Aksana

Zivile Raudoniene (born April 19, 1982 in Lithuania) is perhaps best known by her ring name Aksana. She is currently wrestling in Florida Championship Wrestling and is also a contestant on WWE NXT Season 3, where is mentored by Goldust.

Early career
Zivile worked as a successful bodybuilder, fitness model and personal trainer and she won the 2009 IFBB Arnold Classic Contest and has competed in numerous other bodybuilding contests. Zivile has been working out since the year 1996 in her home of Lithuania and after a year she entered her first fitness contest. At the age of 17 she was the youngest participant in the 1999 IFBB European Fitness Championships.

Florida Championship Wrestling (2009–present)
On October 5, 2009, it was reported that World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) had signed Zivile to a developmental contract with WWE and was training at Florida Championship Wrestling their developmental facility in Florida. Zivile made her FCW debut under the ring name Olga at a recent FCW house show in a Divas Halloween Costume contest. Her ring name was soon changed to Aksana, and she began to manage Eli Cottonwood. She made her in ring debut at a FCW house show on January 15, 2010 when she teamed with AJ Lee, Savannah and Eve Torres to defeat Serena, Naomi Night, Courtney Taylor, and Liviana. She made her in-ring debut in March 2010, losing to Naomi Night. When it was announced that there would be a creation of the FCW Divas Championship, Aksana competed in a tournament to determine the inaugural champion, only to be defeated in the first round by Serena.

NXT (2010)
On August 31, 2010 it was announced that Aksana would be part of the third season of NXT, with Goldust as her mentor.

In wrestling

 * Wrestlers Managed
 * Johnny Curtis
 * Eli Cottonwood

External links and references

 * Zivile Raudoniene Profile on CAGEMATCH.
 * Zivile Raudoniene Profile on Online World of Wrestling