Deonna Purrazzo Reveals Creative Idea She Pitched for Her Character in AEW

During a recent interview with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp, AEW wrestler and ROH Women’s Pure Champion Deonna Purrazzo spoke about re-learning wrestling for TV in AEW, and one of her creative ideas she pitched for herself in AEW that didn’t get approved. Below are some highlights from Fightful:

Deonna Purrazzo on Re-Learning Wrestling for TV in AEW

“It’s like a catch-22, right? Because literally my eighth match was a TNA knockouts, was an all-Knockouts pay-per-view, eighth match ever. I was so in over my head in terms of like, ‘What is a hard cam?’ I was one year into my wrestling training, but I think that exposed me so early on that I was like so ahead of the game and so ahead of my peers in terms of, like, two weeks later, I was an extra. I was being a Rosebud on RAW and SmackDown. So I’ve just kind of had this trajectory from the start where it was like, ‘You don’t have a choice but to be TV-ready.’ Now, though, I felt like going to AEW was one of those big moments where it was such a shift again, because TNA wasn’t live at the time. Everything was taped except pay-per-views and so I hadn’t worked a commercial break in three years. So it was a real big learning curve to go back to live TV when I hadn’t for so long. Then learning the [AWA] and things like that, I felt like I was a little bit behind the ball, actually, almost two years ago when I started there.”

Purrazzo on One of Her Ideas That She Pitched to AEW

“I pitched Purrazzo in Picture. It was a mock picture-in-picture segment where we could pop up my floating head, and I could talk shit about an opponent, or like a pop quiz, AEW history question, and make it about one of the girls and they have a problem with it and then I could just get squashed. I was like, don’t need to be like a serious ‘rassler. I can just do Purrazzo in Picture. I ran this by [Chelsea] when I came up with the idea and she was like, ‘Deonna, that’s gold. You need to pitch this.’”

Deonna Purrazzo will defend her ROH Women’s Pure Title on tomorrow’s edition of ROH on HonorClub TV. She will face Billie Starkz in her title defense.