Tasha Steelz is going for gold once again at IMPACT Bound For Glory when she teams with Deonna Purrazzo to challenge MK Ultra (Killer Kelly & Masha Slamovich) for the Knockouts Tag Team Championships.
Tasha and Deonna are former Knockouts Tag Team Champions, but have never won the titles together and have rarely teamed together.
Despite their lack of on-screen experience as a team, the two go back to Tasha's early days in wrestling when they trained under Damian Adams at Team Adams Academy.
"Team Adams is the beginning," Tasha told Jeremy Lambert & Joel Pearl on In The Weeds. "That's where it all started at Team Adams Academy in New Jersey. Damian Adams, the head trainer, the best trainer in the world, that's where we started. It's been since 2015 when I first met Deonna and Damian, and I first started training. Ever since then, we've trained together, we traveled together, we broke bread together. We've done some crazy things, stories I can't tell [laughs]. It's been a long journey for the both of us and we've been doing it together, which is a good thing. She's one of my best friends and to have this tag match and tag title match, it's definitely a dream come true. I won the titles with one of my closest friends. To, this Saturday, win the titles with not only one of my training buddies, but another close friend, it's big things for me. Team Adams is just the beginning and it's been embedded in us since 2015."
Tasha previously won the Knockouts Tag Team Titles with Kiera Hogan while Purrazzo won the titles with her best friend Chelsea Green.
Asked what it's like teaming with someone they know so well off-screen, Tasha said, "With Deonna, she knows me a lot more than Kiera does because Deonna helped train me. She knows my strengths, she knows my weaknesses, she knows how I am in the ring. We have the most amazing chemistry together and we know how each other thinks without even saying it. It was the same thing with Kiera. We could show up to the pay-per-view, to the tapings, and wouldn't even have to talk about it or say anything or call each other. Everything would be on point from our outfits to our entrance, everything, it would all be on point. That's why it was the most entertaining during the pandemic, it was us two out there and being entertaining. The great thing about tagging with someone you're close with is the fact that you know each other in and out of the ring. You know each other personally, professionally, and how the other works. Sometimes, one of us is not together and the other person has to get them together. That's one of the great things working with these ladies. They both know me, Deonna knows me ten times more than Kiera does, but it's me teaming with my closest friends."
While Tasha and Deonna have teamed together in multi-woman matches, IMPACT Bound For Glory will mark the first time they team in a tag team bout.
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Watch the full interview with Tasha in the video above.
