Angelina Love and Winter

Angelina Love and Winter were a professional wrestling tag team. The team was signed on to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

History

Debut; TNA Knockout Tag Team Champions (2010)

On the October 21 episode of Impact! Angelina Love entered a storyline where a woman named Winter started appearing in mirrors, claiming to be her fan, though only Love was able to see her. After weeks of appearing only in front of Love, Winter was for the first time seen by the other people on the November 25 episode of Impact!, when she saved Love during a large backstage brawl. On the December 9 episode of Impact! Love and Velvet Sky entered a four–team tournament for the vacated TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship, defeating Sarita and Daffney in their first round match. On the December 23 episode of Impact!, Winter replaced an injured Velvet Sky, who had been attacked by Sarita, in the tournament final and teamed with Love to defeat Madison Rayne and Tara for the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship. On the March 3 edition of Impact! Cookie and Robbie aligned themselves with former Jersey Shore cast member Angelina Pivarnick, with whom they bonded through their mutual dislike of Jenni "JWoww" Farley, whom Pivarnick proceeded to challenge to a match (whom was replaced by Winter). The following week Winter, Angelina Love and Velvet Sky defeated Cookie, Angelina Pivarnick and Sarita in a six knockout tag team match. Winter and Love lost the Knockouts Tag Team Championship to Sarita and Rosita on March 13 at Victory Road, after an interference by Velvet Sky backfired. On the following episode of Impact!, Winter and Angelina Love teamed up with Matt Morgan were they defeated Mexican America (Rosita, Sarita, Hernandez) in a six person street fight, After the match, the "fan", who had interfered in Morgan's match at Victory Road, once again entered the ring and attacked Morgan.

Various feuds and Knockouts Champion (2011-2012)

On March 13, 2011, at Victory Road, Love and Winter lost the Knockouts Tag Team Championship to Sarita and Rosita, after an interference by Velvet Sky backfired. On the March 24 episode of Impact!, Winter, seemingly having control over Love's actions, prevented her from saving Sky from a beatdown at the hands of Sarita and Rosita. Love was kept under Winter's spell with drinks of what she described as her medicine. On the April 7 episode of Impact!, Love turned on Sky during a Knockouts Tag Team Championship match against Sarita and Rosita and left her to be pinned by the champions. On the April 28 episode of Impact!, Love defeated Sky via submission in a singles match, no-selling all of her opponent's offense during the match. On the May 5 episode of Impact!, Sky gained a measure of revenge on her former partner, when she teamed with Kurt Angle in a handicap mixed tag team match, where they defeated Love, Winter and Jeff Jarrett. The feud between the former Beautiful People partners seemingly ended on the May 19 episode of Impact Wrestling, with Sky defeating Love and Winter in a handicap match. The following week Love attacked Mickie James, after she had defeated Winter in a singles match, setting up a match between the two for the TNA Women's Knockout Championship at Slammiversary IX. Prior to the match at the pay-per-view, Love declined to take her medicine, saying that she no longer needed it as she now understood Winter. After failing in her attempt to win the title, both Love and Winter attacked James. On the June 23 episode of Impact Wrestling, Love helped Winter defeat James in a non-title Street Fight. On August 7 at Hardcore Justice, Love again helped Winter defeat James, this time to become the new Women's Knockout Champion. On the September 15 episode of Impact Wrestling, Love failed to earn a shot at the title as she was defeated by Velvet Sky in a qualifying match. On the January 12, 2012 episode of Impact Wrestling, Winter lost to ODB. After saving ODB from Love and Winter, Eric Young was challenged by Love to a match. Young won the match via disqualification, after Love kicked him in the groin. This led to a tag team match, on the January 26 episode of Impact Wrestling, with Love and Winter losing to ODB and Eric Young, this was their last televised match as a team. Since then the duo have competed in a 10 knockout battle royal for the 1# contendership for Gail Kims Knockout Championship on February 16 episode of Impact Wrestling Madison Rayne won by last eliminating Velvet Sky. On the April 5 episode of Impact Wrestling, in Loves final Impact Wrestling match was a six-way match to become the number one contender to Gail Kim's Women's Knockout Championship featuring Madison Rayne, Mickie James, Tara, Winter & Velvet Sky, Sky won the match by pinning James. On June 14, 2012 at a TNA house show in Belton, Texas for the first time in almost 5 months Love & Winter teamed up with Sarita & Rosita to take on Velvet Sky, Mickie James and Tara in a 4-on-3 Handicap match in the main event of the show in a losing effort after Sky pinned Rosita. On June 16, In Houston, Texas at a TNA house show Love & Winter lost against Tara & Velvet Sky this would mark their last match together as a team.

On July 1, 2012, Angelina Love announced on her Twitter page that she had been granted her release from TNA, thus disbanding the team.

In wrestling

• Double-team finishing moves
  • Botox Injection (Love) / Samoan drop (Winter) combination

• Angelina's finishing moves
  • Botox Injection (Bicycle kick)
  • Break A [...] (Inverted facelock transitioned into a double knee backbreaker)

• Winter's finishing moves
  • Blood Mist (Asian mist)
  • Side slam backbreaker
  • Swinging side slam, sometimes dropped into a backbreaker

• Entrance themes
  • "Hands of Wicked" by Goldy Locks

Championships and accomplishments

• Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  • TNA Women's Knockout Championship (2 times) – Winter (2)
  • TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship (1 time)