Renowned fitness model Zivile Radouniene has officially been added to the FCW roster, going under the name of Aksana. She is now listed on the company’s official website, you can see her profile picture to your left.
Radouniene signed a contract with developmental earlier this year, however news of her signing only became apparent to the wrestling press after first being covered here on Diva Dirt last month.
We have learned that Zivile was signed in the summer. John Laurinaitis, Vice President of Talent Relations in WWE, was reportedly familiar with her modelling work so that could explain how her signing came about.
Interesting to note, Zivile is 27 years old which is somewhat older compared to the women WWE have signed to developmental deals in the past, they tend to be in their early 20s.
The FCW website has also added a profile picture for Trinity McCray, now known as Naomi Night.
They have also removed Alicia Fox’s profile which suggests that she has officially graduated to the main roster. Savannah and Rosa Mendes, meanwhile remain listed.
November 7, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Whew…I’m glad that’s her name in FCW instead of the name she used in October (Olga). That was an epic fail.
As a fan of the fitness industry, I’m pulling for Zivile (Aksana) to do well in FCW and hopefully be called to the WWE roster.
November 7, 2009 at 8:53 pm
She still reminds me of Pamela Anderson…
I don’t think they look similar, but people will definitely be comparing her to Maryse.
November 7, 2009 at 9:21 pm
WWE has to many blonds in FCW,I think it’s time to start cutting some of them because they all look the same
and no,she looks nothing like Pamala anderson
November 7, 2009 at 9:31 pm
There are only two blondes in FCW.
November 7, 2009 at 9:37 pm
I dont see why it matters what color hair they have. As long as they develop a recognizable character that sets them apart from ‘standard’ blondes. Natalya, Beth Phoenix, Kelly Kelly, Michelle McCool, Jillian and Maryse are all blondes, but you can clearly recognize who is who in the ring.
November 7, 2009 at 9:50 pm
What crap some people speak about “too many blondes”, imagine saying there are too many blondes in FCW, when there are only 2. It doesn’t matter what hair colour they have, what skin colour they have or any of that superficial things what matters is talent. And I hope she proves to have talent fitting for the wrestling business. As she is certainly a big talent in bodybuilding and fitness, having won the Arnold Classic this year.
November 7, 2009 at 9:57 pm
never mind my comment,it felt like more to me
November 7, 2009 at 10:32 pm
She kind of reminds me of The Bride of Chucky in that picture.
November 7, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Hopefully she brings something unique to the table.
But her picture makes her look like she smelled something awful.
November 7, 2009 at 11:17 pm
only there are two but somtaims are three
aksana and Courtney Taylor (Beverly Mullins)
somtimes tiffany
November 8, 2009 at 5:22 am
Question to Melanie or anyone else that knows!! So what happened with Jemma Palmer??
November 8, 2009 at 11:31 am
Glad I Pointed It Out To You Melanie Lol!
November 8, 2009 at 12:08 pm
jcristo wrote:
“Question to Melanie or anyone else that knows!! So what happened with Jemma Palmer??”
A few sites have reported that she is waiting for a visa before moving to FCW, but that was never confirmed. That was even on her wikipedia profile a while ago, but was edited out recently because it didnt have a footnote. I do know that the reports of her debut were false, she never trained there yet.
November 8, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Question to Melanie what happened with rachel carr?¿
November 8, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Jemma was signed and had been training in FCW for a brief while but I’m not sure what’s happened since. The last time I spoke to her, she was back in the UK. Could be visa issues, I’m not sure.
Rachael Carr was never signed to a contract and was only in FCW for a 5 day trial workout. She decided to sell her story to The Sun newspaper here in the UK for publicity saying that she had been signed & was going to be a Diva. All false. She was never signed, never seen again after those 5 days and was only looking for publicity.
November 8, 2009 at 5:52 pm
I can answer the Jemma Palmer question, i speak to Jemma from time to time and she IS signed with WWE, and is awaiting her Visa which she hopes to get before Christmas.
November 8, 2009 at 10:30 pm
First off all if we are comparing to to current celebs she reminds me off Sarah Platt from Corrie (UK fans will know who am talking about).
But Mikas is right , it should not matter what colour off Hair the Divas have, if they are good enough to Wrestle then they should be giving the chance to show this. The only Problem is Vince LOVES Blondes, thats why 90% off the Diva roster are blonde, whever they can wrestle or not. But he does let Burnetts wrestle to, i mean look at Melina and Mickie James they are 2 off the best Divas WWE has today. But i agree (after all am a redhead) there is far to many Blondes in WWE (and like Mikas said you CAN tell them apart).
I think we need to go bk to what it was like in the early 00′s , where we had Divas with all 3 types of hair colour, and that the Divas who could Wrestle were used in the same manor as the TOP guys in WWE no matter there colour off hair, and people like Stacy and Torrie (but today it would be the likes off the bella twins and Kelly Kelly) did have matchs but used in a way that people like Lita and Trish (today it would be the likes off Mickie , Melina , Beth , Natalya and Gail Kim ) could go out and prove that , hey just cos we are women does not mean we stand at ringside all day long and look pretty , we can give the guys a run for there money and just be as good as the likes off the Rock, Triple H , HBK, Undertaker, John Cena , Randy Orton etc.
November 8, 2009 at 11:14 pm
She looks cool. Does anyone know what type of gimmick they might have the two ( her and Naomi ) doing?
November 9, 2009 at 12:19 am
with Jemma Palmer coming to FCW soon, it will be 3 legit Female Wrestlers that the WWE hired from the Indie Circuit along with 5 models in FCW
Zivile’s new ring name ”Aksana” reminds me of the name of one of the characters from the Street Fighter video games which it is Akuma