- Follow us on Twitter @withleather
- Follow me personally @MrBrandonStroud and Burnsy @MayorBurnsy
- Like us on Facebook.

Links

Heisman Winner Robert Griffin III Will Make The Leap To The League - Good for him. Hopefully the NFL of 2015 is only rookies, and they’re all exceeding expectations. [Smoking Section]

25 Of The Most Normal Photos Of Rappers Doing Normal Sh*t - I’ve always wanted a Golden Treasury of Ludacris on the toilet. “My poop is colorful – BALLOONS!” etc. [UPROXX]

We Have A Special Treat For You If You ‘Like’ Us On Facebook - An exclusive 5-Second Films film! If you like With Leather on Facebook all it gets you is the Kate Upton sex tape. What a rip-off! [UPROXX]

Jon Huntsman’s Super Cute Daughters Will Unite Us All - These girls ain’t got nothin’ on Meghan McCain. And trust me, as someone who grew up in the religious mecca of central Virginia, it’s no surprise to me that a super Republican has foxy daughters. [Warming Glow]

The 10 Cheesiest Movie Moments Of 2011 - It’s hard to say “hey, I disagree” at Film Drunk, but I still don’t agree with him about Moneyball. Literally every emotional moment in the history of movies is derivative of human emotion in some way and “manufactured”, unless we’re exclusively watching Errol Morris DVDs. Plus, Mark Shapiro looked exactly like Mark Shapiro, so come on. [Film Drunk]

Corporate Response To Star Wars Complaint Letter Is The Best Ever Corporate Response - I’m going to start sending in complaint letters to UPROXX every time we post something about Star Wars. [Gamma Squad]

The 30 Best Taco-Related Crimes Ever - #31, giving Shaq TNS (Taco Neck Syndrome) and ruining the prime of his NBA career. [Buzzfeed]

10 Movies You Had No Idea Were Turned Into TV Shows - Another excuse for me to link you to that Uncle Buck theme I shared a few months ago. It is easily the best TV credits theme of all time. [The FW]

Paul Rudd To *Literally* Guest Star On “Parks and Recreation” - Truefax: if Paul Rudd was ugly he wouldn’t have been in a single movie. [FARK]

20 Underappreciated Gems Currently Playing on Netflix Instant - Hulu has them beat: it has the Christmas movie where Bruce Vilanch is an emotional elf. [Pajiba]

This ‘Kate Upton Rocks the World’ Video Will Shatter Your Mind - It’s nothing you haven’t seen before, but you should watch it anyway. The success or failure of our website is directly related to how often Kate Upton does things. [Brobible]

The Summer Glau Comic-Con Pose GIF - This is why I can’t pay to meet celebrities at cons. They absolutely do not give a sh*t that I like them. [NextRound]

Welp!

- Follow us on Twitter @withleather
- Follow me personally @MrBrandonStroud and Burnsy @MayorBurnsy
- Like us on Facebook.

Links

The Rearview Mirror: Five MMA Trends We Hope To Have Left Behind In 2011 - I’d like to add one: “hitting Brock Lesnar in the stomach”. That’s just wrong. [Cage Potato]

The 2011 UPROXX People Of The Year Awards - If you just thought Burnsy wrote about sports, get ready to be surprised! He also bestows prestigious awards upon celebrities! [UPROXX]

The 20 Most Important Meme Watches Of 2011 - Idiot nerd girl is great and all, but how did Excited Soccer Kid get left off of this? Or Tebowing, for that matter. [UPROXX]

The Year in Weird: The 10 Most Insane News Stories of 2011 - The Bang Bus guy wins this in a walk, although “Brandon stumbling upon Allie Sin’s five or six mugshots” is my personal number 11. Poor lady. Contact me, I’ll make you some food! [Film Drunk]

The 2011 Finale: The 100 Other Unforgettable Songs We Enjoyed - A joke about Natalie Cole. But no, seriously, UPROXX is knocking these retrospective lists out of the park. [Smoking Section]

5 Video Game Non-Stories We Obsessed Over Too Much in 2011 - I hope “I’m not going to buy Skyrim because it has serious frame-rate issues” is on here. If you have ever said that, I legitimately hate you and will punch you in the face in real life. [Gamma Squad]

R.I.P. All the Terrible Shows (and a Few Good Ones) We Lost in 2011 - Rest in peace, ‘Castle’, we hardly knew ye. (Castle is still on, isn’t it) [Warming Glow]

25 People Who Woke Up On New Year’s Day In A Strange Place - #26, Ashton Kutcher. Woke up in Lea Michele’s apartment, where Pink’s “Raise Your Glass” was playing on loop. [Buzzfeed]

2012 Movie Preview: Big Directors, from Steven Soderbergh to Quentin Tarantino - …from Steven Soderbergh to Quentin Tarantino to Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan! Ah sh*t, nobody else liked Can’t Hardly Wait and Josie and the Pussycats as much as me, did they? [Moviefone]

Pajiba’s 10th Annual Top 10 Top 10 Lists of 2011 - Next year they should do the top 10 top 10 top 10 lists and really blow our minds. [Pajiba]

On Sunday night, WWE presents their third pay-per-view event in 35 days, Vengeance. The show is headlined by a Last Man Standing Match between WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio and John Cena, as well as a match between World Heavyweight Champion wig-splitter Mark Henry and the returning Big Show. It will also feature the last drop of milk being drawn from the damaged, quivering teet of wrestling fans, so we thought we’d make it fun.

In celebration of the UPROXX™ Network’s brand new commenting system, With Leather is introducing the first (and possibly only) WWE Pay-Per-View Predictions Challenge. All you have to do is register with the site and post your predictions for who will win each match and how (pinfall, submission, disqualification, count-out, that sort of thing) in the comments section of This Very Post. If you get them all correct, you’ll win a $250 gift card from Amazon.com that you can use to buy … whatever you want, really. Wrestling DVDs. 10 copies of That’s What I Am. Anything. Just remember to get them in before the show on Sunday night or it won’t count.

Here’s the announced card.

1. World Heavyweight Championship Match: Mark Henry © vs. The Big Show

2. Last Man Standing Match for the WWE Championship: Alberto Del Rio © vs. John Cena

3. Tag Team Match: Triple H and CM Punk vs. R-Truth and The Miz

4. Randy Orton vs. Cody Rhodes

5. Divas Championship Match: Beth Phoenix © vs. Eve Torres

6. Sheamus vs. Christian

7. United States Championship Match: Dolph Ziggler © vs. Zack Ryder *or* WWE Tag Team Championship Match: Air Boom © vs. Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger

That’s going by some announcements that’re supposed to go down on Smackdown tonight, although they announced Air Boom vs. Ziggler and Jack Swagger on Monday, so we’re just gonna have to play that one by ear. If you want to make your predictions early, just go ahead and include predics for them both. If more than one person correctly picks the results and finishes, we’ll pool the winners and use Raw as a tie-breaker. Just remember, the pay-per-view happens THIS SUNDAY NIGHT, so anything posted after 7 PM EST tomorrow will be disqualified.

So yeah, sign up for an account with UPROXX and make your choices. This is open to anybody who signs up, so tell your friends and neighbors to come on over and participate. Share it on whatever dirt sheet forums you frequent, pitch it to the Wrestlecrap guy, tweet it to Bill Simmons, whatever. Let’s make it an event! And then have two more events immediately afterwards!

Welcome to day one of With Leather’s “Make People Say Stuff” Initiative, where we stop openly begging you to comment on posts throughout the day and try to lure you into an Inception’d sense of commenting urgency with a new social set-up, complete with incentives and, once we figure out what to give you, WONDERFUL PRIZES. Couple that with our free fantasy football game (click the busty cheerleaders above or below this post) and we’re basically the ATM of websites. Consider “being interested in things” as your $5 usage charge.

The current features of the new commenting system are:

- Signup using Facebook or Twitter
- Universal login on any Uproxx site
- User Profiles — comments made on any Uproxx site are
aggregated on your profile
- Profile Avatars — use your Facebook, Twitter or a custom avatar
- Clickable avatars — shows mini profile with recent comments

And, if that wasn’t enough, Coming Soon:

- Direct messaging
- Threaded replies to comments
- Commenting awards and badges

So it’s pretty cool. Hop down into the comments here and let us know what you think, because hey, the way we give out rewards is random at this point and I might decide to give you a gift. Just kidding, I’m giving it to Upstate Underdog.

Links

Brandon McCarthy Of The Athletics Knows What The Dugout Is - In one of the most important moments of my creative life, a guy who plays baseball likes my baseball comic. Unbelievable. Turns out all I had to do was hate a player everyone hates already! [@BMcCarthy32]

New ‘Justified’ Villains Cast! - Anne Hathaway in a leather suit! Tom Hardy with a jockstrap on his face! [Warming Glow]

Reddit’s Jailbait Message Board Shut Down For Good, It Seems - This calls for a wistful Bob Dylan-scored retrospective. First the Camwhores chan threads where you could find naked pictures of Mitra, and now this. RIP [UPROXX]

First Avengers Trailer Is Finally Here - This, combined with the joke I made in this week’s Best and Worst of Raw, is going to make me go to BuyBacks and buy A Love Song For Bobby Long, or as I like to call it, Scarlett Johansson Smoking: The Movie. [Gamma Squad]

23 Famous People You Didn’t Know Were Mormon - Hold on, Julie from ‘The Real World’ is a Mormon? No way. [Buzzfeed]

TV Chef Claims Eating Puppy Meat Is No Worse Than Pork - I’m sure this’ll get met with a dismissive wank by the “lol bacon” crowd, but there you go. Also, I don’t know if you noticed it, but eating shrimp is like eating wet cockroaches. [FARK]

Paula Deen Flirts With Matt Lauer - Not as good as the “Giada de Laurentiis Flirts With Brandon Stroud” story I wrote in my sleep last night. [AOL TV]

Restaurant Customer Leaves Negative $2 Tip and Tells the Waitress to Lose Weight - Or as it was originally titled, “facetious dickhead now hilarious to facetious dickheads on Internet”. [The Daily What]

Fun with Penis Confusion: Comparing Alison Brie’s Cleavage to Joel McHale’s Buttcrack - With a close enough proximity to Alison Brie, I really wouldn’t care if that was Joel McHale’s buttcrack. [Pajiba]

Most Likely the Nerdiest Tattoo on the Planet - The guy with the Hulk Hogan Flexing backpiece gently weeps. [Unreality]

Happy Columbus Day, everybody. I’m going to celebrate by going into my friend’s house, telling him I live there now, then giving him a terminal disease. And then I’m going to try to sell all of my brown-skinned friends. Columbus!

Links

Changes In The UPROXX Media Network’s Commenting System Are A-Comin’ - Rating systems, posting incentives and more are heading your way, and two weeks after they arrive I’ll figure out how to leave comments again and thank you for supporting UPROXX© brand media. [UPROXX]

Worst UFC Cake Ever - This is what happens when you spend too much time on the cage and not enough time on the fighters. The line between “MMA guys” and “gay gentlemen watching the clouds” is razor thin. [The Fight Nerd]

Jeremy Bridges Pooped His Pants - His punishment should be never wearing those white uniforms again. Sometimes they just knock the sh*t out of you, I guess. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

Real Steel Review: A Terrifying Commercial For A Dystopian Future - They totally skip over the 100 years or so when people go THIS IS FAKE, ROBOTS AIN’T EVEN REALLY PEOPLE. Also, I don’t ever want to see a commercial for this f**king movie ever again. [Film Drunk]

The Problem With ‘Terra Nova’: Boring Characters - The other problem is Transformers disease: if you make a show about battling space robots, have the space robots battle each other, don’t show me what Average White American thinks about it. [Gamma Squad]

Lil Wayne Delivers 30-Minute PSA On His Legacy And Steve Jobs - He admired Steve Jobs’ poppin’ bottles and dipping just as much as Steve admired bartending and stripping. [Smoking Section]

Trailer for Reincarnated ‘Beavis & Butt-Head’ - So good. Now bring back Dog Boy! [Warming Glow]

10 Famous People Without Their Famous Facial Hair - See what Brian Wilson looked like before he started trying too hard! Also, Ron Swanson sans mustache is still the weirdest thing ever. He looks like a pug. [Buzzfeed]

The Most Banned Horror Movies in History - I miss the 70s, where you could just rip a turtle apart on film and rape somebody and it was considered a classic. [Moviefone]

Ben & Jerry’s Supports Occupy Wall Street - I bet the hard-assed Republicans at Rice Dream think otherwise. [The Daily What]

The Ten Best Cartoons From The 80s - Normally this kind of thing doesn’t bother me, but I want to know who at Unreality Mag decided “cartoons I remember from the 80s” was a good and unique idea in goddamned 2011 on the Internet. That list was played out back when we were starting X-Entertainment in like 1999. [Unreality]

With our skank powers combined...

About 10 years ago I started a fantasy baseball league with some friends, and this year I finally joined it again after not playing for four years because I’m f*cking terrible at fantasy baseball. I’m currently in second place now that I’ve figured out basic roto rules for the first time in my life, but this whole Draftstreet thing that we’ve been pushing is a completely different devil. And I’m in love with it, so you all should sign up for our free league, too.

Unlike Brandon, though, I won’t admit where I finished the last time around – let’s just say that I was competing for the opposite end of the standings. But I’ve spent all day emailing friends while cursing Otis Smith over Orlando Magic trade rumors and swearing that I could run a franchise better than him, and thankfully this Draftstreet league keeps me grounded and reminds me that I’m a moron. But now the stakes are raised, amigos. We’ve got the whole Uproxx secret mansion wired up for this league and we’re going to be talking plenty of trash to each other. Like just this morning I emailed Vince from FilmDrunk and I was all like, “Hey bro, you suck” and he was like, “No way, bro. You.” I know, sh*t’s already intense.

Oh, I guess I should mention the main reason that you should sign up, in case you’ve missed Brandon’s posts about this awesome opportunity. You can win $300 if you win our league. It costs nothing to join, just takes a few minutes to fill out your roster (or 47 minutes if you’re like me and you start analyzing statistical-value-compared-to-price GRRRRRRR I FAILED COLLEGE ALGEBRA THREE TIMES!!!) and all you have to do is make sure none of your guys are dead before the games begin. It’s easy. Like your sister. Yes, that’s a burn and that’s about all I’ll win this time, too. SIGN UP HERE NOW so Brandon will stop teabagging me during our Uproxx slumber parties.