Ex WWE Star Deonna Purrazzo On NXT Stint, “I Was Doing Wrong”

Sep 10, 2021 at 2:15 PM

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Ex WWE Star Deonna Purrazzo On NXT Stint, “I Was Doing Wrong”

Deonna Purrazzo was released from WWE NXT on April 15th of last year who went on to achieve lots of success in the coming days. She was quick to arrive at Impact Wrestling promotion around 60 days because she only had a 30-day no-compete clause associated with her release (unlike the main roster releases, NXT superstars only have 30-day no-compete clauses).

Deonna Purrazzo started to work with Impact Wrestling and became their Knockouts Champion even before signing up for the company in a bound deal. The two-time Knockouts Champion is also the Women’s Champion from AAA promotion who was also announced the wrestler of the year by Impact in 2020. Now, that’s how someone would like to make an impact once WWE would fire them.

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The Virtuosa didn’t receive much of an opportunity while being on NXT television. This was a frustrating part of her career that went on for a couple of years. She signed with WWE to become a star on television but she wasn’t and this appeared to be the biggest problem for her.

While speaking to Oral Sessions hosted by Renee Paquette (fka Renee Young in WWE), Deonna Purrazzo detailed some of her complaints about WWE’s developmental system. She was given suggestions about to do differently, but the authorities never informed her what to do so that she could shine on television.

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Deonna Purrazzo was frustrated with his WWE NXT career

“That’s the vibe that I got that I was doing wrong … And I wasn’t necessarily getting a lot of feedback of like ‘this is what you can do better.’ Otherwise it was ‘this is good, maybe you could’ve done something different here. Or something there, or we need to play with your music and your entrance,’” Deonna Purrazzo continued.

“But wrestling-wise, no one was really telling me anything different. And that was my biggest complaint. So I’d go to Matt Bloom and be like ‘okay I came here to be a TV star. And I’m not. So if you’re not going to tell me what I need to do to be a TV star, what am I doing here?’ In hindsight, maybe I did that too soon.”

Ultimately Deonna Purrazzo felt like that she was in a situation where no one had her back, no matter how hard she worked. She also remembered having several arguments over her situation with Performance Center head trainer Matt Bloom. At a point, the duo ended up yelling at each other, a situation that no PC trainee would like to be a part of. Things ended well for her as she was released and was able to establish herself as one of the most dominating female wrestlers of this generation.

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