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- Before you read this week’s column, be sure you’ve read The Best And Worst Of WWE Payback by guest writer Nick Bonds. Big thanks to him for filling in on that. Check it out and tell him nice things.

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Pre-show notes:

- Brandon here. Our special guest writer for the Best and Worst of WWE Payback No Year Necessary is Mr. Nick Bond. If you don’t know who he is:

Nick Bond is the managing editor at The Classical, he’s written for Buzzfeed, and he also runs a wrestling blog called Juice Make Sugar with his best friend Dave. He tweets using his self-appointed, third-person nickname (@TheN1ckster) from high school, because he lacks the ability to process shame. He, like Patty Smyth (and Sergeant Hatred) before him, is a warrior and will die at the hand of his archenemy.

Give him a warm welcome or I will come to your house and fight you in real life.

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And that’s it! Please click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Payback. Take it away, Nick.

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Here are your quick and dirty WWE Payback results for Sunday night’s pay-per-view.

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The inaugural WWE Payback pay-per-view airs live tonight at 8PM EST, beginning with an online pre-show event beginning at 7:30. Payback is headlined by a “three stages of hell” match between WWE Champion John Cena and challenger Ryback, featuring a lumberjack, tables and ambulance match in a 2-out-3 falls setting. The hilarious With Leather readers will be discussion the thread all night long, so be sure to stop by and hang out and unlock your Paul Heyman Guy badge.

The full card is below.

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WWE loves two things the most:

1. Apps
2. Talking about apps

Back in May, they debuted Rockpocalypse, an action beat-em-up app about Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson battling a disease epidemic by beating the crap out of everyone he sees on a movie set. No, seriously. The next most important person on the WWE Superstar hierarchy is Fruity Pebbles coverboy and direct-to-DVD Flintstones movie star John Cena.

You’d think they’d just redo Rockpocalypse with a white guy instead of a beige guy and replace “movie set” with “backstage at a WWE event,” but nope, John Cena’s getting a racing game. I don’t know, because racing games are easy to make? The best part is that despite announcing “John Cena racing game app,” WWE has no idea what to actually DO with it, and is polling the WWE Universe for advice. Here are your options:

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- Also, be sure you’re reading my Best and Worst of NXT column. It needs your support, and will come in handy when guys get called up and you wanna know who’s good and why.

Please click through to enjoy six slices of bacon and the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for June 10, 2013.

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