10 WWE Stars You Totally Don’t Remember Appearing At WrestleMania

3. Aksana

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Aksana spent almost five years in the WWE system, starting her career in the Florida Championship Wrestling developmental territory in 2009 and surviving a disparate main roster Divas division in the early part of this decade before her 2014 release.

Getting a break of sorts on the train-wreck all-female third season of NXT, she began an odd storyline with mentor Goldust in which she manipulated 'The Bizarre One' into marrying her in order to solve visa issues that would have seen her deported home to Lithuania.

Indifferent appearances on Raw and Smackdown followed for months, with her first WrestleMania appearance coming in a blink-and-miss-it role supporting Teddy Long's 'Team Teddy' during the 28th iteration of the 'Showcase of the Immortals'.

She was paired with newcomer Antonio Cesaro in 2012, but the allegiance was short-lived as she moved back into C-show feuds with Naomi, Alisha Fox and others as part of a female league on life support.

Her second and last WrestleMania effort came shortly before her June 2014 release, with a bystander's role in the 'Vickie Guerrero Invitational' for AJ Lee's Divas Title (won comfortably by division standout Lee).

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