{"id":97272,"date":"2021-07-31T22:38:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T02:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=97272"},"modified":"2021-07-31T22:38:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T02:38:55","slug":"matthew-rehwoldt-and-deonna-purrazzo-impact-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/07\/31\/matthew-rehwoldt-and-deonna-purrazzo-impact-homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Rehwoldt and Deonna Purrazzo Awarded IMPACT Homecoming King and Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>&#8220;The Drama King&#8221; Matthew Rehwoldt<\/b> and <b>Deonna Purrazzo<\/b>\u00a0have been crowned <strong>IMPACT<\/strong> <strong>Wrestling<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/07\/30\/impact-wrestling-homecoming-7-31-21\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>Homecoming<\/em><\/a> King and Queen. The duo won the mixed tag tournament on the IMPACT Plus event\u00a0<em>Homecoming<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Long may they reign. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Homecoming?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Homecoming<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DramaKingMatt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DramaKingMatt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeonnaPurrazzo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DeonnaPurrazzo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3C73HGdfBW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/3C73HGdfBW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTNA\/status\/1421658189662146565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Deonna Purrazzo decided to enter the tournament on the latest episode of IMPACT. She refused to announce her partner until the tournament itself. As she was about to take on the team of <strong>Alisha Edwards<\/strong> and <strong>Hernandez<\/strong>, &#8220;The Drama King&#8221; Matthew Rehwoldt made his IMPACT debut, becoming Purrazzo&#8217;s partner for the tournament. A vignette teasing his arrival first aired at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/07\/17\/matt-rehwoldt-aiden-english-impact-wrestling-slammiversary\/\" target=\"_self\">Slammiversary<\/a> <\/em>and they have aired on IMPACT since.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Rehwoldt and Deonna Purrazzo defeated Alisha Edwards and Hernandez in the <em>Homecoming<\/em> first round. They defeated the team of <strong>Chelsea<\/strong> <strong>Green<\/strong> and <strong>Matt<\/strong> <strong>Cardona<\/strong> in the semi-finals before besting <strong>Crazzy<\/strong> <strong>Steve<\/strong> and <strong>Rosemary<\/strong> of <strong>Decay<\/strong> in the finals. With this victory, they are the first Homecoming King and Queen in IMPACT Wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>Purrazzo is the current IMPACT Knockouts Champion in her second reign. Rehwoldt is now an official member of the IMPACT roster. We will find out where he will fit in the current IMPACT picture in the coming weeks on IMPACT on AXS TV.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to Last Word on Sports for updates on Rehwoldt&#8217;s IMPACT career as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for 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. As well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can catch IMPACT Wrestling on Thursday nights on AXS TV and Twitch.TV as well as all the time on <a href=\"https:\/\/impactplus.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IMPACT Plus<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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>&#8220;The Drama King&#8221; Matthew Rehwoldt and Deonna Purrazzo\u00a0have been crowned IMPACT Wrestling Homecoming King and Queen. The duo won the mixed tag tournament on the IMPACT Plus event\u00a0Homecoming. Long may they reign. #Homecoming @DramaKingMatt @DeonnaPurrazzo pic.twitter.com\/3C73HGdfBW &mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) August 1, 2021 Deonna Purrazzo decided to enter the tournament on the latest episode of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3722,"featured_media":97401,"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":[7,12,6,2192],"tags":[1162,7909],"class_list":["post-97272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-deonna-purrazzo","tag-matthew-rehwoldt"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97272","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\/3722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}