Deonna Purrazzo Reflects on Her Tag Team Run With Chelsea Green in TNA

During a recent interview with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp, ROH Women’s Pure Champion Deonna Purrazzo spoke about her tag team run with Chelsea Green in TNA Wrestling (formerly Impact Wrestling). According to Purrazzo, their tag team run in TNA in 2022, including the name of their team’s finisher, was a play on things the duo went through during their WWE NXT days. Below are some highlights:

Deonna Purrazzo the Team Names They Considered for NXT

“Oh, gosh, I don’t know. I think VXT had a whole bunch of different names when we pitched it because NXT at the time didn’t want the play on NXT. She was like, ‘What we were the hell-bent Vixens?’ or something like that. Like that wasn’t it. But something about the Vixens or, ‘What if we’re the Calvary?’ Like it’s play on the Horsewomen, right? We had a bunch of different names in mind. But definitely hers always led towards that Diva era, where I was more like the historical.”

On Pitching the Name Due Collectors, Which They Named Their Finisher in TNA

“When we were in TNA, actually, we wanted our finisher, which was the double pendulum, in TNA to be called the Due Collector. Which, when we were in NXT, they were doing PC Live, and they put VXT. So at the time, was me, Chelsea, and Rachael Ellering were VXT and VXT was Rachael’s idea. So she pulled us aside and was like, ‘Let’s pitch this idea,’ and they liked it for PC Live, but they didn’t like VXT. So they were like, ‘What if we call you guys the Due Collectors?’ We were like, ‘This is horrible. Horrible.’ It was also kind of like, ‘Are you being sarcastic in terms of like, that’s what you think?’ Like, ‘Oh, we paid our dues. You have to pay your dues.’ We were kind of like offended. So everything that Chelsea and I did in TNA as Vexed, ‘cause they didn’t want to call us VXT because of that, was kind of like a play on everything we went through in NXT. So we wanted to be our finish to be called the Due Collector, but Tom Hannifin was like, ‘I’m not fucking saying that.’”

Green and Purrazzo won the Knockouts World Tag Team Titles at Impact Wrestling Emergence in 2022.