5 WWE women's teams and stables you may have forgotten

#3 LayCool

LayCool thrived as mean girls and as champions.

The late 2000s into the early 2010s aren’t exactly remembered fondly as a period for WWE women’s wrestling. LayCool—the tandem of Michelle McCool and Layla El—is worthy of some recognition, though. As snobby mean girls, they reigned over the women’s division, more than once claiming to share the Divas Championship, and generally terrorizing their face counterparts. Their antics most infamously included body shaming Mickie James in a series of parodies.

At their core, McCool and El were deceptively decent workers, and their heel shtick and pairing gave them more distinctive identity than other female performers of their era. For nearly two years, they thrived, first as a SmackDown exclusive act, and then across both brands. Over time, they’d welcome in Vickie Guerrero as their sometimes manager, and Kaval as their (strangely cast) NXT protégé.

While McCool and El would end up feuding against one another on their way out of the company, they were most certainly at their best together.