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- Be sure you’ve read The Best And Worst Of Royal Rumble 2013 before you read the Raw report.

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- Don’t forget, I’m going to be live at National Pro Wrestling Day this Saturday, so if you’ve ever heard of wrestling and Pennsylvania, get there and say hi.

Sorry, I couldn’t find a HQ episode of Nitro to review. Click through for the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for January 28, 2013.

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- Comments, shares, likes, what-have-you are immensely appreciated. I’ve we’ve got 3,000 comments on the open discussion threads, we can crack 200 on the thing that takes me like 7 hours to write.

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- If you didn’t check it out last week, I got together an all-star crew to re-list WWE’s 50 Most Beautiful People In Sports-Entertainment History. The judging panel included Grantland’s Dave Shoemaker, leading Internet Comic Book Guy Chris Sims, WWE Superstar USA Guy and Dale from ‘Greek.’ It was pretty amazing. Give it a flip-through, try not to complain about slideshows and drop a comment, even if it’s to tell me you hate me for not properly evaluating Ivory, or whatever.

- If you live in the Virginia/Tennessee area, I will be attending the NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling show on the 14th of December, so if you know who I am, come by and say hi. I will need a few people there who are not toothless and yelling at me.

Now, please click through to enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for December 3, 2012.

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"I just heard about WWE this afternoon!"

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- Comments, shares, likes, what-have-you are deeply appreciated. I throw a commenting badge on every single one of these, but I’d like to just write to a community that doesn’t mind helping out and clicking a few buttons. Also, I’d run out of badges, and nobody’s going to click like for a ROMAN REIGNS’ COOL JACKET badge.

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- GIFs in this week’s report are courtesy of THESTINGER, because he is a gracious and generous Wrestling Bro.

- Chikara’s season finale ‘Under The Hood’ is airing on iPPV this weekend, and if you’re any kind of Wrestling Bro, you’ll order and watch it. It’s only $17 bucks, and you can watch it as much as you want. I guarantee you that ACH vs. Mr. Touchdown will justify a show worth three times as much.

Please click through to enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for November 26, 2012.

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- Make sure you’ve read Dan “Soupy” Campbell’s Best And Worst Of WWE Survivor Series 2012 fill-in report. He did a fantastic job filling in, and he even has a mark photo with Seth Rollins in there. Check it out.

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Please click through to enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for November 19, 2012. Well, most of it.

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- Be sure to come back to the site tonight for the Raw Open Discussion Thread, as well as tomorrow for the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw 2/20/12 report. The Rock will be there, probably!

Enjoy the report. The Best And Worst Of WWE Elimination Chamber ’12 is after the jump.

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- Before you watch (or read about) tonight’s show, be sure to catch up with The Best And Worst Of WWE No Way Out 2007, our retro show report for February. Inside you’ll find basically-naked pictures of Ashley Massaro, a discussion on the difficulties of enjoying a post Baby Murderer Chris Benoit and a gif of Melina doing her splits entrance with her vagina hanging out. Fun for the whole family!

- Tweet this to people, share this on Facebook, “like” it, Google-Plus it incessantly. Somehow we’ve managed to build a community of hundreds of reasonably-minded wrestling fans who are funny as sh*t, and I know the people in your life with a tolerant opinion of pro wres would enjoy seeing it. Let’s work together to make this break repeatedly!

- Tonight’s massive, four match card:

Raw Elimination Chamber Match for the WWE Championship
CM Punk © vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Chris Jericho vs. The Miz vs. R-Truth vs. Kofi Kingston

Smackdown Elimination Chamber Match for the World Heavyweight Championship
Daniel Bryan © vs. Wade Barrett vs. Cody Rhodes vs. Big Show vs. The Great Khali vs. Randy Orton Santino Marella

Ambulance Match
John Cena (w/ Hate) vs. Kane

WWE Divas Championship Match
Beth Phoenix © vs. Tamina sNUKA

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