Pre-show notes:

- Please make sure to leave a comment on the report. Facebook likes and Twitter shares are huge. These take forever to write, so if you want me to keep them up instead of just posting tweets about Skip Bayless from Jose Canseco or whatever like a normal popular sports blog should, do your part.

- Thanks to Casey of the WWE Magazine awareness-winning Hammerlock Dialectic for pics and gifs.

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

- If you’re one of those people who got to the report early and don’t see all the pages, please consider spending some time listening to today’s epic edition of the With Spandex pro wrestling podcast. It’s about the greatest fan fiction of all time, Adventures In Bitchsitting, and deals with Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle as single fathers. It’s amazing, and you should hear it (plus it’ll by me a little time).

Enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for June 11, 2012. Three hours of it. Jesus.

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Vince McMahon sings Stand Back! (Original video) by natyhbk1

Or, “I love it when you show up to save our ratings, pop.”

According to GrapzNewz.com, there are two different scripts floating around for tonight’s Raw — one that is “McMahon Heavy” and one that isn’t, and which one they use will depend on what happens with poor Alberto Del Rio and his concussion. Apparently WWE went on tour this weekend and hurt everybody, so ADR is down, R-Truth has a broken foot, Sheamus ruptured an ovary and Sin Cara Rojo is stricken with gout. So tonight on a very special three-hour edition of Raw SuperShow, Vince McMahon and John Laurinaitis spend 180 minutes evaluating job performances and Cena spends 8 minutes of overrun making poopy face while he holds David Otunga in the STF. If it turns out better than what I’ve described, I’m calling it a win.

John Cena and Big Show haven’t been in the same arena since Show decked Cena with a WMD three weeks ago. With their Steel Cage Match looming large at No Way Out, can these rivals restrain themselves when they’re finally within striking distance of each other? More importantly, do they even want to restrain themselves?

More importantly, can Show pick up the entire cage and beat Cena to death with it?

As always, my 10 favorite comments from tonight’s Open Discussion Thread (invite your friends, jerks! We need some new people getting +1′d) will be featured in tomorrow’s Best And Worst Of WWE Raw column. To nominate a comment for top 10 status, reply to it with a +1. Or use the rec system. I have no idea how commenting works!

YEAHHHH

Pre-show notes:

- Please make sure to leave a comment on the report. Facebook likes and Twitter shares are huge. These take forever to write, so if you want me to keep them up instead of just posting Serbian tennis player cheesecake slideshows like a normal popular sports blog should, do your part.

- Thanks to Casey of the WWE Magazine awareness-winning Hammerlock Dialectic for pics and gifs. Two is greater than one, as they say.

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

- If you’re the type who listens to podcasts, don’t miss my two latest appearances: as the host of the With Spandex podcast with special guest the lovely Veda Scott or as the special, extremely uncool guest on the Wear The Cheese “Crash Down” podcast about Pokémon. No, seriously. They’re both pretty dorky, so pick your poison. Or pick them both!

Anyway, please enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for June 5, 2012. Less about The Troops this week.

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/presses “return” until keyboard breaks

Tonight’s WWE Open Discussion thread has a random video game image as the header in honor of PWTorch.com’s amazing, vague “show preview” that has shown up on every dirt sheet as a sneak preview of what’s going down on Raw.

- Here is the preview for tonight’s edition of WWE Monday Night Raw…

* The show will continue the build to WWE Champion CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Kane.

* The follow up from last week, where the Big Show destroyed Brodus Clay and WWE Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston & R-Truth.

* The continued build to Big Show vs. John Cena at No Way Out.

* The latest build to the World Title match between Sheamus and Alberto Del Rio at No Way Out

* Dark matches announced for tonight are: Punk vs. Bryan and a handicap match of John Cena vs. Big Show & John Laurinaitis.

Credit: pwtorch.com

Quicker version: We don’t have a preview yet but we need that sweet Google traffic, so let’s “what happened on the last show will probably keep happening”, copy-paste it four times and send it out. Pro wrestling journalism is the best. They should start adding footnotes to their Raw previews.

So yeah, we’re probably just gonna play video games tonight. As a reminder, my 10 favorite comments from tonight’s discussion will be included in tomorrow’s Best And Worst Of WWE Raw 6/4/12 report. To nominate a comment for top 10 status, please respond to it with a +1. To nominate yourself for my best friend ever, take a With Leather or @MrBrandonStroud sign to Raw and hold it in front of one of those weird creepy Sheamus cosplay kids so it’ll get on TV.

Pre-show notes:

- Please make sure to leave a comment on the report. Facebook likes and Twitter shares are huge. These take forever to write, so if you want me to keep them up instead of just posting Ultimate Handball Fails videos like a normal popular sports blog should, do your part.

- Thanks to Casey of the WWE Magazine awareness-winning Hammerlock Dialectic for pics and gifs. Without your help, the column would be 100 times more difficult to read.

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

Anyway, going to get right to it. Please enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for May 28, 2012. Memorial Day. The Troops!

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Welcome to the Memorial Day edition of the With Leather WWE Raw Open Discussion Thread, wherein the 2,000 comments from the funniest fans on the Internet is replaced by two hours of nothing but me and Lobster Mobster sharing pics. You’re probably at the pool eating hot-style dogs, but in the event you aren’t, we appreciate you being here to talk pro graps.

On tonight’s show!

Last week, Big Show knocked John Cena out cold with two punishing WMDs. Will The World’s Largest Athlete continue on his path of destruction? Can Cena recuperate and get payback on his No Way Out opponent? WWE.com breaks down these and other hot topics heading into tonight’s Raw SuperShow at 9/8 CT.

Also:

1. Will CM Punk “fall” for AJ, and if so, will he be nice to her even once?
2. Will Kane have to be around for some reason?
3. With Chris Jericho suspended into retirement (?) because of an ill-placed flag kick, will someone else randomly attack Randy Orton to set up a match at No Way Out? If so, will it be poor aborted-push Christian again?

All this and probably more on tonight’s edition of Raw.

- The top 10 comments from tonight’s discussion, assuming it’s not just me and THESTINGER talking about who we do and don’t find attractive, will be featured in tomorrow’s Best And Worst Of WWE Raw 5/28/12 report. To nominate a comment for top 10 status, please reply to it with a +1.