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LayCool
LayCool (sometimes stylized Lay-Cool) was a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Layla and Michelle McCool. The team 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 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 Newslette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layla El
Layla El (born 25 June 1977) is an English retired Professional wrestling, professional wrestler, dancer and Model (person), model. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, under the mononymous ring name Layla. She danced for Carnival Cruise Lines, the Miami Heat franchise of the National Basketball Association, and Kanye West during his performance at the MTV Video Music Awards before becoming a contestant on the 2006 edition of WWE's ''WWE Diva Search, Diva Search'', which she won to earn a contract with the company. Initially appearing on the SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown WWE brand extension, brand, El moved to WWE ECW, ECW in January 2007. There, she formed the WWE ECW#Recurring segments, Extreme Exposé dance troupe with Kelly Kelly and Brooke Tessmacher, Brooke Adams. In 2008, she was drafted to the WWE Raw, Raw brand, where she began managing William Regal. The following year, she returned to SmackDown and formed an alliance with Michelle McCool known as LayCool. In M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vickie Guerrero
Vickie Lynn Benson (formerly Guerrero, née Lara;Guerrero, Eddie. ''Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story'', p. 53. born April 16, 1968), better known as Vickie Guerrero, is an American former professional wrestling personality and manager. She is best known for her tenures in WWE and All Elite Wrestling (AEW). She was born in El Paso, Texas. In wrestling, she has appeared as an on-screen authority figure, storyline lover to several WWE wrestlers, professional wrestler in the WWE Divas division, and as a manager for numerous wrestlers. She was best known in her role as general manager of SmackDown from 2007 to 2011, and of Raw from 2011 to 2013. Since leaving WWE in 2014, she has made sporadic appearances in the company. She is known for her villainous persona and igniting negative reactions from audiences with her catchphrase, "Excuse me!". She is the widow of professional wrestler Eddie Guerrero, which has been occasionally incorporated into WWE storyl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle McCool
Michelle Leigh Calaway ( McCool; born January 25, 1980) is an American retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she is a two-time WWE Women's Champion, as well as the first WWE Divas Champion. She is a WWE Hall of Famer, class of 2025. McCool originally worked as a middle school teacher in Palatka, Florida. She joined WWE in 2004 after participating in the WWE Diva Search. From 2005 to 2007, she utilized the character of a personal trainer, before changing it to that of a teacher. At The Great American Bash in 2008, McCool became the inaugural WWE Divas Champion, holding the title for approximately five months. She then won the WWE Women's Championship at The Bash in 2009, becoming the first female wrestler to have held both titles. At Night of Champions in 2010, she unified both titles becoming the first and only WWE Unified Divas Champion. McCool held both titles on two occasions, which makes her a four-time champion overall. In Nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taryn Terrell
Taryn Nicole Dryden (née Terrell; born December 28, 1985) is an American model, actress, stuntwoman, ring announcer and retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenures in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), under her real name, and in WWE, where she performed under the ring name Tiffany. She was a former TNA Knockouts Champion while being in the TNA Knockouts Division, where her 279-day reign stood as the longest reign in the title's history until 2019. During her time in WWE, she trained at WWE's then-developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), and served as the final general manager of the now-defunct ECW brand. She worked in National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) from 2021 up until her retirement on November 10, 2022. Professional wrestling career World Wrestling Entertainment (2007-2010) Florida Championship Wrestling (2007–2010) Terrell tried out for the 2007 WWE Diva Search. She made it to the final eight, but was eliminated fourth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Kanellis
Mary Louis Kanellis-Bennett (born February 25, 1982) is an American professional wrestler, manager, promoter, singer and model. She is best known for her tenures in WWE, TNA, All Elite Wrestling, and Ring of Honor. Outside of wrestling, she is known for her 2008 ''Playboy'' magazine pictorial and 2010 appearances on the '' Celebrity Apprentice'' television series. Kanellis' career began as a contestant on the reality show '' Outback Jack'' in 2004. In the same year, she placed fifth in the Diva Search, and was later hired by WWE as a backstage interviewer. Kanellis began competing in the ring as a professional wrestler in 2005 and received the Slammy Award for Diva of the Year in 2009. She released her debut album '' Sevin Sins'' in 2010 and departed WWE later that year. After departing WWE, she worked for Ring of Honor (ROH) and Impact Wrestling - then Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) - often appearing with her husband Mike Bennett. In TNA, she is a former TNA Knoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Phoenix
Elizabeth Copeland ( Kociański; born November 24, 1980), better known as Beth Phoenix, is an American retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she is a former WWE Divas Champion and a three-time WWE Women's Championship (1956–2010), WWE Women's Champion. Kociański had a successful amateur wrestling career in high school, winning several tournaments before being trained for professional wrestling by the All-Knighters. After her debut in May 2001, she wrestled for numerous Independent circuit, independent Professional wrestling promotion, promotions. She also appeared at the inaugural Shimmer Women Athletes shows. In 2004, she began working for Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) and signed a developmental contract with WWE in October 2005. She debuted on WWE's Raw (WWE brand), Raw brand in May 2006 but suffered a Legit (professional wrestling), legitimate broken jaw the following month. As a result, she had numerous surgeries and returned to OVW fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickie James
Mickie Laree James (born August 31, 1979) Additional January 6, 2017. is an American Country music, country singer and Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE. She is also signed to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) as Creative Director, Head of Female Talent and Executive Producer. She is also known for her tenures in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). James began her wrestling career in 1999 as a Glossary of professional wrestling terms#V, valet on the independent circuit, where she was known under the name Alexis Laree. She trained in several camps to improve her wrestling abilities before working for NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA: TNA, later Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, later Impact Wrestling, now Total Nonstop Action Wrestling again) in 2002, where she gained national attention. After only a few appearances, she joined a Professional wrestling stable, stable called Raven's Nest#The Gathering, The Gathering a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melina Perez
Melina Nava Perez (born March 9, 1979) is an American professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE under the ring name Melina. Perez most recently wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). In 2000, Perez began training to be a professional wrestler at Jesse Hernandez's School of Hard Knocks, and made her debut in 2001. In late 2002, Perez auditioned for WWE's reality show Tough Enough III, but was eliminated in the first round, and was inspired by Al Snow to continue pursuing her wrestling career. In March 2004, Perez signed a contract with WWE, and was assigned to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), WWE's developmental territory, where she began managing Johnny Nitro and Joey Mercury, dubbed MNM, to three reigns as WWE Tag Team Champions, as well as Nitro to two reigns as WWE Intercontinental Champion. Perez is a three-time WWE Women's Champion, and a two-time WWE Divas Champion. After winning her second WWE Divas Championship, Perez became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low Ki
Brandon Silvestry (born September 6, 1979) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Low Ki. He is known for his time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, TNA Wrestling, Ring of Honor and Major League Wrestling as Low Ki and Senshi and with WWE as Kaval. He is a List of PWG World Champions, one-time PWG World Championship, PWG World Champion, the inaugural ROH World Championship, ROH World Champion, one-time MLW World Heavyweight Championship, MLW World Heavyweight Champion and a List of NWA World Tag Team Champions, three-time NWA World Tag Team Championship, NWA World Tag Team Champion, and has won a number of tournaments and other Championship (professional wrestling), championships on the independent circuit, and was the winner of the WWE NXT (TV series)#Season 2, second season of ''WWE NXT (TV series), NXT'' in 2010. Silvestry has also worked extensively in Japan, most notably for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWE Divas Championship
The WWE Divas Championship was a women's professional wrestling Professional wrestling championship#World championships, world championship in WWE. The championship was created by WWE in 2008, and was introduced as part of the WWE brand extension via a Glossary of professional wrestling#angle, storyline by then SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown Professional wrestling authority figures#SmackDown authorities, General Manager Vickie Guerrero as an alternative to Raw (WWE brand), Raw's WWE Women's Championship (1956–2010), WWE Women's Championship. Michelle McCool became the inaugural champion on July 20, 2008, when she defeated Natalya (wrestler), Natalya at The Great American Bash (2008), The Great American Bash. After then-WWE Divas Champion Maryse Ouellet, Maryse was drafted to Raw as part of the 2009 WWE draft, she took the title with her. McCool won a match against Melina Perez, Melina to unify the WWE Divas and Women's titles at the Night of Champions (2010), Night of Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWE NXT
''WWE NXT'', also known simply as ''NXT'', is an American professional wrestling television program. It is produced by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, featuring wrestlers from the promotion's NXT brand division. The show currently airs live on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on The CW in the United States, and in most international markets on Netflix. ''NXT'' initially debuted in 2010 on Syfy as a seasonal show which was presented as a hybrid between WWE's scripted live event shows and reality television, in which talent from WWE's then-developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) participated in a competition to become WWE's next "breakout star", with the help of mentors from WWE's Raw and SmackDown brands. Five seasons of this iteration were broadcast, with Wade Barrett, Kaval, Kaitlyn, and Johnny Curtis as winners. In June 2012, WWE ended the seasonal competition format and opted to revamp the show as a developmental wrestling p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Wrestling
Professional wrestling, often shortened to either pro wrestling or wrestling,The term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to modern scripted professional wrestling, though it is also used to refer to Real life, real-life wrestling combat. is a form of athletic theaterEero Laine (2017). "Stadium-sized theatre: WWE and the world of professional wrestling". In #refChowEtAl2017, Chow et al. (2017). ''Performance and Professional Wrestling'', p. 39: "The business of professional wrestling is the business of theatre. Even if on the surface professional wrestling seems anathema to theatrical sensibilities, it is hard to deny the formal similarities. After all, professional wrestling is scripted entertainment performed live in front of an audience by actors portraying characters." centered around mock combat with the premise that its performers are competitive wrestlers. In the United States, the term "professional wrestling" does not refer to authentic wrest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
