Cora Jade and Roxanne Perez manifested their time in NXT.
The rivalry between Jade and Perez will come to a head at NXT Halloween Havoc when they clash in a Weapons Wild match. Jade and Perez are former NXT Women's Tag Team Champions, but their partnership ended when Jade turned on Perez on the July 12 episode of NXT, costing Perez a chance to win the NXT Championship.
Though the two are rivalries on-screen, their friendship pre-dates NXT and Jade was Perez' biggest cheerleader before she was officially signed.
"Obviously, Roxanne and I have our differences now, but the reason we even became friends to begin with is because we had such a similar story and are close in age. She has the same passion as I do for this and it shows. That's why we connected in so many different ways. I came in before her, but we were still close friends and text all the time. When we became tag champs, we went back in our messages with each other and we manifested this together. 'We're going to be tag champs, we're going to do all this together. One day we'll be like the next Sasha and Bayley.' We had this dream to do it together. We set it out in our heads and now it's unfolding in front of us. It's crazy. She's great," Cora told Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp.
Perez was officially signed by WWE in March 2022 after a run on the Independent scene that saw her win the ROH Women's Championship. When ROH announced it was going on hiatus in October 2021, Jade immediately texted the former Rok-C.
"I texted her that day [ROH went on hiatus]. We started talking and, to our luck, what we planned in our head even years ago, before I even got here, we talked about this. That day, I was like, 'it's time to make our plan come to life.' Luckily, I was at her tryout and helped at her tryout. I was there helping because I wanted her there so bad. 'Please let me help at this tryout. She's coming. She's mine, she's my partner.' It was great to be there and see her. She's great," said Jade.
Jade, who wrestled as Elayna Black on the Independent scene, was signed by WWE in January 2021. Perez was part of the December 2021 WWE tryouts.
Fans can check out the current lineup for NXT Halloween Havoc by clicking here. Fightful will have live coverage of the event beginning at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday.
Watch the full interview with Jade in the video above.
