Pre-show notes:

- Brandon here. For the second time, we’re lucky enough to have Dan “Soupy” Campbell of The Wonder Years fill in on a Best And Worst Of WWE PPV report. Show him all the love you can, or next time I’ll get one of those guys that calls me an elitist on Twitter to sub for me. It’ll be nothing but blank pages, but hey, at least it’ll all be on the same page, am I right.

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Click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Extreme Rules 2013.

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This week, With Leather’s search for the most ridiculous, hilarious, and amazing promo photos from the world of professional wrestling ventures into the previously untapped category of “candid 8 x 10s.” These are the publicity photos that didn’t get bordered and stacked in front of wrestlers during autograph signings, but were close enough to end up signed and sold in plastic card sheets at your local hobby store. These are just as good and sometimes even worse, if that is possible.

(On a personal note, I guess we’re calling them ‘glamour shots’ now, because since we started the regular feature, a lot of other sports sites have started posting galleries and calling them that. And, uh, sending them to With Leather as a “tip.” Thanks for the tip, other guys!)

Please click through to enjoy 31 of our favorite WCW, TNA Impact Wrestling and WWE glamour shots. If you need to be coerced, there’s a photo of a guy playing a WWF logo guitar in here somewhere.

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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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This would hurt Natalya a lot more if she had a neck.

Pre-show notes:

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

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- Be sure you’re reading With Leather’s This Week In Horrible-Looking People every Monday. It’s wrestling related, and features 100% more jokes about Scott Steiner looking like Mark Wahlberg than The Best And Worst Of WWE Raw.

- If you’d like to watch wrestling that is impossible to give a Worst, please consult Veda Scott’s promo about vegan scones and yarn octopi.

Please click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for May 13, 2013. BITCH.

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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.

- GIFS courtesy of Jerusalem over at Punchsport Pagoda.

- Be sure you’re reading With Leather’s This Week In Horrible-Looking People every Monday. It’s wrestling related, and way more palatable than these dense-ass paragraphs.

- We start shooting Meet Me There this weekend (Jill Thompson is going to be at my house, holy crap), so thank you again to everyone who reads the column, contributed to our IndieGogo fundraiser and made that possible.

So hey, please click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for May 6, 2013. I wouldn’t give it a zero.

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I normally don’t just use the same photos as WWE.com, but I wanted to share this one with everyone because it is f**king hilarious. Full credit goes to WWE.com, obviously, and I love them for it.

Anyway, tonight on the WWE Raw open discussion thread:

Ever hear the one about a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest? Given the events of the past week, that’s looking more and more like the fate of John Cena as Extreme Rules approaches. The Champ fought hurt last Monday night suffered as a result, falling victim to The Shield in the main event of Raw. While the Cenation leader has been mum thus far on the status of his condition, another pair of title contenders has emerged and one former champion looks to exact vicious payback against those who have wronged him. Here are five things to watch out for this Monday on Raw.

Our five-point preview:

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