Brock Lesnar! Triple H! CM Punk! John Cena! Big Show! Daniel Bryan! Get excited folks, because the biggest party of the summer is coming up. There are still some big question marks left that will surely be resolved by Friday, but for the most part WWE did a pretty nice job of setting up the excitement for the third of their “Big Four” PPV’s of 2012.

Hosted by: Joshua Schlag (@thesteelcage / @schlizzag)

Featuring: Adam ‘A-Bomb’ Hess (@ahess49), Darrell Johnson (@zazzumplop / @nostraslammus), and Bryan ‘Pipe Bomb’ Gregston (@guitarsalad)

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Joshua Schlag

For most of the last 30+ years of my life, I've been watching WWE. As a kid, Monday Night Raw hooked me from the start. From Bret Hart and Razor Ramon, to Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock, to CM Punk and Daniel Bryan.. I've witnessed the ups and downs and I'm proud to have enjoyed pro wrestling through the years.

Though I now watch in a much different fashion than I did when I was a kid (finding out Vince McMahon was the owner and Jack Tunney no more than a figurehead was like finding out Santa Claus did not exist), I feel like I have a much greater appreciation for the hard work pro wrestlers do and the things they sacrifice to entertain us.

It's still real to me, dammit!