LayCool

LayCool
Layla (left) and McCool (right) appearing at the 2010 Tribute to The Troops event
Tag team
Members	Michelle McCool (leader) Layla Vickie Guerrero (manager; 2010) Kaval (rookie; 2010)
Name(s)	LayCool Team LayCool
Debut	July 3, 2009
Disbanded	May 1, 2011
Years active	2009–2011
Promotions	WWE

LayCool (sometimes stylized Lay-Cool) was a villainous women's professional wrestling tag team consisting of Layla El and Michelle McCool. The women worked for WWE and were featured primarily on the SmackDown brand but appeared on the Raw brand on some occasions, while they were champions and were also part of the second season of NXT, mentoring the male wrestler Kaval, who won the competition.

They first began teaming together in June 2009 but did not become a proper team until the end of the year. The two were portrayed as narcissistic and vain bullies, constantly espousing their own perfection while ganging up on others and attacking their looks. They were a successful team, having won both women's titles available in WWE, the WWE Women's Championship, which they retired when they unified it with the WWE Divas Championship; both titles they claimed to hold as a tag team though this is not officially recognized. The group did court some controversy, however, receiving criticism from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter for what it considered the most disgusting promotional tactic regarding a storyline in which they bullied Mickie James for her supposed weight issues.

In May 2011, after nearly two years together, the team disbanded following several disagreements, at which point Layla defeated McCool in a Loser Leaves WWE match.

Though Layla and McCool had been tagging together over the summer of 2009 (due a part feud of McCool with Melina over the Women's Championship until she was traded back to Raw), they did not become a unit and display signs of a similar character and gimmick until the end of the year when Mickie James moved to SmackDown. James defeated Layla in her first match back on the show on October 23, while reigning Women's Champion McCool snubbed Mickie James when picking Divas to represent SmackDown against Raw in a Bragging Rights interbrand tag team match, when her team won. Layla and McCool appeared in a backstage segment on the November 6 episode of SmackDown threatening to make life difficult for James unless she left the brand. They began doing so the following week, by bringing James' clothes to the ringside and cutting them, distracting her enough to lose the match she was in. With James refusing to leave the brand, the situation escalated the following week as McCool began mocking James' weight and agricultural background. After James won a match against Layla, McCool appeared in a cartoon video that depicted James as a pig, renaming her Piggie James as both LayCool would continue to do, while singing a parody of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" and a parody of The Porky Pig Bass Drum Outro With The Catchphrase Th-Th-Th-Th-That's All Folks. Portraying James As Porky . This particular segment garnered criticism from journalists, describing it as disgusting and despicable.