Deonna Purrazzo: “The AEW audience at this point doesn’t know who The Virtuosa is”
While speaking to Behind The Turnbuckle Studios, AEW star Deonna Purrazzo commented on what she feels is lacking in women’s wrestling. Here is what she had to say…
“We’ve talked a lot about being a character versus being the real person and I think what misses for a lot of women’s wrestling is that character development. We’re not getting vignettes to explain who we are. We’re not watching the women interact with each other in backstage, real-life scenarios.
And so, when you don’t have that, the audience doesn’t invest. The audience doesn’t know. The AEW audience at this point doesn’t know who The Virtuosa, Deonna Purrazzo, is. We haven’t seen a vignette for me in, you know, 18 months, right? So, if I get put on TV, they’re not going to be like, ‘Holy shit, this is awesome!’ and cheer for me because we don’t have that relationship yet.
So, I think across the board for women’s wrestling, it’s developing characters that people relate to or hate. And that’s what’s going to get us those storylines, that’s what’s going to get us more time, and that’s what’s going to get us main events. But we need that character investment. Everyone needs that character investment, but we’re talking specifically about women.”