With less than two months to go until the September 1st All In event from the Sears Centre in Chicago, Illinois, the status of one of the previously announced participants had seemingly become up in the air. Three months ago, independent stand-out Deonna Purrazzo had announced that she was “All In” (check that out here), however at the tail end of May it was reported that she had signed a contract with WWE (read about that here). It was added later that she was expected to begin at the Performance Center in Orlando some time in July (for more on that go here), all signs pointing towards her likely no longer competing at All In.

Cody Rhodes, who is producing the show with The Young Bucks (and perhaps some other help) responded to a fan question last night on Twitter, confirming that Deonna is no longer able to be at All In:

Deonna is unable to do All In. We love her. She’s phenomenal. She’s kicking ass/breaking arms no matter where you see her.

— Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) July 3, 2018

EA’s Take: No big surprise here, there was never a chance that WWE was going to let her work that show, no matter what kind of strides they’ve made with other promotions. There’s been some talk that WWE had been trying to sign people in order to prevent them from appearing at All In and I believe that all really started here. You could maybe throw MJF into that mix, but if I’m remembering correctly, he was already under contract to MLW before he was “All In” (which reportedly hasn’t stopped WWE from offering him a deal). Personally, I’ll never understand why any company as big as WWE would ever be so worried about another event that they’d just blindly sign people to keep them away. Whether you believe that’s the case here is up to you. I’d just hate for that to turn into some kind of narrative for Deonna because it’s not like she isn’t talented.

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