Deonna Purrazzo Looks Back On Her Release From WWE In 2020

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TNA/IMPACT Wrestling star Deonna Purrazzo recently appeared on the Wrestling Is Life Is Wrestling program to talk about a number of topics including her release from WWE back in 2020 and what she has learned during that time.

Purrazzo said, โ€œSo when I got the phone call that I was released (from WWE), it was like, โ€˜What 203 number is calling me? Iโ€™m getting fired right now.โ€™ But also, it was a great conversation with Canyon Ceman at the time because he was like, โ€˜I think this is what you want and youโ€™re gonna end up really happyโ€™ and I was like, โ€˜I think so too, so thank you.โ€™ As negative as it was, it kind of ended โ€” at least with Canyon who I had worked with for like seven years up until that point on and off. It ended up really positive and I think, yeah, I wouldnโ€™t be me today and I wouldnโ€™t be able to look back and be like, โ€˜I was part of the problem too.โ€™ 25-year-old Deonna thought, โ€˜Itโ€™s them! It was them! It was them!โ€™ And now, five years removed, I can be like, I had a lot to do with that (she laughed), and now I work to form better relationships and to act better and to be more professional and to bite my tongue a little bit more and I learned a lot from those worse times of my life.โ€

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(H/T to PostWrestling for transcribing the above quotes)