Deonna Purrazzo touts Ring of Honor as having 'great women's wrestling,' should be seen as landing spot

Deonna Purrazzo was credited with helping restart the women’s part successful Ring of Honor (ROH) erstwhile she joined the institution successful 2015. She was featured successful 1 of the archetypal women’s matches successful the company’s past successful astir a decennary astatine the time.

She spent 3 years with the 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 instrumentality to Ring of Honor, she was thrust into a tourney to find the archetypal ROH women’s axenic champion.

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Deonna Purrazzo celebrates aft winning her lucifer during AEW Collision connected June 15, 2024, astatine the Covelli Centre successful Youngstown, Ohio. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)

In December, Purrazzo defeated Billie Starkz to beryllium crowned the champion and has held the rubric ever since.

As a question of caller wrestlers deed the free-agent marketplace implicit the past 2 weeks, Purrazzo touted the opportunities that Ring of Honor has for women’s wrestlers – thing that was "really important" to the New Jersey native.

"I deliberation what’s truthful large astir Ring of Honor is that it kinda flies nether the radar a small bit," she told Fox News Digital. "So, you get to truly make and archer stories and amusement property and possibly effort thing antithetic than you would if you were connected ‘Dynamite’ each azygous week. I deliberation that determination is truly large 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 recognition online that it deserves for what it’s doing and the intent it’s serving for women’s wrestling, which is, again, truly important to me, starting successful Ring of Honor, starting the women’s part 11 years ago.

"To get to spot aggregate women each azygous week turn and develop, I deliberation it’s truly important and I deliberation that if much radical saw it arsenic a landing spot, we tin possibly turn that cognition successful the public’s eyes."

Athena sits astatine the apical of the women’s part successful ROH. She’s held the ROH Women’s World Championship for much than 1,200 days. Red Velvet is the existent ROH Women’s World Television Championship and has held it for much than 150 days.

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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 the accidental to assistance veterans and first-responders successful need.

She and her husband, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling prima Steve Maclin, are putting connected the Battle for the Brave connected June 6. The foundation lawsuit volition payment the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

Purrazzo stressed however important giving backmost to subject veterans was to her successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital earlier this week, particularly arsenic a subject wife. Maclin served successful the 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 recognize what was going connected but successful the days after, I felt a consciousness of unity successful that everyone came together, everyone was arrogant to beryllium an American, and we were going to combat backmost and basal unneurotic and beryllium one, agreed country. And I deliberation that, that feeling has ever stuck with maine but being a veteran’s wife, it’s taken connected a wholly antithetic role.

"Steve opening up astir his work and things he’s seen and experienced with maine has fixed maine a caller passionateness to fto veterans cognize that, yes, warfare volition ever travel location with you but it doesn’t person to specify you. Steve was truthful fortunate that helium was capable to find wrestling close aft helium got retired of the Marine Corps and it saved him, successful a way, from falling down the 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)

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"And I deliberation that’s thing that our veterans woody with unbeknownst to the remainder of the public. It’s not talked astir enough. They accidental 22 veterans but close present the mathematics is starring toward 44 veterans a time suffer their lives to that conflict – an individuality situation of who americium I aft service. So, that’s what it means to beryllium American for maine now, is showing that enactment for our veterans, showing that our state is present for them and we’re present to enactment them and we’re present to springiness them the resources that they request to unrecorded steadfast and palmy lives aft service."