Jordynne Grace is coming home.
IMPACT aired a new promo for Jordynne Grace during the Emergence broadcast. The teaser video showed Grace working out, then the Victory Road logo flashed on the screen. After the video, Matthew Rehwoldt confirmed Jordynne Grace would be at IMPACT Victory Road on September 8 in White Plains, New York.
This is Grace’s first appearance in IMPACT Wrestling since losing a Knockouts Championship match to Deonna Purrazzo at Under Siege in May.
Shortly after that match, it was confirmed that Grace’s contract had expired and she was a free agent. Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful (via Fightful Select) reported that Grace said she was leaving IMPACT to focus on outside projects but she would “be back somewhere at some point.”
Grace has been with IMPACT Wrestling since 2018.
Grace commented on her return, posting a photo of new wrestling gear with the caption, “See you soon.”
Healthy Rivalry
IMPACT Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo recently spoke with WrestleZone Managing Editor Bill Pritchard about her rivalry with Grace. She said they remain friends outside the ring, but it’s nice to have a good rivalry as opponents.
“I think especially when you’re fighting somebody, you know what I mean? There has to be a respect because you’re literally beating the crap out of each other for one goal,” Deonna Purrazzo said. And if someone can beat you up a little bit more or is that much stronger or faster or — look at the things that Jordynne has accomplished over the last, even just one month. She trained for the last six, eight months, whatever it was, for a bodybuilding competition, and she destroyed it. She won everything.
“So, Jordynne’s transformation, you have to respect just as a human being. And I think when you can differentiate that of like, ‘hey, we have one goal in mind, we’re going to beat the hell out of each other to get there, but then also look at what we’re doing in real life and look what you had to do to get here, and you still made it through.’ And I think that’s our biggest thing is like the people we are outside of the ring, we can respect that and then bring that fight to each other at the end, at the end of the day and just be like, ‘Hey, you got the best of me and thank you.‘”
