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Layla El, who won the 2006 WWE Diva Search contest, announced her
retirement from the company Wednesday, ending her employment almost
exactly nine years after it began. A former WWE Women’s and Divas
Champion, Layla was the most-tenured member of the WWE women’s locker
room.
Debuting shortly after winning the 2006 Diva Search Contest – which
also gave us Maryse and Rosa Mendes – Layla made her first impact as
part of Extreme Expose in the relaunched ECW alongside Kelly Kelly and
Brooke Adams. The British beauty made her mark by joining fellow
countryman William Regal, managing him to an Intercontinental
Championship. WWE.com
Layla would then move over to Smackdown, where she and Michelle
McCool would form the WWE’s version of Mean Girls (or TNA’s Beautiful
People), LayCool. The duo would torment women for more than a
year-and-a-half, most notably Mickie James in a widely panned storyline
that made fun of her weight. The team would fracture and split, with
Layla winning a Loser Leaves WWE match against McCool in May 2011.
Layla’s last notable television feud involved Summer Rae as the two
initially battled over, then against, Fandango.
Her decision to retire should not come as a huge surprise. She hasn’t
been featured on WWE programming much during the past year. Her last
televised match was in early June on Main Event, and her last major
program appearance was in a Divas elimination match at Survivor Series
in November. She was still wrestling house shows, as it appears that her
last match was a July 25th loss to Paige in Odessa, Texas.
Layla retires at a time when WWE is undergoing a self-described
“Divas Revolution,” calling up three NXT women – Charlotte, Becky Lynch
and Sasha Banks – which made some of the lesser-used members of the
Divas roster expendable. Perhaps Layla saw the call-ups as a sign that
WWE didn’t have anything planned for her. At the same time, nine years
is a good, lengthy run for a woman in WWE. She had won both women’s
titles and was part of a pretty prominent faction, LayCool during her
time with the company.
Congratulations to Layla on her retirement, and best of luck to her in her life ahead.
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