History Wrestling / Layla

** Most famously with [[Characters/WWEDivas Michelle McCool]], as Wrestling/LayCool.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: During the feud with Summer Rae, it was sometimes unclear which of them was meant to be the face or the heel. Sometimes it seemed to switch every week. But when the Slayers formed they seemed to be faces - as they helped other face wrestlers get wins against Fandango. Further complicating matters was them facing AJ Lee and Paige who at the time were both tweeners. And they worked as faces for a 6-Diva tag on Raw - and ''the very next night'' they were heels against Rosa Mendes (who had been heel against them on Raw).

* AttentionWhore: She ruined Kaitlyn's chances of regaining the women's championship and sided with AJ because she wanted to be in the center of events. (and rightfully so it did not last long, AJ being crazy and all)

* AlphaBitch: With Lena Yada against Kelly Kelly on ECWWE. To the entire division with Michelle [=McCool=] later, though she was more like the BetaBitch then.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Melina Perez was presented this way up until Layla pinned her after Michelle [=McCool=] struck Melina with a crutch, she wouldn't get a clean win though for years to come. This was also the basis of her rivalry with junior diva search winner Eve Torres, whom Layla never did get a decisive win over, not even in arm wrestling or dance offs. It was one of her losses to Eve that actually broke up Laycool.

* TheAtoner: Post-Wrestling/{{LayCool}}

* DavidVersusGoliath: During Wrestling/{{LayCool}} vs Wrestling/BethPhoenix and [[Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart Natalya]]. Oddly, it was a heel David vs. face Goliaths. Played straight when face Layla defended her title against heel Beth in 2012.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: By the end of Lay Cool. Her desperate pleas for mercy whilst being crushed by Beth Phoenix/Natalya and her utter devotion to Michelle [=McCool=] got her over with the fans.

* SmallNameBigEgo: When part of [=LayCool=]

** Most famously with [[Characters/WWEDivas Michelle McCool]], as Wrestling/{{LayCool}}.

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* ObnoxiousSnarker: From Laycool onward this has never really left her.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She is nearly forty but still looks like she did in her twenties. As if to hammer it in, Layla, with the departures of Wrestling/KellyKelly and Wrestling/BethPhoenix back in 2012, was the longest-tenured active diva on the roster, having been in the WWE since ''2006'', up until her retirement in 2015[[note]]With the new longest-tenured Diva being Natalya, who has been in WWE since May 2008[[/note]]. Yet she hasn't aged a day since she's first arrived in the WWE.

'''Layla El''' (born 25 June 1977) is a retired English professional wrestler. She was signed to WWE, where she performs as '''Layla'''. She became part of WWE as part of the Divas Search of 2006 (which she won) and is a former Divas Champion. She is most well-known for being one half of the heel duo Wrestling/LayCool.

!!Tropes:

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: In a bit of a possible TakeThat at Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s Wrestling/AJStyles, Layla [[InTheHood wears a hood]] during her entrance.

* ArchEnemy: It ''was'' Summer Rae in early 2014, but the two have now teamed up against their mutual enemy, Fandango.

* ButNotTooForeign: Layla seems to have lost most of her accent as she has a tendency to sound very...American at times.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When Wrestling/LayCool properly became a thing, she stopped wearing her hair curly and always had it straight. She gave herself bangs around the time she won the Women's Championship and was taken more seriously as a competitor. When she returned from injury as a {{Face}} her hair had grown to waist length.

* FiveMovesOfDoom: Flying clotheslines, spinning facebuster, LOL and often she'll throw a kick which the opponent will duck but she'll get them with a second kick.

* GenkiGirl: Always as a face. Sometimes as a heel, depending on whether she wants to be an AlphaBitch or a LargeHam.
* GlassCannon: Poor Layla has probably spent more of her career on the shelf than in the ring.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She is nearly forty but still looks like she did in her twenties. As if to hammer it in, Layla, with the departures of Wrestling/KellyKelly and Wrestling/BethPhoenix back in 2012, was the longest-tenured active diva on the roster, having been in the WWE since ''2006'', up until her retirement in 2015. Yet she hasn't aged a day since she's first arrived in the WWE.

* SignatureMove: An armdrag into a chain of holds she calls infinity (always end in a pin but what kind of pin varies on how long she decides to keep it going), also a triple jump crossbody she call LOL (Lots Of Layla). A spinning facebuster once she turned face.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Despite trying to sound more American, her old accent is still mixed in with it.

'''Layla El''' (born 25 June 1977) is an English professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she performs as '''Layla'''. She became part of WWE as part of the Divas Search of 2006 (which she won) and is a former Divas Champion. She is most well-known for being one half of the heel duo Wrestling/LayCool.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She is nearly forty but still looks like she did in her twenties. As if to hammer it in, Layla, with the departures of Wrestling/KellyKelly and Wrestling/BethPhoenix back in 2012, is now the longest-tenured active diva on the roster, having been in the WWE since ''2006''. Considering how seniority determines who leads the locker room, that makes Layla the current leader of the divas' locker room. Yet she hasn't aged a day since she's first arrived in the WWE.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She is 37 but looks to still be in her 20s.
** As if to hammer it in, Layla, with the departures of Wrestling/KellyKelly and Wrestling/BethPhoenix back in 2012, is now the longest-tenured active diva on the roster, having been in the WWE since ''2006''. Considering how seniority determines who leads the locker room, that makes Layla the current leader of the divas' locker room. Yet she hasn't aged a day since she's first arrived in the WWE.

''Layla El'' (born 25 June 1977) is an English professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she performs as '''Layla'''. She became part of WWE as part of the Divas Search of 2006 (which she won) and is a former Divas Champion. She is most well-known for being one half of the heel duo Wrestling/LayCool.

Layla El (born 25 June 1977) is an English professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she performs as '''Layla'''. She became part of WWE as part of the Divas Search of 2006 (which she won) and is a former Divas Champion. She is most well-known for being one half of the heel duo Wrestling/LayCool.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Layla seems to be much nicer in real life than on TV. She's often named as the favourite Diva from the troops whenever WWE go over there. A glance at out-of-character interviews show her to be very friendly and bubbly.

* FinishingMove: A back neck breaker she calls the Layout. Sometimes done after a flip from the corner. She also has a roundhouse kick she calls the bombshell.

* SignatureMove: An armdrag into a chain of holds she calls infinity (always end in a pin but what kind of pin varies on how long she decides to keep it going), also a double jump crossbody she call LOL (Lots Of Layla).

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Layla as of [[http://instagram.com/p/UvvW0vHlQ4/ December 2012]].
* DavidVersusGoliath: During Lay Cool vs Beth Phoenix and Natalya. Oddly, it was a heel David vs. face Goliaths. Played straight when Face Layla defended her title against Heel Beth in 2012.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: As far as we can tell, Layla is much nicer in real life than on TV.
** She's often named as the favourite Diva from the troops whenever WWE go over there. A glance at out-of-character interviews show her to be very friendly and bubbly.

* TagTeam: With Michelle [=McCool=] as part of Wrestling/{{LayCool}}.
** With Summer Rae as the [=SLayers=].

* AbortedArc: Layla and Kaitlyn showed signs of tension with Layla seemingly being jealous over Kaitlyn's title win and Kaitlyn not happy about Layla blind tagging herself into a match. It never went anywhere and they were back to being friends in a few weeks.

* ButNotTooBlack: During the diva search introduction interviews she claimed her curly hair was not from African descent, which a few sources on the internet saw as an invitation to argue otherwise.

* DavidVersusGoliath: During Lay Cool vs Beth Phoenix and Natalya. Oddly, it was a heel David vs. face Goliaths.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: As far as we can tell, Layla is much nicer in real life than on TV.

* TwoferTokenMinority: She's a woman of Moroccan and Spanish decent.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: As far as we can tell, Layla is much nicer than her character.

* ButNotTooForeign: Layla seems to have lost most of her accent as she has a tendency to sound very...America at times.

Layla El (born 25th of June, 1977) is an English professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she performs as '''Layla'''. She became part of WWE as part of the Divas Search of 2006 (which she won) and is a former Divas Champion. She is most well-known for being one half of the heel duo Wrestling/LayCool.

! Tropes:

* DarkActionGirl: She had the fastest jump to actual, decent competition of any diva search winner but did not really take off till she got nasty.

* TwoferTokenMinority: She's a woman of Moroccan and Spanish decent.

* ArchEnemy: As of 2014, it's Summer Rae.