Former multi-time IMPACT Knockouts World Champion is feeling good about her prospects in 2024. It was confirmed that her contract with IMPACT/TNA is up by the first of the new year.
While speaking with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, Purrazzo talks about her feelings with her current status. She is in a much better mindset over when she first came to IMPACT after her WWE release. She has been working with not only IMPACT for the past three and a half years but various promotions.
“I feel really confident, I guess, it’s a good way to put it. The last time we talked about anything contract-related with me, I was in a really weird place. I had just been released from NXT, I wasn’t sure what my future held, and in the course of the last almost four years since that conversation, I feel like I’ve done a lot of career rehab. I’ve been able to, obviously, become a five-time World Champion, I’ve been able to work with, obviously IMPACT, but AAA, AEW, and Ring of Honor,” she said.
“It’s been incredible. I feel like everything I’ve been able to do over the last three-and-a-half years has put me in a really great position to have some really great conversations with a lot of different people and I feel really confident going into the new year.”
It can be risky to ever leave one place for another, but for The Virtuosa she feels she needs to explore what all is out there. She’s at a good place with IMPACT and has seen major success there.
“It’s scary, again, because there’s so many factors to weigh. Being with Steve [Maclin], being in an environment that I’m used to, and I’m comfortable in,” she said. “I kind of, at IMPACT, I can’t do anything wrong. Not that I have a lot of power, but I know how I could leverage some things there. I’m in a really great position. Scott [D’Amore] and I have a great relationship and to leave all that behind would be very scary, but I also think that’s how we grow as humans, right? We have to say, ‘I’ve succeeded here. I’ve been at a top level here for the entire time I’ve been here. Is it time to go somewhere else?’ If this was the territory days, right now would be the time to go until stories elsewhere. So I have to weigh that, too.
“Like I said earlier, the experiences I’ve had throughout my entire career, but specifically the last two to four years, have really allowed me to have conversations I didn’t think I would ever have with people again,” she continued.
“I wasn’t welcome in a lot of places when I left WWE if we’re being honest. So to be able to talk to those people that I’ve been able to talk to you has been really settling for my soul and I just know that I am wanted and time heals all wounds and that feels really good.” (Fightful)
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