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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You're welcome.

Pre-show notes:

- Comments, shares, likes, and anything else that gets people to come here are appreciated. Thanks to the folks at Reddit for liking/posting last week’s thing. You are all my pals on the Internet.

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

- GIFS courtesy of Jerusalem over at Punchsport Pagoda.

- This is the last week for our Meet Me There fundraiser, and we’ve only got a few days left. If we can push it over the 5K mark, I’ll consider it a win and a blessing. Huge, huge thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, even if you did so passive-aggressively! Head over to IndieGogo and buy a shirt or a poster or a DVD or something, friend!

- For additional wrestling jokes, be sure to check out 51 Random, Awesome WWE Promo Photos.

And now, complete with helicopter entrance, here’s the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for April 22, 2013.

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Please allow United States President George Washington “Linda” McMahon to usher you into the latest in our series of embarrassing pro wrestler 8×10 treasuries, now helpfully categorized as “This Week In Horrible-Looking People.”

If you’ve missed any of our previous galleries, be sure to check out the cheesy late-80s/early-90s WWF promo photos, the extremely 1990s photos of Extreme Championship Wrestling and parts 1 and 2 of our vintage WCW promo run. Believe it or not, there are still about a thousand embarrassing pictures of wrestlers that were printed into stacks of 8x10s with the intention of them being signed and handed to strangers. Wrestling is weird.

So for the first installment of our infinite new series, please enjoy 51 of my favorite random, amazing WWE promo photos from the 90s, 2000s and today. Warning: a veiny John Cena is inside.

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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.

- 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 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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Pre-show notes:

- Things you should read from the last week of posts at The Mandible Claw include the thing I wrote about Donald Trump’s “appearance” on the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling and an hour of me and Danielle talking to ACW and National Pro Wrestling Day star Jojo Bravo. Also, everything else on the site. You should check it out daily.

- Comments, shares, likes, and anything else that gets people to come here are appreciated. There’s some important stuff on the next page, so be sure not to skim it, and to make everyone you know on the Internet and in real life read it. Also, the jokes.

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

- GIFS courtesy of Jerusalem at Punchsport Pagoda.

- We’re doing some fun stuff over at The Mandible Claw, so be sure to head over there when you’re done with the report and check some stuff out.

And now, Raw goes REGULAR SCHOOL! The Best and Worst of WWE Raw for March 11, 2013, is after the jump.

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YOU MADE ME BLEED MY OWN FEELS

Pre-show notes:

- Comments, shares, likes, and what-have-you are appreciated. Do me a solid. I’m writing a lot of words for your enjoyment.

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

- If you’re going to WrestleMania this year … hey, so are we! Me, Best and Worst of Impact’s Danielle, GIFmaster General THESTINGER and pretty much everyone else from the online wrestling world will be there, so if you will be too, let one of us know. We’ll do a thing. Even if that thing is “make sure we all sit together at Chikara.”

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

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