The Iron Women of TNA, Jordynne Grace & Deonna Purrazzo
Iron Woman Match
During the pandemic, many shows in wrestling were taped in a closed studio or an arena with no fans. Due to this, company’s had to get creative to bring out the best for their audience at home. In TNA, it seemed like they struck gold with their women, and capped it off in a big way. In a recent interview with ‘Insight with Chris Van Vliet’, Deonna Purrazzo revealed how a match with Jordynne Grace started as a No-DQ, but took a surprise turn into way more.
Well, we were supposed to do a No Disqualification match at first. So at the time, what was great about Impact was we were taping every two weeks in Nashville. It was still the pandemic, so it was a closed studio and we would get creative ahead of time. So what Jordynne and I were told we were doing was we were going to have our Slammiversary match, and then the next day at the next set of tapings two weeks down the road we would do a No Disqualification match. So leading into that we planned for a hardcore [match], what are cool, intricate, different things we could do with weapons? It wasn’t until the match at Slammiversary happened and it went over so well, the internet loved it, just the entire reaction was so good to it from a company standpoint and from a social media standpoint, that they were like, we need to do something bigger than a 10 minute No Disqualification match. We’re gonna do a first-ever Iron Woman match. And when they told Jordynne and I that literally at the beginning of the next day at like 9 am we were both like what the f*ck? We were so beat up that we had 17 or 18 minutes on the pay-per-view, beat that crap out of each other, and now you want us to do it again, but for like, double the time? Jordynne Grace is one of the hardest-hitting people I’ve ever been in the ring with, physically and emotionally, she just brings out such a different animal in every one of her opponents. You need to be 100% to be in the ring with Jordynne Grace. So neither of us were 100% at that time and going in we were just like how do we even reframe and reset our mind to do what we did again, but 30 minutes.
Jordynne, still with TNA and sometimes appearing on NXT, and Deonna, who’s now with AEW, are bound to meet again sometime down the road.
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