Deonna Purrazzo reflects on her time in WWE NXT

Deonna Purrazzo was in WWE NXT from 2018-2020. She was released from WWE on April 15, 2020. She had wrestled lots of NXT house shows during her time in NXT.

Deonna Purrazzo recently was on Talk Is Jericho podcast, where she talked about Toni Storm. WWE NXT, and more.

Deonna Purrazzo on her time in WWE NXT

“It was bad. You know, because I had so much experience working with WWE in an extra role, but then I was travelling for weeks as La Luchadora. I had been on Raw and SmackDown, actually wrestling like I had then been on NXT TV a ton. There was a respect level that I thought would carry over into now that I got the job. And I found out real quick that it didn’t matter that I had done all those things.”

“It was like silly things, like, obviously, the crowd then knew who I was, so live events, like, you know, you’re expected to like wand the people at the door, and I’m like, but these people know who I am, or like, be the person that takes jackets from the ringside and brings them to the back.”

“I’m totally fine to do that, but I’m sitting here and distracting because the people want to talk. I just was like, ‘Hey, I just don’t know if that’s the job for me. Is there a different job I could do?’ And it just rubbed people the wrong way, and it wasn’t that I didn’t want to do those jobs.”

“So like here Chelsea Green and I are wanding people. So I think I was a little bit too vocal about the things that I thought weren’t right or should be changed, and then when it came to like me being TV ready or whatever, I was very vocal about, like, ‘Just tell me what you don’t like and what you do like, and I’ll do the things you do like, and I’ll work on the things you don’t like, just be straight up.'”

“I’m a 100% honest person. Just be honest with me, and no one could tell me we don’t like this, we do like this, and finally, I just had a breaking point, like, this isn’t working for anybody. It sure as hell is not working for me.”

“So either you’re going to tell me what I’m doing wrong and I could fix it, so I could be on TV because I came here to be a TV star or I’m not going to be a TV star and you should just let me go, and yeah, I was let go a couple of weeks later.”