Cora Jade (Elayna Black) Thought She Was Going To End Up In AEW Before WWE Made An Offer

In 2020, Cora Jade (Elayna Black) had two matches on AEW Dark, taking on Red Velvet in a singles bout and teaming with Leyla Hirsch to face Red Velvet & Brandi Rhodes. 

Shortly after the matches, she ended up signing with WWE.

“I was doing AEW for a few weeks, or a month or two, before my WWE tryout and I thought I was going to end up at AEW,” Cora recalled to Ariel Helwani on The Ariel Helwani Show. “I did a few dark matches. I loved it there. I thought I was going to end up there first. It was the end of 2020, I was kind of picking up steam on the indies and people were doing Dark. I felt like I was going to end up there, and I wanted to end up there. I’m very big into manifestation. This is embarrassing to say now, but I made a fake Elayna Black Is All Elite logo. I put it above my bed so whenever I went to bed, I would manifest before bed. Then it just ended up being, I got the WWE tryout the same month I was doing AEW and WWE made me an offer before AEW, so I took it. Either way, I knew I wanted to be in a big wrestling company. I’ve been a lifelong WWE fan, so I wanted to be there as well, but I knew at that time I was manifesting something and I was always going to end up somewhere.”

Cora is a free agent after being released by WWE in May. 

Elsewhere during the interview, Cora commented on potentially joining AEW. You can find her full comments here. 

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