Deonna Purrazzo Says Her Time In ROH Means Everything To Her, ‘That’s My Wrestling Identity’

Deonna Purrazzo reflects on her time in Ring of Honor. 

Deonna Purrazzo is a former Ring of Honor Women’s World Champion, having been the champion at the start of the Tony Khan era of ROH. However, she also sees her growth as a professional wrestler concurrent with the growth of Ring of Honor’s women’s division. 

Deonna has wrestled 28 matches under the Ring of Honor banner, many early in her career. Now, she tells Justin Dhillon on Conversations with The Wrestling Classic that the ROH brand is integral to the core of her wrestling identity. 

“Oh, that means everything to me. I feel like, Ring Of Honor, talking about it — getting to go back a couple of years ago, my heart is like a Ring Of Honor kid. That’s who I am. That’s my wrestling identity. I got to really develop who the Virtuosa was going to be before I even knew who she was going to be by developing that Ring Of Honor division. I think that, yeah, women’s wrestling kind of got put back on the map a little bit, but we fought so hard for each and every single one of those matches. Each and every single like social pre-tape that we did, we had to fight so hard to do that. I think more than fighting for women’s wrestling, I learned a lot about the fight I had inside of me as a professional and what I was willing to put up with and what I wasn’t willing to put up with and the direction that I saw myself and the division going. So, I look back on those days, there was so much shit we went through, but like so fondly of, like, those are my formative years and that’s when I learned who I was going to be in this wrestling crazy business.”

Purrazzo is now with AEW full-time and can appear on Ring of Honor programming whenever necessary. 

Learn more about Purrazzo’s long-term goals in AEW at this link. 

Should you use any of the above quotes, please be sure to link back to this article, giving Fightful proper credit for the transcription.