Elayna Black: I Grew Up Wanting To Be Both A WWE Diva And TNA Knockout, I Loved Both

Elayna Black shares how she wanted to be both a TNA Knockout and a WWE Diva while growing up, wanting to experience both divisions.

Elayna has been a member of both rosters in her short wrestling career so far, first signing with WWE at age 19 before signing with TNA as a Knockout earlier this year.

While speaking to Jimmy V3 in a new interview, Elayna Black spoke about wanting to be both a WWE diva and a TNA Knockout when she was growing up.

“I was eight, nine years old saying, I want to be a WWE Diva and a TNA Knockout. Like I always wanted to do both. I remember I would say like, cause I wanted to experience both. I knew I was either going to start at TNA and go to WWE or I was going to go to WWE and go to TNA. I always wanted to do both. It was always my dream because I loved both. I loved TNA. I thought it was sick. I grew up loving, you know, Mickie James, The Beautiful People, anyone under the sun. I loved TNA. So it’s very cool to see them kind of merge together because when I first started watching, I think TNA was on Spike at the time, and at the time there was no… AEW didn’t exist or any other really big wrestling promotion that was on TV. So WWE and TNA were the two people would watch and it was kind of like they were in competition a little bit, and, people were watching and comparing and everything like that. So now to see their partners, I think it’s so cool and something that people probably never expected and now we get to merge the best of both worlds. I think it’s cool, especially if you grew up a fan of both companies like I did, and to kind of see the change and everything over the years is really cool.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Elayna spoke about wanting to sign with WWE at age 18. You can read more about that here.

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