The legendary Mickie James has helped out plenty of talent, including Deonna Purrazzo.
Deonna Purrazzo vs. Mickie James
During the pandemic era of TNA, Deonna Purrazzo was on top of her game in the company. She was running through the roster, while being cocky enough to back it up. But, following her WWE release that year, Mickie James made her return to TNA and immedietly, the both of them were due for a meeting.
During a recent interview with ‘Insight With Chris Van Vliet’, Deonna Purrazzo opened up about the feud with Mickie, and believes it was a career-defining moment for her.
Oh my gosh. That whole entire feud was career-defining for me. After I worked with Jordynne, I kind of went into a phase of working pay-per-view to pay-per-view programs with a lot of the girls on the Impact roster. When Mickie came in, it was Slammiversary and she was making a return after being released from WWE. I think it was just the exact opponent I needed, an organic babyface with a history at this company who’s also like, at that point, she has nothing else to prove. She’s just here because she wants to be here, she wants to continue wrestling, she wants to continue to better and change women’s wrestling. My character at that time was ‘I’m the best, who are you?’ Just arrogant and so like this is my championship and my company and my title, and just the chemistry we had organically was just everything I needed in those moments to really sink my teeth in and define who The Virtuosa was.
Mickie James has since been TNA knockouts champion one more time, made appearances for WWE and much more. Deonna is currently in TNA and recently formed a team with Taya Valkyrie.
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