Elayna Black never planned on becoming a content creator. According to Wrestlezone‘s Ojas Kulkarni, the TNA wrestler, who performed in WWE as Cora Jade before the company released her in 2025, has opened up about why she started an OnlyFans page after losing the job she had chased since childhood.

A dream cut short

The comments come from a documentary posted to TNA Wrestling’s YouTube channel. As eWrestlingNews‘ Akash Dhakite reports, Black said wrestling was the career she wanted above everything else, and her exit forced her to rethink her future.

“I didn’t grow up wanting to be an OnlyFans model. I grew up wanting to be a wrestler,” she said. “And unfortunately for me, my dream was ripped out from under my feet with no control.”

Ringside News notes that wrestling had been her only real ambition since she was eight years old, which is why she says she never pictured herself chasing other business ideas.

Seeing the money and taking it

Black was blunt about the math. “When there was an opportunity to make a lot of money at 25 years old, at the time I was 24 when I got fired, I 100% jumped on it and I’m going to do it and I’m going to be smart about it,” she said, as quoted by TJR Wrestling.

She added that the release opened doors she had never looked at. “I have always been so tunnel vision on wrestling and that’s all I ever wanted to do,” she said. “So, when I did take the break and I started doing OnlyFans as well, I started noticing all these other opportunities coming in that I didn’t even think that I would be interested in.”

The hardest part

Black also pushed back on how some people treat her because of her page. “I think the hardest part honestly is people thinking that they have access to you in a certain type of kind of violating way just because of the content you make,” she said in the remarks reported by Kulkarni. She said the excuse is always that she’s “asking for it,” which she called “absolutely never the case.”

In a separate piece from the same documentary, eWrestlingNews‘ Christopher Paul reports that Black signed with WWE at 19 and became “very, very insecure” about her body during her early years there. She also said she was told she would not be champion in the company because she “looked like I couldn’t even crack an egg.”

The takeaway

Black’s story is a familiar one for athletes and entertainers whose careers end on someone else’s schedule. A subscription page gave her income and leverage at 24, and she’s now back in the ring with TNA while running her own business on the side. Her message to fans is simple: what she posts is her choice, and it doesn’t hand anyone access to her.

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