10 Ideas WWE Blatantly Stole From THEMSELVES

10. Bayley & Sasha Banks = LayCool

Sasha Banks and Bayley went on a tear throughout the closed-set pandemic days of 2020. The real-life pals were visibly having fun on TV, and both enjoyed the chance to cut lengthy promos without fans chiming in with archaic, unwanted chants of "WHAT?!" every two seconds.

Their dominant, gold-winning spree has been likened to the 'Two-Man Power Trip' work of Steve Austin and Triple H in 2001. That's fair, but fans had witnessed a tyrannical, twin-pronged female tag-team before: LayCool. Oh yes, Sasha and Bayley were a modern update on Michelle McCool and Layla.

They were just better in-ring workers.

Both generally carried themselves as bullying sorts who'd rub their own success in the faces of fans and rivals alike. Who does that sound like? It's exactly what McCool and Layla did a decade or so before Bayley and Banks were working their mid-ThunderDome era magic in front of LED screens and fans locked down back home.