Pre-show notes:

- I decided to write two Best And Worst columns this week because I hate myself. Please make sure to leave a comment, click the like button and share the column with wrestling fans you know. We want to make sure to keep bringing in new people to the community, so we don’t end up with ten people telling me everything I write is great.

- Thanks to Casey of Hammerlock Dialectic for pics and gifs, as always. More excited to get a mark photo with him at King Of Trios than Tommy Dreamer.

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

- If you just tune in to With Leather for the wrestling reports, make sure not to miss With Spandex episode 6, where I talk to WWE Superstar Derrick Bateman about N64 WWF No Mercy mods, the Cleveland Indians, star ratings and a weird fan fiction where he and Kaitlyn go out for paninins and AJ is their waitress. It’s a good time. Also, come to the site for more than the wrestling reports, jerk.

Anyway, enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE No Way Out ’12. Yes, I ordered the poster.

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WWE No Way Out airs on pay-per-view this Sunday night, starting with a YouTube exclusive pre-show match and beginning formally at 8 PM EST. With Leather and the funniest wrestling fans on the Internet will be keeping you up to date with what’s happening, what jokes to make on Twitter and claim as your own and which person in the Intercontinental Championship match is most challenging to heterosexuality (spoiler alert: Cody Rhodes).

The show is headlined by a steel cage match between John Cena and the Big Show, wherein if Big Show loses, Executive Vice President Of Talent Relations And General Manager Of Both Raw And Smackdown John Laurinaitis will be fired. However, if Big Show wins, John Cena will be fired. Oh, there are also two heavyweight championship matches happening on the show but those are way less important.

Full card is below:

- Pre-show Match: “Funkasaurus” Brodus Clay vs. Santino Marella

- Tuxedo Match: United States Champion Santino Marella vs. Ricardo Rodriguez

- Divas Championship Match: Layla (c) vs. Beth Phoenix

- Intercontinental Championship Match: Christian (c) vs. Cody Rhodes

- Triple Threat Match for the WWE Championship: CM Punk (c) vs. Kane vs. Daniel Bryan

- World Heavyweight Championship Match: Sheamus (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler

- Steel Cage Match: John Cena vs. Big Show. If Big Show loses, John Laurinaitis will be fired. If John Cena loses, he will be fired.

Notes:

- Participate in tonight’s discussion by clicking the “like” button at the top of the page (right under the headline) and sharing it on Twitter during the show and you’ll unlock the greatest With Leather commenter badge yet: the PEOPLE POWER badge, a revolution in badge entertainment. This may be our last ever opportunity to celebrate the glorious life and achievements of Mr. John Laurinaitis, so make sure you earn it, and tell your friends to stop by and get one themselves.

- My ten favorite comments from tonight’s open discussion thread will be featured in tomorrow’s Best And Worst Of WWE No Way Out ’12 show report. To nominate a comment for top ten status, please reply to it with a +1. Try not to nominate “omg AJ is sooo hawt” over and over.

Pre-show notes:

- Please make sure to leave a comment on the report. Facebook likes and Twitter shares are huge. These take forever to write, so if you want me to keep them up instead of just posting Ultimate Handball Fails videos like a normal popular sports blog should, do your part.

- Thanks to Casey of the WWE Magazine awareness-winning Hammerlock Dialectic for pics and gifs. Without your help, the column would be 100 times more difficult to read.

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

Anyway, going to get right to it. Please enjoy the Best And Worst Of WWE Raw for May 28, 2012. Memorial Day. The Troops!

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Welcome to the Memorial Day edition of the With Leather WWE Raw Open Discussion Thread, wherein the 2,000 comments from the funniest fans on the Internet is replaced by two hours of nothing but me and Lobster Mobster sharing pics. You’re probably at the pool eating hot-style dogs, but in the event you aren’t, we appreciate you being here to talk pro graps.

On tonight’s show!

Last week, Big Show knocked John Cena out cold with two punishing WMDs. Will The World’s Largest Athlete continue on his path of destruction? Can Cena recuperate and get payback on his No Way Out opponent? WWE.com breaks down these and other hot topics heading into tonight’s Raw SuperShow at 9/8 CT.

Also:

1. Will CM Punk “fall” for AJ, and if so, will he be nice to her even once?
2. Will Kane have to be around for some reason?
3. With Chris Jericho suspended into retirement (?) because of an ill-placed flag kick, will someone else randomly attack Randy Orton to set up a match at No Way Out? If so, will it be poor aborted-push Christian again?

All this and probably more on tonight’s edition of Raw.

- The top 10 comments from tonight’s discussion, assuming it’s not just me and THESTINGER talking about who we do and don’t find attractive, will be featured in tomorrow’s Best And Worst Of WWE Raw 5/28/12 report. To nominate a comment for top 10 status, please reply to it with a +1.

Pre-show notes:

- Thanks for your patience with this week’s report. The Monday Night Raw Watch Party II at The ND this week was a big success, but the downside is that it makes me watch Raw twice and generally F’s the scheduling in the A. The fill-in Over The Limit report didn’t work out as planned, so at the risk of having you guys be all Royal Rumble 2012 about it, that report is pending.

- For the record, I was watching great wrestling and taking promo photos on Sunday night.

- Please make sure to leave a comment on the report. Facebook likes and Twitter shares are huge. These take forever to write, so if you want me to keep them up instead of just posting basketball videos like a normal popular sports blog should, do your part.

- Thanks to Casey for pics and gifs, as always. Can’t wait to BRO IT UP with you at King of Trios this year.

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

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