Former NXT Superstar Deonna Purrazzo was released last week and sat down with Sportskeeda to discuss a myriad of topics. Check out some of the highlights below:
On how she felt after being released:
I kind of knew, in my heart, that I would get a call last week. It’s not something that I didn’t expect because I was unhappy for the last six or so months with what I was doing in NXT – and I let office people know that. We had conversations where I said, if nothing is going to happen for me, I’d just rather be let go.
On there being no announcement regarding the NXT releases:
I didn’t know if they were going to release NXT people, and when I had gotten the call, they hadn’t announced anyone from NXT yet – so I don’t know if I was the first or if I was the last – but I just thought, ‘Screw it, I’m going to announce it on my own and maybe get one step ahead of them on this, and it’s going to be on my terms.’
On the out-pour of support she has received since her release:
I think the first person from the WWE who reached out was Nattie. Just from over the last year, I was traveling a little bit with RAW and since everything has been happening at the PC, that’s just someone I’ve just kind of gained a relationship with over the last maybe three or four months and it was really thoughtful of her to reach out. Bayley and Nia reached out. But it was crazy to see the amount of support and love, and like interactions my tweet got. On that thing on Twitter where you can see the hits, it had like two million hits. I got more popularity being fired by WWE than I did the entire two years I was there!
On if she struggled to keep her real name as her ring name:
It wasn’t too difficult. I had only been asked once before the Mae Young when I was first hired, so back in 2018, to send a list of potential names. Then I sent them a list of potential names and I said, ‘My name is the Deonna, you will never have another Deonna, so if I can’t keep my last name, here are last names that I would like.’ I just never heard anything back, and there was never another conversation.
On who she wanted to battle in WWE that she never did:
Nattie, of course! Hands down, she’s like my dream match that is, like, realistic. Then I worked with Bayley once in NXT but I’d love to actually, as a part of the roster, get to do that and showcase myself a little bit more. Then, same with Sasha Banks. Those are three people that I admire and I think are amazing wrestlers, and I would really love it if, one day, that was possible to work with them.
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