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Deonna Purrazzo Details Training With The Rock’s Daughter Simone Johnson

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Impact Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo has talked about what it was like training with The Rock’s daughter Simeone Johnson. Johnson, was one of many performance centre recruits who signed back in February of last year.

Speaking to Stephanie Chase, here is what Purrazzo had to say on training with Johnson:

“Yeah, that was really cool. And that was probably like a year or so after Simone had already been training at the PC [Performance Centre]. And, Simone is great and Simone loves wrestling and loves to pick people’s brains and Simone was always asking , “could you stay and like do some extra training with me?” Or, you know, Sara Amatto would ask me to stay and do some extra training and really help her. And, when we did get paired up together it was fun because she’s learning wrestling before my eyes, and to be able to give back a little bit and teach her the right way and for her to know she’d be safe and she can ask the questions and she’s not going to get hurt and, she’s really being taught the right way to go about wrestling, I am honoured to have been a part of that. I think giving back is so important and especially, you know it’s Simone, so that’s The Rock’s daughter, so that’s cool because you’re really teaching this generational wrestler who hopefully one day is going to go on and be a star but also carve out her own path. There was just so many elements that were really cool.” 

Deonna Purrazzo would then detail one very specific time, where The Rock came to visit the PC when she was training with Simeone.

“When The Rock came, no one knew. And, you know, the women’s coach Sarah Amatto had come up to me and said “hey we’re gonna partner you up with Simone today, this is kind of the drill we’re going to do, just so you know ahead of time.” And,  I was like “yeah okay like no problem”,  we had been working together for quite a few training sessions at that point, during the weeks. And then, we all got training, it was kind of a day, like an all in day so everyone had to be at the PC there was every class going at once and The Rock, just kind of walked around and was watching and then Simone and I, it was our turn to go in and he was sitting ringside and it was like, “Oh crap”. But it was also kind of like, I want to make her look good in front of her dad, and I want her to shine into him to see her kick-ass, you know, be a superstar. So, again I was honoured to be able to do that. And then, I got to meet with him and him critique what we did and things like that. That is a once in a lifetime opportunity that will probably never ever happen for me again. And for that to be on YouTube and kind of out there and people get to see that moment is really special for me.”

You can check out the video of The Rock visiting the Performance Centre here. Purrazzo was released from her NXT contract in April last year. However, in the time since she has gone from strength-to-strength, and will defend her Impact Knockouts Champion this weekend at Slammiversary.

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You can check out Stephanie Chase’s full interview with Deonna Purrazzo below:

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