On a recent episode of the “The Digital Social Hour” podcast, professional wrestler Deonna Purrazzo detailed the extent of creative influence that certain AEW wrestlers possess. Deonna expressed her yearning to achieve this level of contribution, referencing Mercedes Mone as a successful example of a wrestler whose creative ideas are heeded and incorporated by writers and producers when crafting storylines. She stated,
“Yeah, it kind of depends on where you are. 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. Right now, Mercedes Mone, who was Sasha Banks in WWE, 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. I don’t necessarily have that type of pull per se, but 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 push that boundary. I’m going to get myself in that position to then let other people follow in their footsteps.“
You can watch the full episode featuring Deonna Purrazzo discussing how to create engaging stories in the link below [embedded content].
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