Deonna Purrazzo Doesn’t View AEW Women As Competition, ‘We Support Each Other’
Deonna Purrazzo doesn’t see anyone in the AEW women’s locker room as her competition. Instead, she’s happy to be in a locker room where women are lifting one another up and striving to break through more glass ceilings in a male-dominated industry.
Deonna Purrazzo is no stranger to making history as a woman in wrestling. She participated in the first TNA Knockouts main event of a pay-per-view along with Mickie James. In AEW, she and all the other women have a greater platform to expand their reach and promote women’s wrestling as a whole.
Speaking with former TNA Knockout SoCal Val in an interview for WrestlingNewsCo, Deonna Purrazzo praised the environment in the AEW women’s locker room and said that she doesn’t see any of the women as her competition. Rather, they’re all working to elevate women’s wrestling to new heights.
“As a women, I don’t see other women as my competition. I love to be around other women who support each other and want to grow our industry and our division together. I feel like, especially when I first started in AEW, that was kind of the vibe. It was like, ‘Okay, we’re just on this upward trajectory, and we need to keep pushing and pushing to tell better stories, and pushing to get more time, and telling them we want to work. Let us do everything.’ We have seen that over the last two years that I’ve been there, pay off. We’ve seen Toni Storm and Mariah may culminate in this like bloody catastrophe nightmare of a match. People online were arguing that it deserved to be the main event. That’s a division I want to be a part.
“I want to be part of a group of women who are pushing the envelope and saying, ‘We deserve more.’ Then you have Mercedes Mone, who’s killing it right now, and, I mean, she’s just always been a phenomenal wrestler, but is on a completely new level right now, and again, pushing for those boundaries to be broken. So I just hope that while I’m here, I can see women be the first main event. I can see, maybe, tag titles be introduced, and women just getting more opportunities on our television show every week. “
Fans can learn why AEW Women’s Tag Team Titles haven’t been introduced yet at this link.
Tony Khan recently praised Deonna Purrazzo for her positive outlook. Read more here.
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