Tammy Washington (RLS CAS)

Katarina Virgulti (born 12th August 1992 in Queens, New York) is a professional wrestler currently signed to UNION Wrestling, where she performs under her Tammy Washington gimmick, and is a former one-time WOTU Inter Champion. 
The daughter of former BWF manager and UNION booker and investor Paul Vega1, she previously had a spell in PRIZE Wrestling League under the Washington gimmick, and in BWF as Katey Vega.
==Career==
===Training & QOQ Wrestling (2008-2010) ===
Virgulti trained, despite her father's reservations, at a local gym in Queens. Having seen careers ended in his own experiences of the business as a manager and booker, he felt she was risking her health too much by becoming a fully-fledged wrestler. He did, however, financially support her dream, and in 2010 she graduated from the school of the local Queens of Queens Wrestling2 promotion and signed a provisional contract with Exhibition Wrestling.
===Exhibition Wrestling (2010-2012)===
Assigned to the Canada brand, now named Katey Vega and directly associated with her father, she was mainly used as a heel enhancer to mid-card and occasionally upper-card talents on weekly programming. She didn't appear at any PPVs during this spell, although she would often help set up the arena for these bigger shows.
===BWF (2012-2014)===
Vega would join BWF in 2012, during the American Invasion angle instigated by her father, beating down Jubilee and Becca Bond and helping Joe Ricco defeat The Scouse Kid. She'd remain with the promotion until financially rot set in, and was booked to win the Inter Championship from Tina at A Very British Brawl in late 2014. Her father would urge her to remain in the UK as he made plans to setup a promotion with fellow expat Eddie Hamer, but she declined in favour of an EW return.
===EW return (2014-2018)===
Vega would return to EW: Canada, once again playing the enhancer, mostly, though after a short injury in 2015, she'd return in 2016 as KT Washington, the prototype of what would become the Tammy Washington gimmick. This would see her embark on her first big push, defeating Sally Mead and Francita in big matches at Prelimination 2017 and Guard of Honor 2018. She'd leave the promotion soon after due to them repeatedly teasing her with title runs that never materialised.
===PRIZE Wrestling League (2018-2019)===
Going as Tammy Washington for the first time, she'd join Mikey Ace's PRIZE Wrestling League in late-2018, debuting with a solid showing in a defeat to Tova Viklund on a November 2018 episode of PRIZE Fights. She'd get her first win in the promotion a month and a half later, in a Three Woman match against CC Sharp and Gaia Cassidy. Injury would come just as the promotion went on a short hiatus, which ended with them coming under the WCE banner.
She'd take part in the tourney to crown a first WCE Openweight Champion, defeating Gaia Cassidy in the first round before losing to Sarah Fenix in the semi-finals. She'd take a break during this time, resurfacing in July 2019 to defeat Nikki Gore, before a planned place on the renewed broadcast version of Premier League Wrestling fell through and she left the company. 
===Indy scene (2019-2022)===
Fife Wrestling Kingdom gave her, as Katey Vega again, several trials in early 2020 before the pandemic scuppered her chances of signing. Remaining in the UK, she'd eventually appear at some Indy Wrestling Lives events before embarking on a sabbatical. She returned in mid-2021 to do more IWL shows, but wasn't scheduled to appear in the shows that were ultimately cancelled.
===UNION Wrestling (2022-present)===
Squared Circle Insider confirmed exclusively in March 2022 that Tammy Washington would be one of the five signings making up the "Superstar Sunday" even, along with headliner Nancy Warren, former UNION Wrestling talent Rachel Reaper, and fellow PRIZE alums Anne Marie and CC Sharp. She'd debut on the first episode of UNION Unleashed, opening the show with a victory over Zara. She'd follow this up with some more impressive wins to earn a WOTU Inter Championship shot against Sitara at Uneasy Alliance 2023, which she'd win after incapacitating the meddling Indira, at ringside, and hitting a Crater Maker on- and pinning- the champion, retaining in a rematch at Hardcore Brawl 2023.
At London Calling 2024, Washington would defeat Zara, who'd been selected by committee to challenge for the title, in an acclaimed match. At UNION Open Challenge, she would lose the title in a surprising loss to the challenger, Sarah Fenix, who kicked out her Crater Maker twice.
==In-Wrestling==
===Signatures===
Brainbuster 8, 5
===Finishers===
Crater Maker (Powerbomb 10)
===Managers===
Paul Vega
=== Themes ===
USA 2
== Accomplishments ==
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== Trivia ==
* In an interview years later, she'd confirm that he decision not to join her father's UNION Wrestling promotion was due to a desire not to be seen as being largely successful based on favouritism, and wanting to build her own wrestling future.3
* She is currently in a relationship with fellow UNION Wrestling roster member Anne Marie.4
== Behind-the-Scenes/Notes ==
# She was always narratively Vega's daughter, introduced during the days he was active as a heel manager as his spoilt child.
# This was a promotion I had on a text-based wrestling sim of which I can't recall the name.
# In truth, I didn't feel like she'd get enough use at the time. Katey Vega was, however, created on paper at the time UNION was.
# Narrative fluff.
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