Below are some top WWE news stories of the day, involving Vickie Guerrero and Layla.
• Layla has revealed that WWE had originally planned for Vickie Guerrero to win the WWE Women’s Championship in 2010, but changed course at the last moment.
Speaking on the Heated Shenanigans podcast, Layla explained that her title victory over Beth Phoenix in a handicap match with Michelle McCool came as a surprise.
Layla shared that WWE intended for Guerrero to win the title due to Phoenix’s injury, but those plans were ultimately scrapped.
Reflecting on her unexpected triumph, she said:
“It was a dream of mine. I always dreamed about it. I thought, ‘Yeah, I could do it,’ but then, in the back of my head, I’m like, ‘Yeah, you’re not going to do it. There’s no way. You ain’t got a chance.’
The actual plan was to give the title to Vickie. They were going to give the title to Vickie because Beth was injured. So, that whole day, that’s how we were planning.”
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• Former WWE Women’s Champion Layla has shared how undervalued the women’s division was during her time with the company.
Speaking on the No Name Wrestling Podcast, she revealed that women wrestlers were often treated as an afterthought:
“At that time, the women’s division was an afterthought. I once spoke to a writer who flat-out told me, ‘We don’t care about the girls.’ We were treated as a side attraction, just something to distract the fans for a bit.”
Layla explained that the women’s division was seen as filler content, rarely receiving focus from the creative team. Matches were frequently cut to just a minute or two, with three minutes being a rarity.
Despite these challenges, Layla and Michelle McCool, together known as LayCool, worked hard to stand out, achieving notable success even without significant support from WWE.
“But for the girls, we weren’t factored for anything and it was hard for us to do it because we were always the ones who would get our time cut. It was always like ‘One minute, two minutes, three minutes.’ So, what I feel, like, LayCool was able to attain in that short period of time was pretty amazing because the company was behind us but not as much as they are behind the WWE women superstars at present.”
Reflecting on the division’s progress, Layla acknowledged the stark contrast between how women’s wrestling was treated then and how much it is prioritized in WWE today.
