32 Facts About Katarina Waters

Katarina Waters is best known for her time with Impact Wrestling under the ring names Katarina or Winter and for her time in WWE under the ring name Katie Lea Burchill.

Katarina Waters spent many years on the independent circuit, particularly in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance, where she used the ring name Nikita.

At a young age, Katarina Waters read an article about the main event of WrestleMania VI and believed the Ultimate Warrior's mysterious origins to be true.

However, the show's style was catered more towards British wrestling than sports entertainment and Katarina Waters 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 UK Hammerlock and being trained by Jon Ryan.

Originally, Katarina Waters used the name Kat but after Stacy Carter began using this name in the World Wrestling Federation, she changed her name to Nikita after the television program La Femme Nikita.

However, the match was badly reviewed backstage and Katarina Waters began training twice a week to improve herself.

Katarina Waters spoke about this moment in Alternative Wrestling Magazine saying "So the crowd saw what I was about to do and started reacting and cheering before I had even done any-thing, and just that moment standing up there in the light and hearing that was, well, let's just say I wanted to stay up there forever".

Katarina Waters returned in October 2005 in a losing effort against Simply Luscious.

Katarina Waters was victorious on the next show in a six-man tag team match, with her and Luscious on opposing teams.

Katarina Waters defended the title all over France and in Switzerland until almost exactly a year later when, after defending the belt against Skye in a two out of three falls match, she announced she had exclusively signed with WWE and had to relinquish the title undefeated.

Katarina Waters returned to GSW for Night In Motion VII: A Few Good Men in July 2006 to take on the promotion's other premiere female wrestler and namesake, Blue Nikita.

The Greek Nikita won the match and since then Katarina Waters has used the name Katie Lea instead.

Just before she lost her Nikita name to Blue Nikita, Katarina Waters took part in the video tapings for Shimmer Women Athletes in May 2006.

Katarina Waters held the title for 212 days, giving her the longest single and combined reigns until Melody went over that mark in June 2009.

Katarina Waters then began a feud with Cherry Pie after two successful title defences against her resulted in an assault from Pie's stablemates The Untouchables until Jon Bolen and Ryan Reeves saved her.

Katarina Waters lost the title a week later to Josie in a dark match because WWE had severed ties with OVW and called her up to their programming.

Katarina Waters closed out the year by appearing tag team matches, regularly teaming with Jillian Hall.

On 23 August 2010 Katarina Waters wrestled in a tryout dark match for TNA at the tapings of their Impact television show, losing to Madison Rayne; it was reported on 15 October that TNA had signed her to a contract.

On 25 February 2011 Katarina Waters made her debut at World Independent Ladies Division in a in ring segment with Tab Jackson and Aiden Riley.

On 4 August 2011, Katarina Waters defeated Tab Jackson in a no holds barred match to win the vacant WILD World Championship.

On 14 May 2011 at the FWE Meltdown pay-per-view, Katarina Waters made her debut for Family Wrestling Entertainment, defeating Rosita.

On 4 October 2012 at the Back 2 Brooklyn pay-per-view, Waters, under the name Katarina Leigh, teamed up with Maria in losing effort to The Beautiful People in a tag team match.

At Impact Wrestling One Night Only: Zero Fear which aired on 15 June 2018, Katarina Waters unsuccessfully challenged Su Yung for the Impact Knockouts Championship.

Katarina Waters made her debut for Women of Wrestling during their taping in October 2018, under the name The Temptress, as she aligned herself with The Dagger.

Katarina Waters appeared in the 2021 horror film, The Amityville Moon, as the evil Sister Francis.

Katarina Waters was born and raised in West Germany before relocating to England to attend university.

Katarina Waters graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with honours in film and drama.

Katarina Waters appears, along with Shelly Martinez, in the music video for "Miss Outta Control" by Electrolightz.

Katarina Waters appeared on the pilot showcase programme Comedy Lab in 2002.

Katarina Waters's role saw her performing wrestling moves during "Karma Chameleon", as sung by the then relatively unknown Russell Brand.

Katarina Waters favorite's are wrestlers Jonny Storm, Darren Burridge, Alex Shane, television shows La Femme Nikita and Smallville, Katarina Waters cited that "I am totally obsessed with Lex Luthor".

On 7 July 2022, Katarina Waters announced via Instagram that she became an American citizen.