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- Comments, shares, likes, what-have-you are greatly appreciated. I need your help to make this continue being a thing. Do your part! It’s like Starship Troopers, but with wrestling columns.

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- If you like reading my thoughts on wrestling and wish I wrote about something other than WWE, be sure to hop over to Tom Holzerman’s The Wrestling Blog to read my review for Anarchy Championship Wrestling’s 2012 Lone Star Classic. I can curse without stars over there!

- Don’t just skim past that into graphic thinking you know what it says.

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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Pre-taped pre-show notes:

- Comments, shares, likes, what-have-you are greatly appreciated. Let your friends and wrestling pals in on the jokes, or at least the big long-winded paragraphs about women’s rights!

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- I had a big weekend, so if you’re the type who only checks With Leather for the wrestling reports, please take an active interest in my non-wrestling life: You can check out the teaser trailer and posters for my feature film debut in ‘Summer League,’ then visit my gallery of sports from Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012, featuring me as an Air Sex Championships judge and as the YES-chant-starting host of a Veggie Hot Dog Eating Contest. Fun times.

- I may (may) need someone to fill in for me on the Survivor Series report, so if you’re an Internet or real life person of note and are interested, shoot me an e-mail at MrBrandonStroud@gmail.com.

Anyway, please click through to enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for November 5, 2012.

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Pre-show notes:

- Make sure you read the Best And Worst Of WWE Hell In A Cell 2012 before reading about Raw, or you won’t know who everyone is or what’s happened so far! (I wish wrestling worked like actual stories.)

- Comments, shares, likes, what-have-you are greatly appreciated. Be a wrestling bro!

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- Halloween costumes are at the very end, make sure you don’t miss them.

And now, please click through and enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for October 29, 2012.

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CELLSHOCKED~!

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- 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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Pre-show notes:

- Comments, shares, likes, what-have-you are greatly appreciated. It takes less than one second from your day and helps me continue to get paid for writing hacky Watchmen references and John Carter jokes in a wrestling column on a sports blog. I love you, and if you don’t want to hit me in the head with a brick, this is your best way to show me.

- As always, thank you to Casey/THESTINGER of Hammerlock Dialectic for GIFs.

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

- If you missed out interview with Eve Torres, be sure to check that out here. Or, you know, find the 411 Wrestling post that copied in paragraphs from it and reported it as exclusive news. Part of it is about punching Doink The Clown in the face, it’s pretty great.

- Repost: 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.

And now, please click through to enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for October 22, 2012.

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- Comments, shares, likes, what-have-you are really appreciated. We want to keep building the community, and not just get comfortable talking about wrestling in this weird oasis we’ve built where Damian Sandow is the coolest guy in the room and CM Punk has a bunch of problems. Share this with your family, friends, people you’ve never met, and (as a last resort), those people you know from the forum. You know the one I’m talking about.

- Thanks as always to Casey/THESTINGER of Hammerlock Dialectic for GIFs, which make their triumphant return to this week’s column.

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

- There’s a thing about CM Punk punching a dude near the end of the column, but don’t get excited, I didn’t write much about it. If you’re here for the first time, welcome, and try to like wrestling when it isn’t mainstream-awful!

Regardless, please enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for October 8, 2012.

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