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

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

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- 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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You're welcome.

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- 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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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.

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- 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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- 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 at Punchsport Pagoda.

- IMPORTANT REMINDER: I AM MAKING A MOVIE AND COULD SURE USE YOUR HELP. Me and a guy you’ve probably heard of (Goldust) (no, seriously) are making a horror movie in Austin this May called Meet Me There, and it’s gonna be rad. It also sorta needs your help, so if you read the report and you want to be my friend forever (or you are ridiculously rich), please consider hopping on over to our IndieGogo fundraiser and chipping in. There are a lot of cool perks, and it’s a great way to say “hey, I appreciate this wordy-ass wrestling column you write every week. LIVE YOUR DREAMS.”

Please click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for March 25, 2013.

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