Layla or Layla El has been a consistent wrestler aka diva of the later stage of the WWE Ruthless Aggression era and she wrestled throughout the PG Era of WWE. She started her WWE career as a contestant of the Diva Search competition in 2006.
She got her first recognition from the fans in 2009 when she paired with Michelle McCool. Their team was known as LayCool and fans loved this team. WWE fans have often seen saying Laycool being a featured team in WWE right now. If they could have a run in the promotion in this time, we could easily see a great Women’s tag team fighting for the Women’s Tag Team championships.
Layla Reflects On Backstage Atmosphere Of WWE During Her Time
Layla recently appeared on Excuse Me: The Vickie Guerrero Podcast where she talked about her days in the WWE and she reveals the backstage atmosphere in WWE during her time. She said,
It was a lot of stress to be honest with you, and you’re always fighting. That was the thing about that area that we were in, the Divas era. I’ve heard other wrestlers or Superstars, females in this generation that have said that the Divas didn’t have to fight for anything, and that things weren’t taken away from us and we weren’t given opportunities.
No. This is the truth. There were two spots. This is it. There were two spots in our Diva era. Luckily, it used to be just on RAW. So then those two girls would come to SmackDown too. They were on RAW and SmackDown, and that was it. Everybody else was just whatever.
Hopefully, you’ll find a guy you can be with or be on a pre-tape. That was it. So then finally, it became that it was two spots on RAW and two spots on SmackDown, and you got to remember, how many girls are in the locker room? There’s a lot of girls in the locker room. 10-15 in each locker room and all of us want to shine, and I get it.
We all want the spot. We all want to shine. We all want to further ourselves. We’re not going to get any younger. We’re all getting older. So I totally understand that, but the fight in you sometimes, even the person who was fighting fighting fighting fighting, we still get no. And girls still came. Michelle and I got told no many a times. It wasn’t like we got what we wanted. We never did get what we wanted.
Layla retired from professional wrestling in 2015 and after that, she worked as a real estate agent. In her nine-year WWE career, she won the WWE Women’s Championship once and the WWE Divas Championship once. She had been pretty fun to watch throughout her career.
Credit: Excuse Me: The Vickie Guerrero Podcast. H/T 411Mania.