Pre-show notes:

- Don’t be afraid to contribute to the discussion in our comments section, click the “like” button and share the column on your social media things. Last week’s column did really well, so if you’d like these columns to continue, let’s keep that going. If they do well enough, I’ll eventually be forced to write about everything on television. BEST AND WORST OF RING OF HONOR, HERE I COME!

- If you’re wondering where you can watch NXT, it’s currently on Hulu Plus every Thursday. If you’re like, “weh, I don’t want to have to pay for Hulu Plus to watch wrestling,” it’s the best wrestling show and Hulu Plus is like 8 dollars. Just do it, it’s fine. You aren’t gonna miss 8 dollars. You can watch this week’s episode (as long as they keep it up) here.

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Please click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE NXT for June 5, 2013.

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Best in the world.

Pre-show notes:

- Comments, shares, likes, and anything else that gets people to come here are appreciated, as always.

- Follow us on Twitter @withleather, follow me personally @MrBrandonStroud and like us on Facebook.

- Be sure you’re reading With Leather’s This Week In Horrible-Looking People every Monday. This week we did part 2 of TNA Impact Wrestling, and there is more than one Traci Brooks photo. Go check that out.

- I’m looking for somebody to fill in on the Best and Worst of WWE Payback report (the show’s on June 16). If you’re an Internet type of note and want to give a wrestling report on With Leather a try, shoot me an e-mail at mrbrandonstroud@gmail.com and I’ll consider you. It does require you to actually follow through with a long-ass verbose report, so keep that in mind when applying.

This week’s a special one, so I’ll let you get to it. Please click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for June 6, 2013.

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Pre-show notes:

- If you’d like to see these WWE NXT reports continue (as they bring in like, 5% the traffic of a Raw report), please contribute to the discussion in our comments section, click the “like” button and share the column on your social media things. If you’re on a wrestling forum or site somewhere, share it. Your help will be greatly appreciated.

- If you’re wondering where you can watch NXT, it’s currently on Hulu Plus every Thursday. If you’re like, “weh, I don’t want to have to pay for Hulu Plus to watch wrestling,” it’s the best wrestling show and Hulu Plus is like 8 dollars. Just do it, it’s fine. You aren’t gonna miss 8 dollars. You can watch this week’s episode (as long as they keep it up) here.

- Follow us on Twitter @withleather, follow me personally @MrBrandonStroud and like us on Facebook.

Please click through to enjoy Emma. Also, the Best and Worst of WWE NXT for May 29, 2013.

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Pre-show notes:

- Comments, shares, likes, and anything else that gets people to come here are appreciated, as always. Want to convince UPROXX to give us a dedicated wrestling blog? SHARE THE MESS OUT OF THIS.

- Follow us on Twitter @withleather, follow me personally @MrBrandonStroud and like us on Facebook.

- Be sure you’re reading With Leather’s This Week In Horrible-Looking People every Monday. This week we covered TNA, if you ever wanted a place to read me making TNA jokes. Spoiler: they are super easy.

- Want to listen to me and some pals discuss that time Goldust flew into Austin and filmed some scenes for a movie I wrote? Go listen to episode one of the Greenless Studios podcast about Meet Me There, won’t you?

Hey, don’t cry! Click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for Memorial Day, May 27, 2013.

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Pre-show notes:

- So I’ve finally decided to dedicate a weekly report to the best show WWE produces, NXT. If you’d like to see these continue, please contribute to the discussion in our comments section, click the “like” button and share the column on your social media things. If you’re on a wrestling forum or site somewhere, share it. I’ll keep doing them until I run out of complimentary things to say about Emma (which would be never).

- If you’re wondering where you can watch NXT, it’s currently on Hulu Plus every Thursday. If you’re like, “weh, I don’t want to have to pay for Hulu Plus to watch wrestling,” it’s the best wrestling show and Hulu Plus is like 8 dollars. Just do it, it’s fine. You aren’t gonna miss 8 dollars. You can watch this week’s episode (as long as they keep it up) here.

- Follow us on Twitter @withleather, follow me personally @MrBrandonStroud and like us on Facebook.

- Banner image via the wonderful @I_Am_ALo. GIF courtesy of Wrestle Enigma.

So! Please click through to enjoy the debut edition of The Best And Worst Of WWE NXT, May 22, 2013 edition.

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One of the best part of our popular The Best And Worst Of WWE Raw column is the amazing collection of animated GIFs from Casey at Hammerlock Dialectic. They’re so good, in fact, that I’m sad when people who don’t read the column (or like pro wrestling) miss out on them. Trust me, there is some colossally ridiculous looking stuff happening in the world of pro wrestling and you don’t need the ability to pretend it’s real to appreciate it.

Combine that truth with what Jon Bois is doing to improve GIF art awareness at SB Nation and a “best wrestling gifs of the month” feature sounded like a no-brainer. So here are my 21 favorite animated GIFs from the world of pro wrestling for June, keeping in mind that:

1. The July 4 weekend messed up everybody’s schedule, so go along with me and pretend June just ended.
2. So far we only do a WWE column on the site, so June’s GIFs will be WWE heavy. With GIFs Of The Month becoming a regular feature, we’ll move forward with more of an emphasis on giffing everything that happens in the world of wrestling, and oh my god you are not ready for Japan.
3. A lot of GIFs appeared in the Raw column, but a lot of them are being seen for the first time.
4. We’ll try to get a more uniform GIF size in the future.

Anyway, enough qualifiers. Check out the 20 best pro wrestling GIFs for June, with little-to-no context provided.

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