Tonight, on a three-hour Twitter poll:

The Shield stood alone as WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs drew to its chaotic close, with the renegade triumvirate knocking off Ryback & Team Hell No in a frenzied Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match in the bowels of Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Barclays Center. And now that the dust has settled, the fate of WWE is up in the air — as the band of rogues continues their vicious mission to restore “justice” to WWE. Will their crusade include attacks on a new slew of targets? Only time will tell.

And what of AJ Lee’s betrayal on John Cena? How will the former Raw General Manager justify costing the Cenation Leader the Money in the Bank contract?

On a lighter note: It’s the Slammys! That magical time of year when the WWE Universe gathers to honor the best, the brightest, the biggest, the smallest the weirdest, the trendiest and the Tout-iest of the year that was. Will WWE Champion CM Punk repeat as Superstar of the Year? Or will The Shield endeavor to crash this party as well? There’s only one way to find out, but before you do, here’s our five-point preview for this week’s Raw … (via WWE.com)

Five-point preview:

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We don’t get to cover too much fetish news these days, so it’s nice to see that TMZ was able to catch up to WWE Hall of Famer Tony Atlas and get his input on what a lady can do to win his heart. And the answer to that, in case our millions of female readers are desperate to know, is by stomping on Tony’s face while wearing big shoes.

Move over, Rex Ryan. There’s a new foot loving sheriff in town.

TMZ has obtained video of Atlas at an indie wrestling event in Maine last week — and in the extremely bizarre clip, Atlas gleefully shares some face-stomping footage with a fellow wrestler … footage Atlas commissioned himself.

Oh it’s true. I’ve got the footage after the jump. Atlas looks like a kid on Christmas morning as an unidentified woman goes to town on his dome. So is the former Pro Wrestling Illustrated Wrestler of the Year embarrassed by this newfound public knowledge? Of course not. He’ll gladly show the video to anyone who wants to watch, and I’m guessing he’d even let a lady fan get a kick or two in for good measure.

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- SITE NEWS #1: We’re going to be running a TLC predictions contest on Friday where you can drop a comment and win $250 bucks. It didn’t work out so well for us with Vengeance (thanks a lot, Mark Henry breaking the ring) but I’ve got to give that purse to somebody. Be sure to check back throughout the week for that.

- SITE NEWS #2: Next weekend is my girlfriend Destiny’s birthday, so I’m not going to be around for TLC or Raw reports. Thankfully I’ve got a lot of funny ass friends, so SB Nation and Baseball Feelings writer Bill Hanstock will be filling in with a Best and Worst of WWE TLC 2011 report and Progressive Boink and The Best and Worst of Smackdown Live-Blog’s own Justin O’Connor will be filling in on Best and Worst of Raw. They’re awesome, so read those and support them.

- All internal gifs are courtesy of Jerusalem at Punchsport Pagoda.

- For further Raw reading, please consult UGO’s The Good The Bad And The Ugly and John Canton’s The WWE Raw Deal. They have slightly more positive outlooks on the show than me, but my report has pictures of A.J. (read mine first)

This show was three hours and killed me four minutes in, so I apologize in advance. Click through to enjoy The Best And Worst Of The Slammy Awards.

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