Former WWE PC recruit accuses Cora Jade of bullying; Jade denies

A former WWE Performance Center recruit has publicly accused a peer, Cora Jade, of being a bully during their time at the company’s development facility, renewing scrutiny of backstage culture within WWE’s system. Jade, who wrestled under the Elayna Black name after leaving WWE, has pushed back, arguing that the allegations mischaracterize interactions at the PC and describing the atmosphere as carrying “heat” for behavior she says was disrespectful rather than bullying.

Alexis Lete joined WWE as a Performance Center recruit in August 2022 and was released in September 2023 without advancing to NXT. In a recent appearance on That One Time, Lete described what she saw as a pattern of mistreatment from Jade and friction with Roxanne Perez, who was a friend of Jade. Lete said Perez was “such a sweet human,” but suggested Perez felt pressured by her friendship with Jade. More pointedly, Lete revisited an incident in which Jade allegedly pressed her to remove a TikTok video, arguing that she was not exposing kayfabe but simply sharing an aspect of her work. “Take down a TikTok video,” Lete recalled Jade asking, and she pushed back, saying the post did not reveal industry secrets....