If there had been WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships around throughout the “Divas” era, it’s secure to say that Layla El and Michelle McCool, aka LayCool, would’ve dominated the division. During their two years as a team, the duo reigned supreme, holding the WWE Women’s Championship and WWE Divas Championship a combined 4 times, while generally being probably the most focused upon women’s act in WWE. While that sometimes had its drawbacks, reminiscent of the controversial “Piggy James” storyline involving LayCool and Mickie James, overall, most individuals remember LayCool fondly, as evident by McCool’s recent induction into the WWE Hall of Fame.
What many may not know, nonetheless, is that the duo had lots of help when it got here to putting the act together. During an appearance on “Wombreezy,” Layla revealed that several key concepts of LayCool were developed with help from other WWE stars, with Dave Batista specifically coming up with the thought for the duo to separate the Divas Championship in two. This briefly led to the hosts believing Batista was instrumental in coming up with the LayCool name, but Layla corrected them, revealing that it was one other top WWE star that helped them out on that front.
“The name was CM Punk,” Layla said. “Yeah, he helped us out with that name. The three of us were standing outside within the corridor and someone was like ‘You have got to get a reputation.’ We’re like ‘Okay, okay.’ After which Punk’s like ‘Come here.’ We’re, like, standing over his hamper, after which he’s, like, writing things down after which we were going to say ‘CoolLay,’ because Michelle, let’s be realistic, she’s the wrestler. She’s, you understand, the strongest one. But everyone was like ‘No.’ After which Punk…spelled it out for us. He was like ‘No, let’s do LayCool.’ Yeah, similar to that.”
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