{"id":748777,"date":"2026-06-20T04:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748777\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T04:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:52:09","slug":"deonna-purrazzo-myla-grace-call-out-tnas-aj-francis-for-online-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748777\/","title":{"rendered":"Deonna Purrazzo, Myla Grace call out TNA\u2019s AJ Francis for online comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AJ Francis was blessed with size, charisma, and a gift for drawing heat\u2014in the ring and in the locker room alike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to defend some of TNA\u2019s recent roster moves, Francis took to social media on Friday to explain why some wrestlers had left the company lately. That drew feedback from some of his peers who weren\u2019t happy he was publicly discussing their private business.<\/p>\n<p>It all started innocently enough. Francis was celebrating that Allie and Tasha Steelz had re-signed with TNA and wanted others to join him. \u201cMake sure y\u2019all report [Allie] and Tasha re-signing as loudly and proudly as y\u2019all report people being granted their release that they asked for,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AJFrancis410\/status\/2067766359237255416\" rel=\"nofollow\">he wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then a fan responded, asking why Francis had not reported why so many TNA wrestlers had asked for their release lately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuz they tell their own stories,\u201d Francis <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AJFrancis410\/status\/2067988672792711568\" rel=\"nofollow\">responded<\/a>. He said the departing wrestlers all had different reasons for leaving: Steph DeLander wanted to wrestle but TNA wouldn\u2019t medically clear her; Myla Grace was \u201cnot on TV\u201d; Steve Maclin \u201cdoesn\u2019t like creative after being champ for 216 days of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deonna Purrazzo, the current Ring of Honor Women\u2019s Pure Champion and also Maclin\u2019s wife, wasn\u2019t happy about this. She said Francis\u2019 post was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DeonnaPurrazzo\/status\/2068011655905071313\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cincredibly passive aggressive,\u201d<\/a> and that he should let wrestlers tell their stories \u201cand don\u2019t do this sh*t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francis responded that he had spoken to Maclin <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AJFrancis410\/status\/2068060447433953547\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201clike a man\u201d<\/a> and was only speaking facts. Purrazzo <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DeonnaPurrazzo\/status\/2068068647864553819\" rel=\"nofollow\">replied<\/a> that Maclin \u201cdoesn\u2019t need to spew \u2018facts\u2019 on social media.\u201d Francis made <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AJFrancis410\/status\/2068071165084438985\" rel=\"nofollow\">one more post,<\/a> closing by saying \u201cThis social media sh*t don\u2019t mean nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace also joined in the conversation. \u201cLots of love but this isn\u2019t accurate,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MylaGrace_x\/status\/2068004451219128658\" rel=\"nofollow\">she wrote.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am aware,\u201d Francis <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AJFrancis410\/status\/2068010528014762221\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote back.<\/a>j franc \u201cAs we have talked many times about it and that\u2019s my point. THEY don\u2019t know either but they pretend they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Indi Hartwell (who also recently re-signed with TNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/indi_hartwell\/status\/2068028781562904873\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared a GIF<\/a> of one man swiping a phone out of the hands of another.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Francis has had a public dispute with a colleague. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightful.com\/wrestling\/aj-francis-on-swerve-strickland-lets-talk-about-what-actually-happened\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last summer<\/a> he went on the record on his beef with Swerve Strickland from when they worked together in WWE.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"preferred-source-link\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Google-CTA.jpg\" alt=\"Google Icon\" class=\"google-icon\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/tna-wrestling\/sami-callihan-went-off-tna-management-after-firing\/?utm_source=navigation-previous&amp;utm_medium=internal\" class=\"gms-prev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AJ Francis was blessed with size, charisma, and a gift for drawing heat\u2014in the ring and in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-748777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}