WWE Elimination Chamber has come and gone. I rode from Austin, TX, to New Orleans on Sunday for the show, stayed Monday for the epic WrestleMania XXX announcement press conference, got my picture taken with Mark Henry and … well, I’m still here. I don’t get back into Austin until Wednesday night.

That said, I don’t want to leave you without a Best and Worst of Elimination Chamber report, so I’ve organized something special. BEHOLD, for the first time in Best and Worst history, a report comes to you in the form of a podcast!

The lovely folks at Trew To The Game were nice enough to have me on, and if you wanted to know what I thought of the show, holy shit this is everything I thought about the show. We cover the matches, the booking, the botched bucket spots, the crazy people in the audience around us and more. I’m really proud of it, and I hope you’ll take some time to download it, subscribe, listen, whatever.

Please click on this moving image of Mark Henry splitting Randy Orton’s wig to listen.

(Or, I don’t know, click here if you don’t trust a GIFlink)

WWE Elimination Chamber 2013 happens live on pay-per-view this Sunday, February 17, and as always With Leather is here to live-blog and openly comment on it as it happens. This year’s show features only one Chamber match and is main-evented by the WWE Championship rematch between Actual Champion CM Punk and “guy who showed up and was so famous he won the belt by osmosis” The Rock.

Complete card is below.

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Pre-show notes:

- Comments, shares, likes, and especially Reddit submissions/up votes are appreciated. The only way this column works is by you helping me out and showing it to people. If you don’t, I go back to writing about soccer. DON’T MAKE ME DO THAT, YOU GUYS.

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

- GIFS via Jerusalem at the Punchsport Pagoda.

- Big thank you once again to Chris Trew for filling in on last week’s report. Go read that. I don’t care if you’ve already read it, go read it again!

- If you missed out on National Pro Wrestling Day, don’t worry, we had all the fun in the world without you. If you’d still like to hang out with me at a wrestling show sometime, your next chance is at Elimination Chamber in New Orleans on Sunday. I’ll be there live, somewhere up in the nosebleeds, and would appreciate your hugs when Rock wins and I have to Charlie Brown walk out of the New Orleans Arena.

For now, please click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for February 11, 2013.

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Pre-show notes:

- Be sure you’ve read The Best And Worst Of Royal Rumble 2013 before you read the Raw report.

- Comments, shares, likes, and especially Reddit submissions/up votes are appreciated. Those SquaredCircle Reddit types are nice people, and they need YOU, the valiant Reddit/With Leather overlapped demographic, to submit and support the column.

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

- Don’t forget, I’m going to be live at National Pro Wrestling Day this Saturday, so if you’ve ever heard of wrestling and Pennsylvania, get there and say hi.

Sorry, I couldn’t find a HQ episode of Nitro to review. Click through for the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for January 28, 2013.

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I stopped watching the show here. What a great night for everyone!

Pre-show notes:

- Comments, shares, likes, and especially Reddit submissions/up votes are appreciated. Pay-per-view reports take just as much time as Raw reports and get like, half the feedback, so help a brother out.

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

- Pics and GIFs courtesy of the wonderful Casey, aka THESTINGER. Come to National Pro Wrestling Day with us and give him a high-five for his time.

- I’m trying out the commenting badges on this report, so SHARE LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SHARED BEFORE, FRIENDS.

And now, please enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Royal Rumble 2013, a thing that happened.

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Let's hope this works out the same way it did for Eddard Stark.

WWE Royal Rumble 2013 goes down this Sunday, January 27, starting with a YouTube pre-show at 7:30 PM EST. As always, the community of way-too-funny With Leather commenters will be around to indirectly live-blog the show and set you up with all the jokes you’ll need for Monday morning.

Here’s your full card, as we know it:

- Pre-show United States Championship Match: Antonio Cesaro (c) vs. The Miz

- Tag Team Championship Match: Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane) (c) vs. Team Rhodes Scholars (Damien Sandow and Cody Rhodes)

- Last Man Standing Match for the World Heavyweight Championship Match: Alberto Del Rio (c) vs. The Big Show

- WWE Championship Match: CM Punk (c) vs. The Rock. If The Shield gets involved, CM Punk will be stripped of the WWE Championship.

- Royal Rumble Match

The 10 best comments from the open discussion thread will be featured in Monday’s Best And Worst Of WWE Royal Rumble 2013 report, so if you’d like to nominate a comment for top 10 status, please reply to it with a +1.

So let’s hear your predictions. Which titles are changing hands? Who wins the Royal Rumble? Who shows up in the Rumble as a surprise entrant? Will Brock Lesnar magically appear and save us from a Rock title reign?