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Pre-show notes:

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

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

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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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Pre-show notes:

- 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

- Poll time:

Pre-show notes (hey, you should actually read this part):

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

- As I mentioned if you follow me on Twitter, this week I’m doing my second ever old show Best And Worst report for No Way Out 2007. It should be fun. Check back for that on Friday, or Saturday, or one of the weekdays after that when I’m making excuses about how I write too much.

- Comments are appreciated! You guys are pretty solid on that at this point, but by now you should be sharing the column on Facebook, “liking” it, Tweeting it, tweeting ABOUT it, whatever. Pinterest it, if that’s a thing people do.

- Images and gifs this week are courtesy of column regular THESTINGER, who did THEAWESOMEJOB. Please visit him at The Hammer Dialectic. When you’re done reading his stuff, head over to UGO and read Aubrey Sitterson’s Good Slash Bad Slash Ugly of Raw.

- This weekend is Anarchy Championship Wrestling’s first show in San Antonio in a few months, so if you’re a Best And Worst reader in the area, make it a point to stop by, hang out with me and watch a sh*t-ton of great wrestling. I’ll introduce you to Rachel and everything.

Anyway, please enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for February 13, 2012.

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Get ready for the most exciting 65 seconds on television!

Pre-show notes:

- My screencap guy bailed on me (and I’m writing this from Not My Computer, so I don’t have a reliable source for a torrent… AND WWE Fan Nation got turned into the SANTINO MARELLA SAYS FUNNY WORDS TO PEOPLE channel so so much for THOSE clips) so until I get a late-in-the-day e-mail, the pictures and such are courtesy of WWE.com. Sorry about that.

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- Additional reading: UGO’s Raw Report. I would kill to be able to get up my column as efficiently as Aubrey Sitterson. It takes me four hours just to get through the Jinder Mahal parts.

- A.J. pic featured… within? Wait, what?

Please enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for February 2, 2012.

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Tonight, the fallout from the fallout continues on the road we’ve already started traveling toward Wrestlemania (I don’t know how they classify this) continues! Last week saw a ton of great wrestling, the return of the Undertaker to challenge Triple H for a three-peat at Wrestlemania and the firing (?) of Executive Vice President of Talent Relations and Interim General Manager of Raw and Dynamic Dude and Awesome Person John Laurinaitis. What’s on tap for tonight? We can only guarantee two things:

1. a Funkasaurus
2. almost 40 seconds of him

- This week’s poll:

- As always, your comments and shares are awesome and appreciated. We’re building a great little community of people who like wrestling but aren’t total sociopathic a-holes here, and you’re more or less giving me a reason to keep watching. I love that about you.

- Remember, my ten favorite comments from tonight’s open thread will be featured in tomorrow’s Best and Worst report. Keep ‘em coming.

- p.s. what did you think of the Super Bowl? Did the halftime show remind you of Wrestlemania 9? Discuss.