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- Be sure you’re reading With Leather’s This Week In Horrible-Looking People every Monday. This week we did a thing about WWF trading cards from 1992. Three different Virgil cards! You’d hate yourself if you missed that.

- Before you read this week’s column, be sure you’ve read The Best And Worst Of WWE Payback by guest writer Nick Bonds. Big thanks to him for filling in on that. Check it out and tell him nice things.

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Please click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for June 17, 2013. THAT’S WHAT YOU DO.

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- Brandon here. Our special guest writer for the Best and Worst of WWE Payback No Year Necessary is Mr. Nick Bond. If you don’t know who he is:

Nick Bond is the managing editor at The Classical, he’s written for Buzzfeed, and he also runs a wrestling blog called Juice Make Sugar with his best friend Dave. He tweets using his self-appointed, third-person nickname (@TheN1ckster) from high school, because he lacks the ability to process shame. He, like Patty Smyth (and Sergeant Hatred) before him, is a warrior and will die at the hand of his archenemy.

Give him a warm welcome or I will come to your house and fight you in real life.

- Comments, likes, shares and what-have-you are all appreciated.

And that’s it! Please click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Payback. Take it away, Nick.

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The inaugural WWE Payback pay-per-view airs live tonight at 8PM EST, beginning with an online pre-show event beginning at 7:30. Payback is headlined by a “three stages of hell” match between WWE Champion John Cena and challenger Ryback, featuring a lumberjack, tables and ambulance match in a 2-out-3 falls setting. The hilarious With Leather readers will be discussion the thread all night long, so be sure to stop by and hang out and unlock your Paul Heyman Guy badge.

The full card is below.

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- Comments, shares, likes, and anything else that gets people to come here are appreciated, as always. If this column becomes the most successful Best and Worst column ever, I’ll eat a Hardee’s Thickburger. Just kidding, I absolutely will not.

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- Be sure you’re reading With Leather’s This Week In Horrible-Looking People every Monday. This week we did a WCW retrospective, and yes, it does feature me mentioning how much I love The Cat. Again. I don’t have enough opportunities to do that.

- Also, be sure you’re reading my Best and Worst of NXT column. It needs your support, and will come in handy when guys get called up and you wanna know who’s good and why.

Please click through to enjoy six slices of bacon and the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for June 10, 2013.

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Best in the world.

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- 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. This week we did part 2 of TNA Impact Wrestling, and there is more than one Traci Brooks photo. Go check that out.

- I’m looking for somebody to fill in on the Best and Worst of WWE Payback report (the show’s on June 16). If you’re an Internet type of note and want to give a wrestling report on With Leather a try, shoot me an e-mail at mrbrandonstroud@gmail.com and I’ll consider you. It does require you to actually follow through with a long-ass verbose report, so keep that in mind when applying.

This week’s a special one, so I’ll let you get to it. Please click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for June 6, 2013.

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- Comments, shares, likes, and anything else that gets people to come here are appreciated, as always. Want to convince UPROXX to give us a dedicated wrestling blog? SHARE THE MESS OUT OF THIS.

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

- Be sure you’re reading With Leather’s This Week In Horrible-Looking People every Monday. This week we covered TNA, if you ever wanted a place to read me making TNA jokes. Spoiler: they are super easy.

- Want to listen to me and some pals discuss that time Goldust flew into Austin and filmed some scenes for a movie I wrote? Go listen to episode one of the Greenless Studios podcast about Meet Me There, won’t you?

Hey, don’t cry! Click through to enjoy the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for Memorial Day, May 27, 2013.

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