During a recent appearance on the “They Made Their Way To The Ring” podcast, former WWE Superstar Layla commented on LayCool’s mean girl-style nicknames for their rivals which included the “Piggy James” reference directed toward Mickie James.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Mickie James’ nickname: “The first name, which was Mickie James, is very controversial, so I’m not even going to say it. Mickie James …. Vince actually came up with that. We had nothing to do with that. We got a lot of heat for it. That wasn’t our creation at all.”
On calling Kelly Kelly ‘Smelly Kelly’ and more: “I think that was Michelle. I want to say Michelle came up with that one. Maria, the ‘Unfed Redhead,’ I can’t recall. I didn’t even know we called her that. ‘Manazon’ (for Beth Phoenix), I’m not too sure. They fit in that era and time. They fit, they were offensive, they did their job. You guys weren’t supposed to like us. You’re supposed to hate us, but find us funny, but also take us seriously and we’re obnoxious.”
Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns were featured in a segment that was filmed at Georgia Tech’s Bobby Dodd Stadium on a recent episode of WWE SmackDown, and the reigning Undisputed WWE Universal Champion recently appeared on “The Pat McAfee Show” to discuss the filming of the vignette. He said,
“You’re talking about Roman Reigns, you’re talking about myself, walking into Bobby Dodd [Stadium], on that field, just being in on that campus, I grew up in Georgia, I know every inch of that state, but that’s one place I don’t know very well because that is where smart people went to school. We didn’t shake [hands], we didn’t shake. We agreed, being a wrestling fan, you know there’s always this ‘will they coexist thing?’ when you get the odd couple tag teams, who’s gonna turn on who? Whatever it may be. This was a good way of setting up, that’s not what this match is about. We have agreed to coexist.”
He continued, “We did not need to shake, and I wish people could have been on the ground there to see how real it really is with myself and my tag team partner at Bad Blood, we stood on opposite sides of the field for all of the pre-shoot as they were getting the lights and everything ready. No discussion whatsoever, no awareness of what the other might say to the other, and we just walked across the field, met at the 50, ran it straight through, and hat’s off to Mr. Heyman, JB [Jeremy Borash], and Rob Fee because they put this thing together in such a cinematic way. It should have gotten credits. It really came out unique.”
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