Deonna Purrazzo wasted no time in ensuring her place with AEW after becoming available to be signed in late last year.
Purrazzo debuted for AEW during the January 3, 2024 edition of AEW Dynamite, during which she confronted Mariah May.
On a recent edition of the “Insight” podcast, Purrazzo spoke about her debut for AEW coming in her home state of New Jersey. She said,
“Honestly, that’s how the schedule lined up. When I spoke to Tony Khan before I signed, I had said to him, this kind of seems like we’re on the same page with a lot of things. If I was to debut the first Dynamite of the New Year is in New Jersey, and that would be like a dream come true for me.”
When asked how quickly her AEW arrival came together, Purrazzo added,
“That conversation was like, mid-December. Yeah, it only took like, three weeks to get this deal done. It was a last-minute thing. I found out, So we had that conversation, and I pitched that idea, signed the contract on the 1st and it was like, Okay, we have, like, two days, and I haven’t heard anything. I was really upset because I thought, like, it’s Tuesday afternoon, it’s probably not gonna happen. Tuesday at 5pm Sonjay Dutt called me and was like, we’d love to have you in Newark. Is that doable? And I was like of course it’s doable. So yeah, it was literally, like, a 24-hour turnover.”
Purrazzo has wrestled 20 times for AEW since her debut, with her biggest match being against then-Women’s Champion Toni Storm at Revolution.
The Virtuosa’s most recent match for AEW came on the September 6, 2024 episode of Collision, where she lost to Hikaru Shida.
