Purrazzo also reacted to Green’s line from the 7/10 Monday Night Raw.
IMPACT Knockouts World Champion Deonna Purrazzo has her next title defense on this coming Thursday’s edition of IMPACT on AXS. She’ll be hosting an open challenge and then on Saturday at Slammiversary, she’ll be defending her title against Trinity Fatu.
Ahead of her title defenses, Purrazzo joined Busted Open Radio. She was asked about both she and Chelsea Green’s respective journeys post-WWE. Deonna feels IMPACT suits her best and has put her in position to show what she can do.
As for Green, Purrazzo is glad that her journey took her back to WWE. She added that there’s no one she wants more success for than Chelsea.
I think it was what was best for me (being with IMPACT Wrestling post-WWE). I think that for me, I’m a wrestler. I’m not necessarily an entertainer and IMPACT Wrestling has given me the opportunity to show the world what I do best and that’s wrestle and give me the space to be myself authentically and make mistakes and learn character but wrestle because that’s what I do best and you know, when Chelsea (Green) got released, it was really hard for her because WWE was the job she wanted from the day she got into wrestling and she kind of did what she had to do to work her way back and look at her now and I said it time and time again, there’s no one I want more success for than Chelsea Green. If it can’t be me, I want it to be her and to see her week after week be her real self. The theatrics on her face and the silly comment she made last night (on Raw) about, ‘Three strikes, you’re out, basketball,’ that’s Chelsea and that’s exactly who she wanted to be and I’m so glad that her path took her back to WWE and gave her that character.
While they were together in IMPACT, Green and Purrazzo became Knockouts World Tag Team Champions. Purrazzo credited Green for helping her bring out the ‘entertainment side’ of her wrestling personality.
I think when Chelsea (Green) and I were a tag team, when we were V.X.T. in IMPACT, we got to see a little bit of my entertainment side because I am quirky, I like to break out in song and dance in the house and I do have a really fun side and for me, in wrestling, it’s hard for me to bring that out so being partnered with Chelsea allowed me to bring out my more silly side and there’s one promo specifically where we’re tag champs and I had said to Gail (Kim), like, ‘It’s about time we bring back the champ-champ. I wanna wrestle Jordynne’ or whoever it was at the time for the championship and Lou (D’Angeli) kind of walks through the background and I started singing ‘Hit the Road Jack,’ you know, whatever and that’s just who I am. I’m silly and I like to break out in song and dance and I think if I had to pull back the wrestling and be an entertainer, I would kind of be that mean girl that makes those sly comments and can kind of poke fun and I don’t know, I don’t know.
On the 7/17 episode of Monday Night Raw, Green will have the opportunity to become WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion when she tags with Sonya Deville to take on the champions Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Busted Open Radio with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
