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The Divas Champion keeps rolling along since her surprise return at Extreme Rules, scoring a tag team victory on Raw as she looks ahead to WWE Over the Limit and Beth Phoenix.

Divas Championship: Layla (c) Def. Beth Phoenix in a Over The Limit Preview. Beth sold her injury. Layla hit the Lay-Out to retain the title.

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In this WWE.com exclusive video, Beth Phoenix, Rosa Mendez, Divas Champion Layla and Alicia Fox all sound off on Eve’s new role as Executive Administrator … and what they have to say just might surprise you.

As you can see, if not refresh, we’ve got a new theme over at our gallery. I honestly don’t even know since when the old gallery theme was on, but I could guess it was more than a year. When I saw Layla’s new photoshoot, I knew I had to use those pictures for a new gallery layout. So thanks to Linda, who offered to design the amazing header and to Kris for the coding, we finally have that theme. So, head over our gallery and check it out. I hope you guys like it as much as I do.

Layla & Kelly Kelly vs. Natalya and Maxine

Before going to commercial, we see Layla and Kelly Kelly walking backstage, to the ring as we roll to the commercial break.

We come back from commercial and we see Natalya and Maxine waiting on the ring for their opponents Kelly Kelly and Layla. We see Kelly come out first and obviously next the Divas Champion, Layla. We hear the bell ring and soon Layla starts against Maxine. Layla takes down Maxine, before Natalya interrupts the match and Maxine takes advantage. Soon we see Layla taking advantage once again, going for a quick pin but Maxine kicks out. After, Layla hits the Lay-Out on Maxine for the pin.

Winners: Layla and Kelly Kelly

When Beth Phoenix lost the WWE Divas Championship to Nikki Bella on the April 23 edition of Raw SuperShow (WATCH), The Glamazon severely sprained her left ankle.

But that wasn’t enough to keep Phoenix down. Less than a week later, she was set to face Nikki for the butterfly-emblazoned title at Extreme Rules … or so she thought. Before her match at Extreme Rules, Phoenix learned she was not medically cleared to compete.

With The Glamazon out of the picture, Layla stunned the WWE Universe by returning from injury to capture the WWE Divas Championship from Nikki at Extreme Rules.

Layla’s shocking return was the culmination of a long road to recovery after suffering an injury in 2011. Immediately after her victory, an exuberant and glowing champion did not mince words about her plans. “I’m going to dominate,” she said in a WWE.com Exclusive Video.

But Layla’s return is not sitting well with The Glamazon.

“I’m going to bust her other knee, and make sure that she goes away and never comes back,” Phoenix said in a recent emotional interview with WWE.com. “She has no idea what she has gotten herself into.”

With tensions continuing to mount between the two, their clash was officially announced on May 7 on WWE.com.

At WWE Over the Limit, will The Glamazon find a way to reclaim the title she held for just over six months? Or, will Layla fight to keep what she has earned just as hard as she fought to rehab from from her injury? Tune in Sunday, May 20, live on pay-per-view at 8 ET / 5 PT.

On an interview with WWE.com, Beth Phoenix talks about how unhappy she is that Layla is the new Divas Champion, and how there shouldn’t be any No. 1 contender for the tittle until she is medically cleared. You can read the interview here.

The stage, it seemed, was set. As announced just days earlier, Beth Phoenix was to collide with newly minted Divas Champion Nikki Bella at Extreme Rules, where The Glamazon was determined to reclaim the butterfly-emblazoned title despite a debilitating ankle sprain. Even though Beth chose to fight through the pain on April 29 in Chicago’s Allstate Arena, though, she would learn that evening that she was not medically cleared to compete.

“I was in a state of shock,” a frustrated Beth told WWE.com in a phone interview from her home in Buffalo, N.Y. “I’d been told I would be allowed to compete regardless of the injury, but I guess when the doctor’s report came back it was a different story. It doesn’t matter. This is a road I’ve been down before. But I would have competed hurt – I’ve done that before too.”

Beth is no stranger to injury curtailing her dominance in the ring. In May 2010, she suffered an ACL tear that would keep her out of the ring for nearly seven months. Coincidentally, it was a similar injury last May that sidelined Layla, who stepped in for the hobbled Phoenix at Extreme Rules and captured Nikki’s Divas Title. Although the WWE Universe welcomed the English-born beauty back to WWE with open arms after her yearlong absence, Phoenix reacted to Layla’s triumph with clenched fists and gritted teeth when she learned about what transpired later that night.

“Layla hasn’t earned anything,” Beth said with a hiss. “I mean, who’d she ever beat? No one should be No. 1 contender until I’m cleared. There shouldn’t have even been a Divas Championship Match at Extreme Rules.”

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