During a recent appearance on The Digital Social Hour, AEW’s Deonna Purrazzo discussed how much creative input wrestlers have over their storylines, stating that it often depends on their status within the company.
“Yeah, it kind of depends on where you are,” Purrazzo said. “Like for me, I don’t get too much input in that, but there are women above me at AEW that do get more input. So it kind of just depends where you come from, what your status is, and things like that.”
She pointed to AEW TBS Champion Mercedes Moné as a key example of a wrestler who has earned that level of influence.
“Right now, Mercedes Moné… kind of gets that open forum to be like, ‘I’d like to work with this person,’ and, ‘These are my ideas,’ and then the writers kind of — not necessarily conform — but they do listen to what she has to say.”
Purrazzo added that she sees this as a positive trend. “I definitely think that women are growing in that position in our industry. It just takes role models to be like, ‘I’m going to break that mold… I’m going to get myself in that position to then let other people follow in their footsteps.’”
