PROFILE
BIOGRAPHY
Katarina Waters (born November 10, 1977) is a female professional wrestler from the United Kingdom better known by her ring name, Nikita. She is currently signed by World Wrestling Entertainment, where she's assigned to Ohio Valley Wrestling and wrestles under the ring name Katie Lea, where she became the OVW Women's Champion.
Outside of wrestling Waters has started acting, doing scenes for a British independent action movie by Utopian Pictures, Tough Justice. Nikita plays Agent Milan in the film.
Nikita began training in late 1999 for Kent-based promotion NWA-UK Hammerlock after she had searched for a school on the internet. Working at the British territory of the National Wrestling Alliance allowed Nikita to participated in the ITV Meridian show Trans-Atlantic Wrestling Challenge, which was a British vs. American tournament held on January 4, 2000 in the UK for British television, with wrestlers from the NWA. During the show Nikita would win it's Women's Championship Cup.
Nikita went on to wrestled for promotions all over the world, one highlight came when she wrestled Sherri Martel at an NAWA show in Germany, but her biggest exposer was back in England where she began wrestling for the Frontier Wrestling Alliance in 2002.
While in FWA she met with a young up-and-coming FWA star, Hade Vansen, someone she would tag teamed with on occasion. She would also face off in fueds with Sweet Saraya, who entered the FWA rather unceremoniously when she attacked Nikita from behind while she was supposed to be guest announcing. As well as feuding with Paul Travell and The Family.
In 2004 she left the company, due to personal reasons, and took a little time out.
In 2005 she reappeared on the UK wrestling scene, and went on to compete around Europe. She became France's Queens of Chaos Women's Champion, which would award her the moniker "Queen of Chaos". During this time she would also make appearances for Italy's Nu-Wrestling Evolution in matches against Vanessa Harding.
In early 2006 Nikita would come back to the FWA and go on to help her former tag patner "The South City Thriller" Hade Vansen pinned Joe Legend to win The Champions Series Final at New Frontiers on February 5. Vansen took Alex Shane’s FWA British Heavyweight Championship in this five-way main event which aside from Vansen, Shane and Legend, also featured "The Phoenix" Jody Fleisch and "The Wonderkid" Jonny Storm.
Katrina Waters signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment during May 2006 following tryouts at a WWE UK TV taping. She would be leaving the UK for the United States the following month but would first hand in her Queens of Chaos Championship after first retaining it, in her last European independent match, on May 8th.
Katarina Waters would join WWE's Ohio Valley Wrestling training centre, making her OVW debut on August 23, 2006 at an OVW TV taping under a new name Katie Lea defeating Melody in a dark match. Waters, as Lea, continued training in OVW throughout 2006, feuding with OVW divas Beth Phoenix, ODB and Serena.
At the November 1, 2006 OVW TV Tapings, Katie Lea defeated Beth Phoenix, Ariel, Roni Jonah, Melody, Jenny Mae, ODB and Serena in a 8-Woman Gauntlet Match to capture the OVW Women's Championship. Lea would also defend her title in the first ever Divas ladder match in OVW History where she wrestled Beth Phoenix before feuding with Cherry.