Diva Dirt can reveal exclusively that TNA Knockout Winter, aka Katarina Waters, will make her Pro-Wrestling: EVE debut on July 14th.
Since leaving Europe for the US, Katarina has found fame as Katie Lea in WWE and as Winter in TNA, where she became the first European to hold the Knockouts Championship.
As one of Europe’s most successful exports to the US wrestling scene, it’s only fitting that EVE, which prides itself in an all-European female roster, welcomes Katarina home to Europe at its next show, EVE: Special Edition.
The July 14th card will feature male guest matches from EVE’s promotional partners, who often place EVE guest matches on their cards, also.
Details below:
[notice]Pro-Wrestling:EVE returns with a ‘Special Edition’ live at The Delphi Centre, Sudbury, Suffolk on Saturday July 14th, 2012!
Originally scheduled to be a live iPPV, EVE were recently notified that the iPPV supplying company were unfortunately unable to keep to the agreed dates due to an unexpected scheduling conflict. This put EVE management in an awkward spot due to an obviously reduced income for the night in a very niche market. Our choices were either a) move the date of the iPPV, b) cancel or c) run as a taped show. Naturally we opted to move the date at first, however, we were unable to find a sufficient venue within the time required time frame. The idea of running a single date instead of a weekender (The Delphi Club was unable to accomodate a second date at short notice), as EVE usually does, was one that would hurt EVE financially and potentially risk the company due to the restricted income without iPPV and thus we were realistically left with option of cancelling.
But as we all know, we’ve had our hands forced before and we always come up with something! We REALLY hated the idea of not running a full show again until November 10 and after speaking to several fans at shows that featured EVE guest matches (such as at BritWrestFest, Southside, IPW:UK) we knew we had to do at least something! We therefore have worked with several individuals in making July 14 possible, and so on Saturday, July 14th, Pro-Wrestling: EVE will present EVE: SPECIAL EDITION.
The show will feature three guest matches from several of the top male promotions in Europe, helping expose the EVE brand to those who perhaps would otherwise not give women’s wrestling a chance due to the way it had been portrayed on television, as a compliment to a ‘Special Edition’ full Pro-Wrestling: EVE DVD taping that will see Alpha Female defend the Pro-Wrestling:EVE Championship, plus the return of two former EVE Professionals and the EVE debut of former WWE Diva and TNA Knockouts Champion – “Winter” Katarina Waters!
Pro-Wrestling: EVE will be making more announcements over the coming days including announcing the opponent of the former Knockouts Champion, in addition to the two returns and matches set for July 14 EVE: SPECIAL EDITION![/notice]
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7 Comments
at 8:55 pm
Nice! I’ll be glad to see her there
I’d like to see a match between her & Jenny Sjodin, JS needs some more high profile competition
at 9:04 pm
I feel like if Katie returned to the WWE she would be a Beth character (Strong, dominant). But Tna treats her better.
Mikas Reply:
June 4th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Lol. Treats her better?
TNA gives her on average 2 bookings a month (usually only houseshows). For a wrestler who only gets paid by appearance thats not enough to pay your monthly bills.
Nostalgia Reply:
June 4th, 2012 at 10:56 pm
WWE at least pays you regardless
at 2:48 am
I hope TNA still has plans to at least try and use Winter in the future (if they’re so against ‘unrealistic’ gimmicks now, then at least let her come back as herself). Otherwise it seems they’re just letting her contract run out rather than releasing her (don’t know why).
As far as being ‘treated’ well. She definitely got top treatment last year, probably due to Russo pushing her, but now that Russo’s gone, it doesn’t seem like Prichard really likes her much (same story in WWE perhaps), so she’s basically getting no TV appearances at the moment. Which is abysmal to be honest since she’s probably the most diverse of all the Knockouts they have.
Also no one actually knows outside of TNA (and WWE lol) what sort of contract she is on, so she might be getting paid to do nothing anyway.
at 12:27 pm
Brb, I need time to clean my keyboard after hearing this news. =-X
But toilet humour aside, this is a brilliant pick-up for Eve to be fair. The possibilities are endless for who she can face! Nikki, Carmel, Sara, Jenny, April, Alpha… but I’d like to see her face Nikki, Carmel or maybe a returning Becky James the most, even if Becky loses I’d still pay to see that match.
at 2:02 am
Kat is a credit to any roster of talented female wrestlers. What she may lack as far as move set is concerned, she makes up for it with her toughness, her attitude and her sexy presence.
Winter was also recently involved in a hot match against Melina for Family Wrestling Entertainment (FWE) and Lita was the special guest referee. You can catch their entrances on youtube. It’s great to see Kat doing indy appearances and rubbing elbows with the popular Lita and the exotic Melina. Three of my all time favorite divas, too bad it didn’t happen in WWE, but you can see the crowd is happy to see them as they chant for Lita to take on the both. Such a great match!