfight}}: Two on PPV. Maryse at ''Bragging Rights'' 2010 and Vickie Guerrero at ''[=WrestleMania=] 28''.
27	* {{Chickification}}: At the same time she was a badass in FCW, on the main roster she was left a crying ball of nerves at the very ''thought'' of Kane.
28	* CitizenshipMarriage: With [=Goldust=] to prevent her from being deported.
29	* ContinuityNod: When she was on NXT Season 3 she attempted to steal the Million Dollar Championship for herself and it was given back to Ted Di Biase Sr. On the Old School Raw in 2014 she was seen in a backstage segment seemingly flirting to Di Biase, who had the title over his shoulder.
30	* DamselInDistress: Her first storyline in FCW had Sweet Papi Sanchez abduct her.
31	* DarkerAndEdgier: In FCW she went from a ditz to a legitimate badass.
32	* DistractedByTheSexy: Sometimes when she was Antonio Cesaro's valet.
33	* {{Double Entendre}}: For a time, her gimmick centered around her making innuendos.
34	* DumbBlonde: On ''[=WWE NXT=]''. Averted as of her redebut on the main roster as she was brunette by that point, although she was still quite dim.
35	* EtTuBrute: For a while she and Alicia Fox were friends. Then after a match went south for Alicia she took it out on Aksana, beating her, emptying a pair of water bottles on her and forcing her to eat popcorn she grabbed a bucket of from the audience after dumping it over her. Bear in mind that all she'd been doing at the time was [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished trying to comfort Alicia after she lost the match]]. In an interview later that week, Aksana remarked when asked about it that she ''thought'' Fox was her friend.
36	* FaceHeelTurn: Twice by betraying a man that loved her. On NXT Season 3 she turned on Goldust after they married and she earned her green card. And on ''Smackdown'' she ended her relationship with Teddy Long in favour of Antonio Cesaro.
37	* FearlessFool: She had a tendency to make fun of the other Divas, not realising that they could (and usually ''did'') kick her ass afterwards.
38	* FemmeFatale: Her character in FCW as Divas' Champion.
39	* FinishingMove: [[KickChick Billion Dollar Kick]], Devo Drop (spinning spinebuster).
40	* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Played with. She has been both a face and heel. Her foreignness was played up more as a face and doesn't really come up much as a heel.
41	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her hysterics about being put in a match with Kane could have been a subtle foreshadowing to her true colours - especially since she turned heel about a month later. By breaking up with Teddy Long in favour of a stronger man.
42	* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: On the last ''Raw'' of 2013 she pinned Nikki Bella - which was only her ''third'' win since she started wrestling again in 2012 - and her first in nine months.
43	* FunnyForeigner: From [=Lithuania=] and possibly the first WWE Superstar or Diva to come from that Baltic country and former TagTeam partner of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Poland}} Polish]]-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
44	* {{Golddigger}}: Was labelled as such after betraying Goldust.
45	* AHeroToHisHometown: Is very popular in her home country, Lithuania.
46	* HiddenDepths: Even if she's quite big and muscly, she's shown that she's flexible enough to do push-ups while folding her legs over her shoulders.
47	* HoodOrnamentHottie: A variation. She would do this pose on the ''ring apron'' when managing Antonio Cesaro.
48	* ImportantHaircut: Her hairstyle switch from blonde to black helped fit the transition between characters - clumsy ditz to ruthless FemmeFatale.
49	* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Sort of when she first started on ''[=SmackDown!=]''. Her gimmick was that of a FunnyForeigner who didn't realize she was dropping innuendos.
50	* KarmaHoudini: Often got away with distracting Wrestling/SantinoMarella and causing him to lose the match.
51	** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: It finally caught up to her after she failed to help Antonio Cesaro win a match. This leads her to being dumped ''in public.''
52	* MsFanservice: Her looks alone got her over immediately in FCW. She competed in several bikini contests while there.
53	** FanservicePack: Her ring gear when she re-debuted on ''[=SmackDown!=]'' (also her FCW gear) was quite modest. After breaking away from Antonio Cesaro, she started wrestling in catsuits and becoming HotterAndSexier. It also seems to have happened again; she still wears the catsuits, but the legs and sleeves of them seem to be optional.
54	* MusclesAreMeaningful: She was a three-time medalist at the Bodybuilding Amateur Championships (2 silver, 1 bronze.)
55	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Is only 5'5 and yet can support her entire body weight on her two arms.
56	* PowerStable: The FCW All-Stars, with [[Wrestling/KarleePerez Maxine]], Wrestling/DamienSandow, [=AJ=] (Lee) and Lucky Cannon.
57	* RecycledInSpace: On NXT a few people referred to her as the Russian Wrestling/TrishStratus.
58	--> "I'm not a Russian, but I do love Trish."
59	** Given her lack of push, she wasn't so much the Russian Trish Stratus as she was the {{Russian\|Reversal}} ''[[RussianReversal Reversal]]'' Trish Stratus.
60	* {{Red Baron}}ess: Several. "The Billion Dollar Baby," "The Lithuanian Witch," "The Sultry Temptress," "The Leather-Clad Lithuanian."
61	* TheRival: [[Wrestling/NaomiWrestler Naomi Knight]] on FCW, which carried over to NXT in which might have been Aksana's best match on WWE television, even though she lost. Kaitlyn once joining the WWE's main roster.
62	* RomanceOnTheSet: InUniverse with [=Goldust=], ''[=SmackDown!=]'' General Manager [[Wrestling/TeddyLong Mr. Theodore R. Long]], and with Antonio Cesaro.
63	* RunningGag:
64	** She frequently likes to mention that people in her home country are beaten with shovels.
65	** One for ''The Aksana Show'' was that she would have a scheduled musical guest who would always cancel at the last minute.
66	* RussianGuySuffersMost: She was the first eliminated from the match mentioned under WardrobeMalfunction below. In fact, she only won ''one'' televised match for the ''entirety'' of 2013. On the December 30 ''Raw'', she teamed with Alicia Fox, Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}}, Wrestling/RosaMendes and Summer Rae to defeat Wrestling/EvaMarie, the Wrestling/BellaTwins, and Wrestling/TheFunkadactyls when Aksana pinned Nikki Bella. Before that, she defeated [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]] on the February 27 (taped January 31), 2013 ''WWE NXT'', which airs on WWE's website. She lost ALL of her other broadcast matches in 2013.
67	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Since returning to a regular wrestling role, she wrestles in catsuits, poses suggestively and typically does a seductive crawl around the ring whenever she feels like it.
68	* SensualSlavs: Lithuanian, but the same idea given ShamelessFanserviceGirl.
69	* {{Sexophone}}: Her {{Leitmotif}} whenever she appeared in Teddy Long's office. When she started wrestling, it became her entrance music too.
70	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her finisher is often incorrectly spelt as the Divo Drop when it's actually the D'''e'''vo Drop - it's named after her dog Devo.
71	* SpyCatsuit: What she has a tendency to wrestle in since being dumped by Antonio Cesaro.
72	* TalkShowWithFists:
73	** (in FCW): "The Aksana Show." A case of AscendedExtra, since she had previously been the {{Sidekick}} on [[Characters/WWEManagers "The Abraham Washington Show"]].
74	** Technically a subversion since (being a [[WouldntHitAGirl Diva]]), fights rarely broke out on it. The one time one did (with Maxine), they simply had a match rather than a brawl.
75	* TheUnpronounceable: Her real name apparently, since The Other Wiki doesn't even try.
76	* TheVamp: A more successful than most WWE examples concerning her pro Goldust, though he takes to pretty much anything that breathes so that's probably why. She married him to get out of being deported and showed no gratitude for it. She attempted to seduce Theodore Long and was mostly successful but did not actually get anything out of it or bring him down in anyway. Her wiles were not enough to get Wrestling/BrodusClay to abandon the Funkadactyls either.
77	* VaporWear: The Funkadactyls d. Aksana and Tamina on the February 5, 2013 ''WWE Main Event'' when Wrestling/{{Naomi\|Wrestler}} hit Aksana with a leg lariat and folded her up for the pin. As a result, it was apparent that Aksana wasn't wearing panties since her butt was visible through her pants.
78	* WardrobeMalfunction: Her left breast popped out during the Divas' 7-on-7 ''Survivor Series''-style Elimination Match on the November 25, 2013 ''Raw,'' however, WWE was able to keep it from appearing on the air via the production department catching it on delay and darkening the live feed. There are pictures online of it.

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