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- Be sure you’re reading With Leather’s This Week In Horrible-Looking People every Monday. This week I talked about embarrassing candid 8x10s, and you get to see Andre the Giant dressed like Zach Braff. Good times.

- In horrible wrestling news, WWE decided to let our good friend Derrick Bateman go. These are the guys who decided to write THIS episode of Raw, in case you need a reference for how good their decision-making skills are. Anyway, if you’re a wrestling promoter type who reads this column and wants to book an awesome wrestler who is hilarious and was also on Internet TV for a long time, contact him for bookings here.

- This week’s report is up a little early, because I’ll be spending the majority of the day in a church with video cameras and Goldust. If you aren’t following Meet Me There on Facebook, do that. It’s going to be special.

Please click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for May 20, 2013. Things get a little sick at the end.

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WWE Extreme Rules 2013 airs live on pay-per-view Sunday night, May 19. The event is headlined by a steel cage match between Triple H and Brock Lesnar, as well as several less-important championship matches and things not featuring Triple H.

As always, With Leather is here to provide the best in open discussion thread technology, connecting the funniest pro wrestling fans on the Internet. The full Extreme Rules card is below, as well as a video player to watch the Yahoo exclusive ER pre-show and your chance to unlock the greatest WWE-themed commenting badge we’ve ever offered, the Believe In The Shield badge.

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Pre-show notes:

- Comments, shares, likes, and anything else that gets people to come here are appreciated, as always. If you can start one of those Reddit threads where people are all, “oh yeah, I like this column,” I will mail you candy.

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- If you’d like more wrestling jokes, be sure to check out our now ongoing WWE promo photos galleries.

- The biggest-ever thank you goes out to everyone who helped make our Meet Me There fundraiser a success. We raised over $6,000 (!!), which will go very far toward making it the best movie we can make it. Thank you, and you are my friend from now until whenever you wanna stop. We’re shooting in May, so I’ll be socially AWOL for most of it, but it shouldn’t mess with the column at all. Go like the movie on Facebook and keep up with us!

And now, with 100% fewer helicopter entrances, it’s the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for April 29, 2013.

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As regular readers of the Best and Worst of WWE Raw column may know, when it comes to the world of sports-entertainment (read: “sports that aren’t actually sports”), there are few people more beloved at With Leather than WWE Superstar Cody Rhodes. The guy has it all. As the son of The American Dream Dusty Rhodes and brother of Dustin “Goldust” Rhodes he’s got a legit pro wrestling pedigree, he’s a former Intercontinental and Tag Team champion, he’s in a tag team with his BEST FRIEND~, he’s engaged to one of the most ridiculously beautiful women in the world and can grow … well, most of a mustache.

If you need further proof of Cody’s greatness, he answered “Morgan Freeman” when asked the Fight Club classic, “If you could fight any celebrity, who would you fight?” His explanation of why is even better than the image of Lucius Fox eating a Cross Rhodes:

When asked which celebrity he’d like to wrestle, Cody cheekily answered: “Morgan Feeman, because I feel like I could win because he’s old; although I’m sure he’s tough. But then we could sell it and he could narrate the match, like he narrates everything. He could explain everything because he’s such a great storyteller he could tell the story of me beating him. That would be wonderful.” (via Sowetan Live)

Cody Rhodes wants to beat up Morgan Freeman so he can win an easy fight and have it narrated. The only way that could be better is if Damien Sandow had overheard the interview, wondered aloud who Morgan Freeman was, then launched into a thing about how he wanted to Sir Walter Raleigh.

Readers, here’s your question for the day: If you could wrestle (or, for clarity’s sake, fight) a celebrity, who’d you choose? Let us know in the comments section below. I’m calling Zach Braff.

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Pre-show notes:

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- GIFS courtesy of Jerusalem over at Punchsport Pagoda.

- This is the last week for our Meet Me There fundraiser, and we’ve only got a few days left. If we can push it over the 5K mark, I’ll consider it a win and a blessing. Huge, huge thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, even if you did so passive-aggressively! Head over to IndieGogo and buy a shirt or a poster or a DVD or something, friend!

- For additional wrestling jokes, be sure to check out 51 Random, Awesome WWE Promo Photos.

And now, complete with helicopter entrance, here’s the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for April 22, 2013.

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Pre-show notes:

- Spoiler alert: This show was bad. Like, notably awful. If you are not a fan of people pointing out that the wrestling is bad I’d recommend going back and reading last week’s report instead. Last week: when things were fun, and people had futures.

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

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

- GIFS courtesy of Jerusalem over at Punchsport Pagoda.

- We’ve got 11 days left in our fundraiser for Meet Me There, the horror movie I’m making with Dustin Rhodes, Jill Thompson and a bunch of crazy talented people. If you’re the good-hearted type, you should consider donating to the cause. You can get stuff!

Please click through to enjoy the Worst and One Best When Mark Henry Ran In All Suddenly Of Raw for April 15, 2013.

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