I spent every day of my 30′s puttin’ in hard work..
So today, I can turn 40 and say with a big ass smile..
I’m just gettin’ started!
As of this posting, that status has about 90,000 “likes”. Today is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s birthday, and if you haven’t been paying attention … he’s pretty popular.
To help celebrate Rocky’s milestone, we’ve compiled a loosely ordered list of moments, matches and Kung Pao Bitch jokes from his career. Whether you like him or you don’t, it’s hard to deny that he’s one of the most influential and entertaining performers in the history of pro wrestling … and one of two pro wrestlers cool enough to be a G.I. Joe. Three if you count The Fridge.
- Drop a comment on the report! We want to hear what you have to say and appreciate having you around. Also, seriously, click that like button. If you don’t I’m gonna stretch the next 5-page report into a Bleacher Report thing that reloads the entire page whenever you move.
- Continued thanks to Casey/THESTINGER for helping me out with gifs and pictures. Be sure to visit his gifs Tumblr for the stuff I didn’t use.
- For another perspective on Raw, make sure you check out John Canton’s Raw Deal at the new TJRWrestling. He’s a nice guy with a great crew and deserves your support.
- For a Best And Worst Of Raw-approved Tumblr account, visit Feminist Pro Wrestling. It’s totally right, and a more straightforward approach to addressing the serious, f**ked-up problems of pro wrestling without my weird anime tangents. Support reasonable people who like pro graps!
Please to enjoy the Best and Worst Of WWE Raw 4/30, with special guest star … oh, let’s say “Moe”.
- Drop a comment on the report and let me know what you thought of the show! Or what you thought about what I thought about the show, or whatever. We appreciate having you around, and your patronage is appreciated in non-badge situations. Also, seriously, click that like button. If you don’t I’m gonna stretch the next 5-page report into a 50 page slideshow.
- Continued thanks to Casey/THESTINGER for helping me out with gifs and pictures. Be sure to visit his gifs Tumblr for the stuff I didn’t use. He is the best.
Please to enjoy the Best and Worst Of WWE Extreme Rules. Viewer EXTREMENESS~ is advised.
WWE Extreme Rules (where all the rules are EXTREME~!) goes down this Sunday night at 8 PM EST, and With Leather is here to provide you a comfortable place to discuss the show with likeminded individuals who are gonna go YEAHH KILL HIMMM when a guy’s about to be thrown through a press table.
The complete card for Extreme Rules, including the championship match pre-show on WWE’s YouTube channel, is below.
The top 10 comments in tonight’s open discussion thread will be featured in Monday’s Best And Worst Of WWE Extreme Rules report. To nominate a comment for top 10 status, reply to it with a +1. Try not to be extreme and plus anything else.
Poll time:
To thank you for hanging out with us on Sunday night, we’re giving you the greatest possible commenting badge: the Daniel Bryan YES! badge.
During Extreme Rules, you can unlock this vegan bad boy by tweeting about the open discussion thread, sharing it on Facebook and clicking the “like” button just above the banner image. If you miss every other badge we offer, don’t miss the one that gives your profile a screaming affirmation. YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
- Please excuse my lateness this week. I spent Monday night performing at The ND in Austin, breaking in our brand new Monday Night Watch Party, informally known as the Best and Worst of Raw Live. Highlights included me doing the ACH ring entrance and the wonderful comedians we had helping us out with improv commercials. Lowlights included watching this wrestling show. Our next show is on May 21, so come check it out. It’s free, and we’re gonna have a better idea of what works and an hour less to fill.
- If you haven’t listened to it yet, be sure to check out episode 2 of my pro wrestling podcast With Spandex. I talk to Deadspin and Grantland’s David “The Masked Man” Shoemaker about everything from WrestleMania to “Don’t Step To Ron”. It’s a good time. With Spandex will be taking a one week hiatus this week so I can cover the Moontower Comedy and Oddity festival for UPROXX, but it’ll be right back.
- Don’t be afraid to leave a comment on this report. We’ve build a great community of intelligent, funny wrestling fans and you should be a part of it, because seriously, you aren’t gonna find it anywhere else. Not even on that Fark page where they linked us but nobody clicked it and just talked about Raw on the Fark page.
- No, really, that’s the only thing they’ve announced. Brock Lesnar and John Cena will be having a contract signing for a match they’ve already agreed to with stipulations that’ve already been announced. This show is gonna be three hours long.
- Alberto Del Rio and Ricardo Rodriguez won’t be in attendance, as they’ve been traded to Smackdown. You know, unless they appear on Raw as members of Smackdown, which is a thing that always happens.
- Heels making jokes about Detroit, like Michigan doesn’t feel badly enough already.
Poll time:
A few things to remember:
- The top 10 comments of the night will be featured in tomorrow’s Best And Worst Of WWE Raw report. To nominate a comment for the top 10, respond to it with a +1. You can respond to it with a +anything, really (or even a well placed but less committal “haha”) but the formal +1 makes it easier to find later.
- If you’re in the Austin area tonight and don’t feel like +1′ing anybody, come out to The ND and watch me try to handle a three-hour Raw for my first ever live Best and Worst-style comedy venture. If you show up to this, you are automatically my friend for life, pending you not heckling me the entire time.
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