User blog:CEDJunior/Where's Layla?

The $1,000,000 question that WWE Diva fans like myself have been asking is, "Where's Layla?" I was so happy that WWE decided to go through with turning Layla heel after backing away from doing so earlier in the year, but since then, she's been MIA from WWE TV lately. It would be easy for me to be upset at WWE Creative for their lack of direction regarding Layla, but I am honestly mad at myself for actually getting my hopes up.

WWE originally planned to turn Layla into a villainess right after Kaitlyn won the Divas Championship in January. For a few weeks, Layla was shown obsessively staring at Kaitlyn's title on numerous occasions, and even "inadvertedly" caused her to lose a singles match to Tamina Snuka on an edition of SmackDown. The exact plan was to have the evil Layla challenge Kaitlyn for the Divas Championship at WrestleMania 29, but they backed away from turning Layla just weeks before.

Instead, AJ Lee became Kaitlyn's rival, and she would unseat Kaitlyn at Payback on June 16 to win the title. However, Layla was shown after the match consoling Kaitlyn, and it would be the beginning of a number of occurrences where she would be in Kaitlyn's corner during her matches, even at Money In The Bank. It was at that time that news broke that WWE would be turning Layla heel against Kaitlyn, and this time, the swerve did happen. It was on the August 2 edtion of SmackDown that Layla turned into a villainess by betraying Kaitlyn and causing her to lose to AJ in a match for the Divas Championship; in fact, Layla aligned herself with AJ for a few weeks.

When the "LayJ" alliance began, I immediately thought that it would lead to a title run for Layla. I thought that Layla would be portrayed as a cruel, scheming villainess who would simply use AJ to become Divas Champion once again. Instead, Layla was relegated to being part of AJ's crusade against the Total Divas cast; forming an alliance with fellow heel Divas Alicia Fox and Aksana in numerous matches against the Total Divas, matches the heels never won. Layla has not been on WWE television in nearly two months.

I've heard a number of baseless rumors regarding Layla being MIA from TV. One said she had backstage heat, while another said that she is actually upset that Brandi Rhodes, the wife of Layla's former boyfriend, Cody Rhodes, is back in WWE. I don't believe either of those rumors. I just hope that I see Layla on TV again, and I still think she deserves one more Divas Championship run as a heel. It's the least they can do.