Elayna Black: I Wanted To Get To WWE Young, My Goal Was 18

Elayna Black shares how she wanted to get to WWE at a young age, noting she had a goal to get to the company by 18 years old.

Black has been wrestling since her teenage years and would be signed by WWE at 19 years old, debuting as Cora Jade. She would be released from WWE last year, and has now found her footing in TNA as part of their Knockouts division.

While speaking to Jimmy V3 in a new interview, Elayna Black shared how her goal was to get to WWE at a young age, and was just shy of the age she hoped to be when signing with the company.

“Yeah, honestly… obviously it was scary because you don’t ever want to make anybody disappointed in your decisions, and also just taking a risk like that and kind of like just a leap of faith and kind of betting on yourself is also scary, especially being that young. But I think I’ve always just been a very determined person and to a fault sometimes. It doesn’t matter what you tell me. I’m going to do what I want to anyways, and I’m going to make it happen. So it was kind of like, I knew school was never really for me. I knew I didn’t want to go to college. I knew I wanted to make it to WWE early, like early, and I wanted- my goal was 18 and I ended up getting there at 19. So it wasn’t too far off, but that was always my goal. I wanted to get there young.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Elayna spoke about what she plans to do at TNA Slammiversary. You can read more about that here.

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