Deonna Purrazzo talks about the AEW women's division and what it needs.
Deonna signed with AEW in January of 2024, making her first appearance as a signed talent on the January 3rd edition of AEW Dynamite, interrupting Mariah May and calling her shot at the AEW Women's World Title. Now, she is currently embroiled in a blood feud with Thunder Rosa that has spread across multiple AEW programs.
While speaking to Bodyslam.net in a recent interview, Deonna was asked about building to a crescendo from a story point of view.
"Yeah I think that's what every women's division needs... is time to tell these stories and let them breathe and let fans pick who they like and don't like and and then do fun things like, you know, just qualification match or add different stipulations to it. I think that then there's also, you know, we're dealing with the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament right now and that is an opportunity to wrestle for the world championship at All In and there's so many pieces going on in our division right now. That's what makes a successful division is you have your stories with the champion. You have Toni Storm and Mina coming up at Forbidden Door. But then you also have this, like, underlying who's Mariah going to pick story happening. You have Mercedes Mone and Stephanie Vaquer wrestling at Forbidden Door. And going back and forth to CMLL, like, there's just so much. Then you have me and Thunder. Total non-storyline happening. You have the Owen happening, like... That's what you want to see in a women's division. That's a women's division you want to be a part of. If you can't be in the world title, you can be doing something else, building your stock to get to the world title and so I'm just, again, so grateful to be on any show, doing anything, working with anyone, and continuing to build my stock and introduce myself to this new audience."
Purrazzo is set for action on the June 29th edition of AEW Collision. You can read more about that here.
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