Pre-show notes:

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Please click through to enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for November 12, 2012. Or just hack into your friend’s phone and read it later.

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CELLSHOCKED~!

Pre-show notes:

- Comments, likes and shares are appreciated. We’ve got some handy “share” buttons at the bottom of every post, so all you need to do is click a couple of buttons to make sure I keep getting paid to not pay for and review wrestling pay-per-views. PPV columns never get as many shares or comments as weekly Raws, so if you want me to keep doing them, help me out.

- Special thanks to Jerusalem at Punchsport Pagoda for providing GIFs.

- All photos in this post are courtesy of WWE.com. If you’re a WWE representative and are looking to sue me for unauthorized use of said photos, I didn’t get them from you, I stole them all from Busted Coverage.

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That should do it. Please click through to enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Hell In A Cell 2012, and to not enjoy its actual pre-show.

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WWE Hell In A Cell 2012 airs live on pay-per-view Sunday night, October 28, and as always, With Leather has brought the funniest wrestling fans on the Internet together for a night of predictions, jokes and conversation. It’s Hell! It’s inside of a cell!

Tonight’s card:

- Hell In A Cell Match for the WWE Championship: CM Punk (c) vs. Ryback

- World Heavyweight Championship Match: Sheamus (c) vs. The Big Show

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

- Randy Orton vs. Alberto Del Rio

- Intercontinental Championship Match: Kofi Kingston (c) vs. The Miz

- Triple Threat Match for the Divas Championship: Eve Torres (c) vs. Layla vs. Kaitlyn

My 10 favorite comments from tonight’s WWE Hell In A Cell 2012 live thread will be featured in tomorrow’s Best And Worst Of WWE Hell In A Cell 2012 report. Give me that sweet SEO traffic! To nominate a comment for top 10 status, please reply to it with a +1.

As an added bonus, you can unlock the CM Punk RESPECT badge by sharing tonight’s live discussion thread. All you have to do is click one of the social media buttons at the bottom of this post (Twitter or Facebook) between now and the end of the show. You get to share an awesome community of wrestling fans with your friends, AND you get devil-face Punk on your UPROXX commenter profile.

So who’s winning tonight?

I hope they got their name from an old flash drive.

Pre-show notes:

- Comments, shares, likes, what-have-you are greatly appreciated. I’m like [ ] this close to expanding the Best And Worst brand™ into a regular second column (be it Smackdown, Impact or The Best And Worst Of Dragon Gate Infinity, which only I would read), so if you can help me take a few more steps forward in popularity, I’ll pay you back in jokes. Or Akira Tozawa matches. One or the other.

- Thanks as always to Casey/THESTINGER of Hammerlock Dialectic for GIFs.

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

- We’ve got an exclusive interview with EVE TORRES going up tomorrow on With Leather (no joke), so if you read this column, make sure you check back for it on Wednesday. It’s going to be real.

- My trip to WrestleMania XXIX is officially being planned, so if you’re anywhere near the New York/New Jersey area and want to be Wrestling Bros In The Snow with me next April, start scheduling it now.

Anyway, please click through to enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for October 15, 2012.

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Pre-show notes:

- If you guys don’t mind clicking the like button on this post or sharing it on Twitter, I’d be greatly appreciative. Comments are also appreciated, especially if they have something to do with anything in the column, and not just what you think of John Cena’s pink shirt.

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

- Subway is a terrible restaurant.

- I wasn’t able to watch Night Of Champions, so the existence of that report is pending. Not a lot happened, honestly, that wasn’t indirectly recapped by this column. I might just call it and prep myself for a massive Hell In A Cell report. Or I might skip that too and just start reviewing Kaiju Big Battel DVDs. Regardless, tons of writing in here, so enjoy.

The Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for September 17, 2012, is after the jump.

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Tonight’s card for WWE Night Of Champions 2012, the annual event celebrating the one night a year WWE remembers it has more than two champions:

- Pre-show Battle Royal to determine the #1 contender to the United States Championship (participants unannounced)

- Triple Threat Match for the Intercontinental Championship: The Miz (c) vs. Cody Rhodes vs. Rey Mysterio

- Randy Orton vs. Dolph Ziggler

- United States Championship Match: Antonio Cesaro (c) vs. pre-show battle royal winner

- Tag Team Championship Match: R-Truth and Kofi Kingston (c) vs. Daniel Bryan and Kane

- Divas Championship Match: Layla (c) vs. Kaitlyn

- WWE Championship Match: CM Punk (c) vs. John Cena

- World Heavyweight Championship Match: Sheamus (c) vs. Alberto Del Rio

The best part of our discussion tonight is special guest Peter Rosenberg. If you’re wondering why the hell he’d want to sit and talk to a bunch of wrestling nerds about Night Of Champions, 1) we’re lucky, and 2) his Hot 97 bio is brave enough to actually feature the words “pro wrestling”.

In the nearly 2 years that he has been on New York’s Hot 97, Peter Rosenberg has made an indelible mark on New York radio and the global hip hop landscape. His voice can be heard every weekday morning on Cipha Sounds and Rosenberg, a morning show that is revolutionizing urban radio, and every Sunday night on Real Late with Peter Rosenberg. His persona on both of these shows, characterized by his quirky and unique spin on hip hop culture and New York life has made him a fixture on the hip hop scene. But what has endeared him to people most has been his undying passion for everything he covers, whether it’s hip hop, sports, professional wrestling, comedy, politics or entertainment.

Peter’s going to be stopping by for a pre-show pre-show Q+A at 6 PM tonight, so if you’ve got any questions about him, his career, what he thinks about Night Of Champions or how terrible Nicki Minaj is, make sure to drop a comment below and preface it with @Peter so he’ll have an easier time answer it. This is an awesome opportunity for us, so let’s make him feel welcome.

How To Unlock:

Log into UPROXX (or create an account), then share your participation in today’s live discussion on Facebook or Twitter to unlock the ‘Heath Slater ONE MAN BADGE.’

You want this. So let’s have fun hanging out with Peter Rosenberg, then slightly less fun watching Alberto Del Rio lose again.