Layla El

Layla El
Layla as WWE Women's Champion , 2010.
Data
Ring name	Layla
height	156 cm
Fighting weight	52 kg
birth	June 25, 1977 London , England
Announced from	Miami , Florida
Trained by	Jesse Hernandez Dave Finlay PWA training stick FCW training stick
debut	July 10, 2006
retirement	July 29, 2015

Layla El (born June 25, 1977 in London ) is a British model , dancer and wrestler of Moroccan origin. She was under contract with the WWE until July 29, 2015 , where she appeared regularly in their wrestling shows under her first name Layla .

Wrestling career

World Wrestling Entertainment (2006-2015)

El came to wrestling by participating in the 250,000 US dollars doped WWE Diva Search Competition was allowed to participate in the year of 2006. She was then allowed to contest the Diva Search Talent Show on August 16, 2006 on SmackDown! win against JT Tinney and Jen England in the final.

El first appeared in a backstage recording with several other divas at SummerSlam 2006 . Your first appearance on SmackDown! she had in an interview with The Miz . She got into the ring for the first time at the Diva Trick or Treat Battle Royal Match on October 24, 2006, where she lost to The Miz according to the storyline .

On January 23, 2007, El was transferred to the ECW brand, where she teamed up with Brooke and Kelly Kelly to form the trio Extreme Exposé , with whom she also prepared weekly dance interludes on the show. Extreme Exposé later broke up when Adams left.

Layla was transferred to the RAW brand in 2008 , making her the first WWE Diva with membership in all three brands. On July 7, 2008, El lost her debut in a tag team match with Jillian Hall against Mickie James and Kelly Kelly. Afterwards she was mainly seen at the side of William Regal .

On April 15, 2009, El moved to SmackDown . From November 2009 she formed a tag team named Lay-Cool with Michelle McCool and feuded against Mickie James and, after her release, against Beth Phoenix . On May 14, 2010, Lay-Cool Beth Phoenix faced a 2-on-1 handicap match for the WWE Women's Championship , in which El Beth was able to pin and thus win her first title in the WWE. At Night of Champions , McCool's title was merged with the Divas Championship and deactivated. After Lay-Cool ended in April 2011, El had been inactive since May 2011 due to a knee injury.

On April 29, 2012, El returned to Extreme Rules , defeating Nikki Bella and winning the WWE Divas Championship . She lost the title at Night of Champions on September 16, 2012 to Eve . Until 2014 El was on a tag team with Summer Rae, the two called each other "SLayers". From November 2014 to April 2015, El took a break for private reasons. On July 29, 2015, Layla announced her retirement from WWE .

Outside of wrestling

Before joining WWE in 2006, El was a dancer for Carnival Cruise Lines , the Miami Heat franchise of the NBA and also danced for Kanye West at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards . As a dancer, she appeared in the short film Misfit ( 1996) seen with Kylie Minogue .

El has been photographed for several magazines, including King Magazine , Smooth Magazine, and the cover of the first issue of Liquid magazine . She also posed for FHM with the other members of the Extreme Exposé . El appeared in the February 2009 issue of Flex magazine with Beth Phoenix and Candice Michelle .

In April 2007 El was seen in the music video for the single Throw It on Me by Timbaland featuring The Hives, along with her colleagues Ashley Massaro , Brooke Adams , Kelly Kelly , Torrie Wilson and Maryse Ouellet .

From November 5-9, 2007, El starred in 5 episodes of Family Feud with fellow WWE members. She also appeared as a trainer on April 13, 2008 in an episode of Celebrity Fit Club Boot Camp .

El also acted as a presenter for the US television series Artifax (1992) and in the short film Early Bird (1983).

Wrestling successes

WWE

• WWE Women's Championship (2 ×)
• WWE Divas Championship (1 ×)
• Diva Search (2006)

Web links

Commons : Layla El  - Collection of Images

• Layla's profile on wwe.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile details at Cagematch.de , accessed on November 6, 2009.
2. ↑ Tweet from Layla El on her 35th birthday , accessed on September 8, 2012
3. ↑ Layla El - Profile on Online World of Wrestling , accessed November 6, 2009.
4. ↑ Biography at World Wrestling Entertainment (English)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 6, 2009.  
5. ↑ prowrestling.com - Interview with Layla El , accessed on 6 November of 2009.
6. ↑ WWE.com - Diva Report , accessed on 6 November of 2009.
7. ↑ Etreme Expose´- Layla ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 6, 2009. 
8. ↑ Interview with The Miz , accessed November 6, 2009.
9. ^ WWE Archive Report 2006 , accessed November 6, 2009.
10. ↑ WWE.com Transfer El to ECW , accessed November 6, 2009.
11. ↑ Online World of Wrestling.com Extreme Exposé , accessed on 6 November of 2009.
12. ^ WWE.com relocation RAW , accessed November 6, 2009.
13. ↑ Relocation Smackdown!
14. ↑ [1]
15. ↑ Miami Herald, June 15, 2006 ( June 15, 2006 memento on the Internet Archive ), accessed November 6, 2009.
16. ↑ NBA.com - Miami Heat - Layla El ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 6, 2009. 
17. ^ World Wrestling Entertainment - Diva Profile - Layla El ( Memento June 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 6, 2009.
18. ↑ King-Magazine Layla El , accessed November 6, 2009.
19. ^ WWE.com Smooth Magazine Layla El , accessed November 6, 2009.
20. ^ WWE.com Liquid-Magazine Layla El , accessed November 6, 2009.
21. ↑ WWE.com FHM-Magazine Etreme Exposé , accessed November 6, 2009.
22. ↑ The Wrestling Post ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 6, 2009. 
23. ↑ WWE.com Flex Magazine , accessed November 6, 2009.
24. ↑ WWE.com - Appearance as a video model: Layla El ( Memento from June 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 6, 2009.
25. ↑ WWE.com Episodes Family Feud , accessed November 6, 2009.