When it comes to main event slots on AEW Dynamite, they generally end up knocking it out of the park. There are exceptions to this however, and this past week – the show ended up on a bit of a weak note, as two fairly unfamiliar names were able to take top of a show. Deonna Purrazzo was one of these ladies, and was unable to work through the pressure put onto her in her AEW debut.
Deonna Purrazzo Cracked Under The Unfamiliar Pressure That Came With The Main Event Spot
Speaking on the Universal Wrestling podcast, Deonna Purrazzo would explain how the pressure got to her in her AEW debut. She was put into a main event slot on AEW Dynamite, where she battled Mercedes Martinez to determine the Undisputed Ring of Honor Women’s World Champion.
“Yeah, it was like the lead up to it all day. We didn’t know what the card looked like or where we were gonna be. It’s funny because Mercedes and I were like ‘We might be the main event, we’re the biggest thing on the advertisement’. But gosh, I don’t wanna be in that spot, that’s a lot of pressure.
Then, at like 5 O’Clock they’re like ‘You guys are the main event’. A lot of pressure. IMPACT does our live pay-per-views, there’s like four every year. Then we do these app specials that are live, but I don’t necessarily do live TV every week like people on AEW are.
It was even more pressure for me to be like ‘Can I still do this?’, I hadn’t done live TV since NXT, so that’s two years. I was like ‘Oh gosh, we have a commercial break and we have a Picture in Picture’. There’s so many faucets to this that we have to get right because we’re the main event, but I think it turned out really really great. I think that I got to put my best foot forward and IMPACT’s best foot forward. It’s just a really exciting time right now.”
At the end of the day, the match was functionally fine – just lacking in crowd reactions across the board. Martinez would get the win, and Purrazzo returned to Impact Wrestling.
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