3 weeks ago
NEWYou tin now perceive to Fox News articles!
Deonna Purrazzo was credited pinch helping restart nan women’s section successful Ring of Honor (ROH) erstwhile she joined nan institution successful 2015. She was featured successful 1 of nan first women’s matches successful nan company’s history successful astir a decade astatine nan time.
She spent 3 years pinch nan institution earlier she landed backmost successful All Elite Wrestling (AEW) successful 2024. By that time, AEW co-founder Tony Khan had bought Ring of Honor and it became a sister institution of AEW. Upon her return to Ring of Honor, she was thrust into a tourney to find nan first ROH women’s axenic champion.
PRO WRESTLING STARS LEADING SHOWCASE TO BENEFIT TUNNEL TO TOWERS, SHARE WHAT BEING AN AMERICAN MEANS TO THEM
Deonna Purrazzo celebrates aft winning her lucifer during AEW Collision connected June 15, 2024, astatine nan Covelli Centre successful Youngstown, Ohio. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)
In December, Purrazzo defeated Billie Starkz to beryllium crowned nan champion and has held nan title ever since.
As a activity of caller wrestlers hit nan free-agent market complete nan past 2 weeks, Purrazzo touted nan opportunities that Ring of Honor has for women’s wrestlers – thing that was "really important" to nan New Jersey native.
"I deliberation what’s truthful awesome astir Ring of Honor is that it kinda flies nether nan radar a small bit," she told Fox News Digital. "So, you get to really create and show stories and show characteristic and possibly effort thing different than you would if you were connected ‘Dynamite’ each azygous week. I deliberation that location is really awesome women’s wrestling wrong Ring of Honor. Most weeks there’s four, five, six women’s matches and truthful I deliberation that it doesn’t get capable in installments online that it deserves for what it’s doing and nan intent it’s serving for women’s wrestling, which is, again, really important to me, starting successful Ring of Honor, starting nan women’s section 11 years ago.
"To get to spot aggregate women each azygous week turn and develop, I deliberation it’s really important and I deliberation that if much group saw it arsenic a landing spot, we tin possibly turn that cognition successful nan public’s eyes."
Athena sits astatine nan apical of nan women’s section successful ROH. She’s held nan ROH Women’s World Championship for much than 1,200 days. Red Velvet is nan existent ROH Women’s World Television Championship and has held it for much than 150 days.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM
Deonna Purrazzo attends Shaq's Fun House astatine XS nightclub astatine Encore Las Vegas connected Feb. 9, 2024. (Greg Doherty/Getty Images)
Purrazzo besides has nan opportunity to thief veterans and first-responders successful need.
She and her husband, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling prima Steve Maclin, are putting connected nan Battle for nan Brave connected June 6. The charity event will use nan Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
Purrazzo stressed really important giving backmost to military veterans was to her successful an question and reply pinch Fox News Digital earlier this week, particularly arsenic a subject wife. Maclin served successful nan U.S. Marines.
"Growing up successful New Jersey arsenic well, 9/11 was specified a large deal. For me, I was successful 2nd grade," she said. "I didn’t understand what was going connected but successful nan days after, I felt a consciousness of unity successful that everyone came together, everyone was proud to beryllium an American, and we were going to conflict backmost and guidelines together and beryllium one, agreed country. And I deliberation that, that emotion has ever stuck pinch maine but being a veteran’s wife, it’s taken connected a wholly different role.
"Steve opening up astir his work and things he’s seen and knowledgeable pinch maine has fixed maine a caller passion to fto veterans cognize that, yes, warfare will ever travel location pinch you but it doesn’t person to specify you. Steve was truthful fortunate that he was capable to find wrestling correct aft he sewage retired of nan Marine Corps and it saved him, successful a way, from falling down nan chartless way of ‘What americium I? Who americium I next?’
Pro wrestling stars Steve Maclin and Deonna Purrazzo look astatine each other. (Provided to Fox News Digital)
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP
"And I deliberation that’s thing that our veterans woody pinch unbeknownst to nan remainder of nan public. It’s not talked astir enough. They opportunity 22 veterans but correct now nan mathematics is starring toward 44 veterans a time suffer their lives to that conflict – an personality situation of who americium I aft service. So, that’s what it intends to beryllium American for maine now, is showing that support for our veterans, showing that our state is present for them and we’re present to support them and we’re present to springiness them nan resources that they request to unrecorded patient and successful lives aft service."
Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder editor for Fox News Digital.
