Long may she reign.
Deonna Purrazzo recently reached a new milestone as she has now surpassed 500 days total as IMPACT Wrestling Knockouts Champion. Purrazzo is on her third reign as champion, which is currently at 60 days and counting.
Her three reigns combined total 501 days (as of press time) and she recently took time to comment on the occasion:
Purrazzo’s second reign as Knockouts Champion ran for 343 days, only 35 days shy of surpassing the single reign record held by Taya Valkyrie. Purrazzo recently spoke with WrestleZone and said she believes she could beat that record, but she has another one in her sights.
“I definitely think that it’s in the back of my mind of like, ‘okay, I did it before. I can definitely do it again,’ but I think more so for me, the number that sticks in my mind is I believe it’s 711. That is the number of days combined that Gail Kim held the Knockouts World Championship over seven reigns. She’s number one in combined days as a champion. So that, I think, is the next number for me where it’s like if I’m at four hundred plus now, can I beat 711?”
Deonna Purrazzo also passed Mickie James for combined days as champion, putting her second place behind Kim. Purrazzo is extremely proud to get an edge over James, who she still said was an integral part of IMPACT’s Knockouts division.
“I will take pride in any little bit thing bigger than that I could do compared to Mickie James,” she said. “I think she’s, what, five-time Knockouts champion? That’s an incredible feat. And I think our division is better for having Mickie James in it. Although she’s my, like I said, biggest thorn in my side, my biggest rival, the person I cannot beat. I beat pretty much everyone in this division at some point over the last three years, but Mickie James. So, just to have that little bit of edge over her, I can play a little bit of mind games with that. If ‘The Virtuosa’ can come up with some way to make that a part of my strategy, then that’s what I’m going to do. That’s what I do best.”
