Twelve seconds, and it’s the most-shared moment from TNA’s Immersed film for a reason. Elayna Black, the former Cora Jade, sits in a black tank top and calmly counts it off: ectopic pregnancy, boyfriend leaves, knee gone, dog dies, then fired a few months later. She even smiles through it.
Cora Jade, now wrestling as Elayna Black in TNA: her viral “back to back to back” story, 11 clips from TNA’s Immersed film, ring gear photos, her career timeline and an FAQ.
Note: This is a photo, career and news hub. Cora Jade has no movie or TV nude scenes, and this page uses only official TNA footage, her public ring and photoshoot images and freely licensed photos. No leaked or private material. She was born in 2001 and is 25.
Updated: October 29, 2026 (Bangkok). New hub with the Immersed: Elayna Black clips (TNA, Oct. 28, 2026) and our story on her viral “ectopic pregnancy, boyfriend leaves me” quote.
Latest news: “Ectopic pregnancy, boyfriend leaves me, lose my knee, dog dies… then I got fired.” The clip with 1.3M views, every fact checked, and my take. Read the Cora Jade story →
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Cora Jade is the WWE name of Chicago wrestler Elayna Black (real name Brianna Coda). She dropped out of school at 15 to train, signed with WWE at 19 in 2021, won the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship with Roxanne Perez in 2022 and became the youngest competitor in NXT WarGames history. WWE released her on May 2, 2025. Since January 2026 she has been a TNA Knockout under her old name, and on October 28, 2026 TNA released Immersed: Elayna Black, a 37-minute film about her life. One line from it, “ectopic pregnancy, boyfriend leaves me, lose my knee, dog dies,” went viral on X the same night.
Cora Jade Latest News (October 2026)
The viral clip at the top of this page is from TNA’s documentary. I checked every part of it against her own interviews and the wrestling press. The ectopic pregnancy was in January 2023, the ACL, MCL and meniscus tear on January 12, 2024, and WWE released her on May 2, 2025. She doesn’t name the boyfriend in the film. Full story with sources: Cora Jade on her “back to back to back” run: ectopic pregnancy, breakup, knee and getting fired.
Her Story: Ectopic Pregnancy, Knee Surgery and Getting Fired
Source: Immersed: Elayna Black (Fight Network / TNA Wrestling, Oct. 28, 2026) | What you see: sit-down interview, hospital videos, archive photos
“Back to back to back”: the full rock-bottom story (2:37)
This is the full story behind the viral clip. Elayna talks about the ruptured ectopic pregnancy, the internal bleeding and the depression that followed, then the film cuts to her hospital-bed videos after ACL, MCL and meniscus surgery in January 2024. Her mom speaks too. Heavy, honest and worth all of it.
WWE body-shaming: “I couldn’t even crack an egg” (1:23)
Before the injuries came the body talk. Elayna says she felt she was doing everything right at the WWE Performance Center but kept getting passed over, and someone told her she would never be champion because she looked like she couldn’t even crack an egg. Then the insecurity set in. Her words, not mine.
Getting fired: “I literally have nothing” (0:21)
The moment WWE let her go. Elayna says she was so scared of losing anything else that she pretended nothing mattered, then the call came and she felt she had lost the literal last thing. The film flashes the headlines from May and June 2025, including that Uncrowned story. Short and raw.
Rock bottom, OnlyFans and new opportunities (1:06)
Rock bottom and what came next. Elayna says getting fired opened doors she had never considered, including OnlyFans, and she’s blunt about it: she didn’t grow up wanting that, her dream was ripped away, and at 24 she jumped on the money and chose to be smart about it. No nudity here, just her talking.
Elayna Black in TNA (2026)
Promotion: TNA Wrestling, Knockouts division | Debut: introduced Jan. 15, 2026, signed Jan. 28, 2026
TNA introduced her on the first AMC episode of Thursday Night iMPACT! and she won her first match under contract against Ruthie Jay on January 29. On August 23 she challenged Xia Brookside for the Knockouts World Championship inside a cage at Lockdown in her hometown of Chicago and lost when Brookside threw powder in her eyes and rolled her up. On October 8 she fought M by Elegance to a 10-minute time-limit draw for the Knockouts TV title.
Lockdown 2026 in Chicago: nerves and the walkout (1:23)
Lockdown 2026 in Chicago, her hometown. Elayna admits she is borderline mid panic attack before every match, then we see her backstage in a red hooded jacket, hands up to the camera, before she walks out for a cage match with the Knockouts World Title on the line. You can feel the nerves and the pride.
Lockdown cage match for the Knockouts World Title (2:24)
Inside the steel cage at Lockdown, August 23, 2026, challenging Xia Brookside for the TNA Knockouts World Championship. The film mixes the match with talking heads from people who have known her for years. She came up short when Xia threw powder in her eyes and rolled her up, but Chicago was behind her.
Signing with TNA, January 2026 (0:54)
January 2026, and Elayna Black puts pen to paper with TNA. She tells the room her first show as a fan was a TNA show back in 2010, that she realised this is where she needs to be, and that TNA is running on her time now. Black fur coat, purple streaks, big smile. Fifty-four seconds.
Ring Gear and Roots
Her old ring gear, “from before everything” (0:20)
My favourite small moment in the film. Elayna pulls out her old ring gear, black, silver and sparkly, and says it’s what she wore before anything horrible happened to her, back when she loved wrestling in a more innocent way. She keeps it so she never forgets who she was before all that.
Her childhood TNA obsession and the Beautiful People (0:59)
Pure fangirl energy, and I love it. Elayna explains how she started watching TNA in 2010, idolised the Beautiful People, and at 13 emailed what she thought was TNA’s creative team pitching herself as their youngest ever member. She checked her inbox every day. Now she’s a TNA Knockout. Full circle.
“I want to be what I needed so desperately as a kid” (1:06)
The ending got me. Elayna sits among bins of her childhood things, a Future Diva sign and old photos, and says she wants to be what she needed as a kid: someone a struggling fan can watch at night and forget their problems for two hours. Then she walks out under the lights. Beautiful.
Cora Jade Photos
Ring gear, photoshoots and entrances: stills from TNA’s Immersed film, a 2026 TNA entrance photo (TNA Wrestling, CC BY 4.0) and an NXT house show photo from December 2021 (CC0), both via Wikimedia Commons.
Cora Jade Career Timeline
- 2009: starts watching wrestling at 8; by 2010 she is watching TNA and idolising the Beautiful People.
- 2018: begins wrestling in Chicago as Elayna Black, trained by Bryce Benjamin, Isaias Velasquez and Mustafa Ali, after dropping out of school at 15.
- 2019: first TNA appearance.
- 2021: signs with WWE at 19 and becomes Cora Jade in NXT.
- July 5, 2022: wins the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship with Roxanne Perez at Great American Bash.
- January 2023: emergency surgery for a ruptured ectopic pregnancy the night before a TV match with Lyra Valkyria. She misses Stand & Deliver.
- January 12, 2024: tears her ACL, MCL and both menisci at a live event against Lyra Valkyria; surgery on January 23.
- May 2, 2025: released by WWE in a round of NXT cuts, along with Gigi Dolin.
- June 2, 2025: first interview after the release, on Uncrowned’s The Ariel Helwani Show.
- Summer 2025: steps away from wrestling, citing anxiety and panic attacks before matches.
- January 15 and 28, 2026: introduced as TNA’s newest Knockout, then officially signed.
- August 23, 2026: loses to Xia Brookside in a Knockouts World Title cage match at Lockdown in Chicago.
- October 8, 2026: time-limit draw with M by Elegance for the Knockouts TV title.
- October 28, 2026: TNA and Fight Network release Immersed: Elayna Black.
Who Is Cora Jade?
Elayna Black grew up in Chicago with a CM Punk shrine in her bedroom and notebooks full of wrestling names and moves. Her mom drove her to training in an unheated Chicago warehouse, sometimes until 2 a.m. In NXT she was the skater-girl Cora Jade, Roxanne Perez’s tag partner and then her rival. Then came a brutal stretch: the ectopic pregnancy, depression, a breakup, the knee, the death of her dog and, a few months after her return, her release.
After WWE she went back to the name Elayna Black, talked openly about body-shaming and mental health, took a break from the ring and started an OnlyFans page. She came back in TNA in January 2026, the company she dreamed of as a kid, and she says she has found her love for wrestling again.
Cora Jade FAQ
Is Cora Jade the same person as Elayna Black?
Yes. Elayna Black is the name she used on the independent scene before WWE and has used again since her release. Cora Jade was her WWE NXT name from 2021 to 2025.
Why did WWE release Cora Jade?
WWE did not give a public reason. She was released on May 2, 2025 in a round of NXT cuts. In the Immersed film she says she “got fired a few months” after returning from her knee injury.
What happened to Cora Jade’s knee?
She tore her ACL, MCL and both menisci at a live event against Lyra Valkyria on January 12, 2024, and had surgery on January 23, 2024.
Where does Cora Jade wrestle now?
In TNA Wrestling as Elayna Black. She was introduced as a Knockout on January 15, 2026 and signed on January 28, 2026.
Does Cora Jade have nude scenes?
No. She is a wrestler with no movie or TV nude scenes. This hub has her ring gear, photoshoot stills, entrances and interview clips only.
How old is Cora Jade?
She was born in 2001 in Chicago, so she is 25 in October 2026.
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