{"id":69356,"date":"2020-05-26T21:39:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T01:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=69356"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T15:33:14","slug":"impact-knockouts-division-adds-deonna-purrazzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/05\/26\/impact-knockouts-division-adds-deonna-purrazzo\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPACT Knockouts Division Adds Deonna Purrazzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With rumors running rampant she was headed to <strong>All Elite Wrestling (AEW)<\/strong>, <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong> solidified the Knockouts Division as the best women&#8217;s division in the world on Tuesday, with the reveal that former NXT Superstar <strong>Deonna Purrazzo<\/strong> is IMPACT bound.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I am <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeonnaPurrazzo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DeonnaPurrazzo<\/a> &#8211; The Virtuosa.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IMPACTonAXSTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#IMPACTonAXSTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pV2SScVnvN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/pV2SScVnvN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTNA\/status\/1265453684172996609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Deonna Purrazzo was one of the indies&#8217; top prospects when she signed with WWE in 2018. She had become one of the indies&#8217; biggest darlings and worked for majors like WWE (NXT, SmackDown), <strong>Ring of Honor<\/strong>, IMPACT Wrestling, and others in various roles. During Black Wednesday, she was released from the WWE after barely appearing on WWE television. But on Tuesday, Deonna Purrazzo made her intentions and home clear, joining a women&#8217;s division that has added <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/04\/29\/killer-death-machine-nevaeh-makes-impact-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neveah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/05\/12\/get-to-know-kimber-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kimber Lee<\/a><\/strong>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/05\/12\/report-tasha-steelz-joins-impact-knockouts-division-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tasha Steelz<\/strong><\/a> in recent weeks, while already bosting <strong>Tessa Blanchard, Taya Valkyrie, Jordynne Grace, Rosemary, Su Yung, Kylie Rae, Jessicka Havok, Madison Rayne, Kiera Hogan<\/strong>, and <strong>Tenille Dashwood<\/strong>. With arguably the best women&#8217;s roster in North American pro wrestling, it will be interesting to see what IMPACT has in store to push them all.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">\u00a0Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world.\u00a0 We provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can watch IMPACT every Tuesday on AXS-TV and see past episodes of IMPACT Wrestling on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/impactplus.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IMPACT+<\/a>. Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? Head on over to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/boards\/index.php\" target=\"_self\">LWOS Boards<\/a>\u00a0to engage in conversation with fellow fans!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With rumors running rampant she was headed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), IMPACT Wrestling solidified the Knockouts Division as the best women&#8217;s division in the world on Tuesday, with the reveal that former NXT Superstar Deonna Purrazzo is IMPACT bound. &quot;I am @DeonnaPurrazzo &#8211; The Virtuosa.&quot; #IMPACTonAXSTV pic.twitter.com\/pV2SScVnvN &mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) May 27, 2020 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":69358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,6,321,317],"tags":[1162,226],"class_list":["post-69356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-impact","category-north-america","category-tna-knockouts","category-women","tag-deonna-purrazzo","tag-impact-wrestling"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}