WWE.com: Describe the feeling of walking out in front of a sold-out Chicago crowd knowing you were going to be in a match that was guaranteed to be historic.

Michelle McCool: It was awesome. To think that we’re in the history books, that just boggles my mind. It hasn’t hit me yet. It could be today, tomorrow or years from now when I look back and say it was really cool. Lay-Cool, we had our backs against the wall. We had all the Divas against us. We knew we couldn’t beat them all together – but we knew we could outsmart them. And, that’s exactly what we did.

WWE.com: What does it mean for there to be one title in the Divas Division?

Michelle: I think it opens up a lot more opportunities. It’s sad that it won’t be the Women’s Championship we are holding, because there’s so much prestige with it. But who knows, Trish Stratus retired with it a few years ago – maybe it’ll come back again. It’s an absolute honor to be carrying the championship on my shoulder. It’s a proud moment.

WWE.com: You seem to be the history-making Diva, winning the first-ever Divas Championship in ’08, first Diva to have held the Divas and Women’s Titles and now this. Where do you see your place in history with the likes of Trish Stratus, Wendi Richter, Fabulous Moolah or Sherri?

Michelle: Believe it or not I’m really a humble person. To hear my name spoken in the same sentence as those women is a true honor to me. Where do I stand in history? That’s kind of hard to tell – that’s really up to the WWE Universe.

WWE.com: Technically, you got the pin at Night of Champions. Critics might say that Layla is “piggybacking” off your success.

Michelle: You see, people are just jealous of us. We had in our contract that either one of us could defend the title. They said the same thing when Layla “technically” got the pin on Beth Phoenix. We have this bond that is unbreakable. People are just jealous they don’t have someone in their lives like Layla or myself. We’re not going anywhere, and like it or not, you’re going to have to deal with us.

Returning from injury to capture the Divas Championship at SummerSlam, Melina has every reason to be in a celebratory mood these days. However, SmackDown’s resident “mean girls,” Women’s Champion Layla and McCool, have bullied the Latina lovely over the past several weeks with a series of verbal and physical assaults. When Team Lay-Cool revealed they had a surprise in store for Melina on Raw’s 900th episode celebration, the Divas Champ was justifiably skeptical.

Confronting Melina with a dose of their infamously candid “real talk,” Lay-Cool accused the Diva of being “forgettable,” proposing a Championship Unification Match at Night of Champions to determine the most deserving titleholder in the Divas division. Either Michelle or Layla would battle Melina, and the winner would leave Night of Champions with both the Women’s and the Divas Championships, unifying the titles for the first time in history.

Melina accepted the challenge, but given Lay-Cool’s inclination to bend the rules, the Divas Champion demanded that every WWE Diva on the roster be at ringside as lumberjills to ensure that this is indeed a fair fight – a near-foreign concept to the cunning “Co-Women’s Champs.”

But since the challenge, things may not have been so flawless in the Lay-Cool camp. Just two days before Night of Champions, the duo could not decide who would face Melina. The solution? Have newest SmackDown Superstar and WWE NXT season two winner Kaval draw names from a hat. After Michelle’s name was drawn, Layla realized every piece of paper in the hat had Michelle’s name on it. Furious, Layla vowed not to be there for Michelle at Night of Champions.

Can Melina unify the Divas and Women’s Titles? Or will Michelle bring all the glory home to Friday nights? Find out by tuning in to Night of Champions, Sept. 19, only on pay-per-view.

In what will no doubt be one of the most unique (or should we say “flawless?”) bouts at Night of Champions, Divas Champion Melina will face one half of the self-proclaimed “Co-Women’s Champions,” Team Lay-Cool, in a match that will unify the Women’s and Divas titles – a feat of such magnitude that every WWE Diva will be at ringside to witness it.

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