9 Superstars who wanted WWE to release them

#4. Deonna Purrazzo - Desperate to leave WWE

The IMPACT Knockouts Champion

Former WWE star Deonna Purrazzo has not only found a new lease on life at IMPACT Wrestling, but she's thriving - and it took her far lesser time than most Superstars released by WWE.

The Greatest Technical Women’s Wrestler in the World. #Virtuosa 👁 pic.twitter.com/hdr6V6I5Gq

— The Virtuosa (@DeonnaPurrazzo) September 3, 2020

Deonna Purrazzo was picked up by IMPACT Wrestling following her WWE release and the promotion recognized the kind of talent they had in their hands. Wasting no time, they put the IMPACT Wrestling Knockouts Championship on her and the timing worked out well since Tessa Blanchard had just departed the promotion abruptly.

Deonna Purrazzo was vocal about her dislike for the way she was utilized in NXT and WWE in general. Primarily an enhancement talent, she told the Busted Open podcast that the Deonna Purazzo we saw in WWE wasn't the "real" version of herself:

I think the Deonna that you saw, and the world saw, in Ring of Honor and IMPACT is truly who I am. The person I've been able to put on the screen is the person I believe in. It's the truest form of me, you know, elevated. At NXT, it was very much a runaround. 'You need a character. Okay, well that's too much character. You have to be the real you, but the real you isn't believable'. I just gotten to a point where there's nothing I can do right, and now I feel defeated in me. H/T: WINC

Add “Best Dressed” to my list of accolades. #Virtuosa 👁 @IMPACTWRESTLING pic.twitter.com/38RaLj0Y56

— The Virtuosa (@DeonnaPurrazzo) September 2, 2020

Deonna Purrazzo was desperate to get out of WWE and she got the release that she desired. It all worked out well for her.