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title: "Former Champion Returns To Impact"
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published: "2018-05-11T21:00:00Z"
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# Former Champion Returns To Impact

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Former Knockouts Division champion, Winter, has returned to **Impact Wrestling**, but she’s back with a new name and a new role.

Now styling herself as Katarina, she has returned as Grado’s girlfriend, with her return coming on the May 10 taping of Impact.

Katarina, real name Katarina Waters, worked for **WWE** between 2008 and 2010 as Katie Lea Burchill, before being released from her contract.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNWJDPkuNg

After being released from **WWE** in April 2010, she joined **TNA** in August 2010 adopting the new ring name Winter.

During her first year in **TNA**, she managed to win both of the promotion’s women’s championships, first teaming with Angelina Love to win the Knockouts Tag Team Championship in December 2010 and then winning the Knockouts Championship in August 2011.

She departed **TNA** in 2012, and following a long spell on the Independent circuit, is back on **Impact** TV.

## Are you happy to see her back on Impact? Let us know in the comments.