Welcome to the Wrestlemania go-home edition of The Raw Story. First, grant me these bullet points before jumping into this week’s column:

• I’m changing it up this week. Instead of a recapping Raw, I thought it would be an appropriate change of pace to give my Wrestlemania 28 predictions. I guess I could have attempted to do both, but that’d just be ridiculous, so no. [Editor's Note: My eyes appreciate it, Daniel.]
• The order of predictions in this column is based on how important I think each match is in relation to the entire lineup (from least to most important), and not how I think the actual order will shake out come Sunday.
• Whether or not this should be the case, the fact is that I can’t help but watch WWE’s product differently when I know I’ll be writing a column about it afterward. There’s added pressure, and I don’t want that feeling to be looming over me on Sunday. As such, I’m going into Wrestlemania planning on not writing a review of it. Maybe I'm using reverse psychology on myself and will decide to write a column. Maybe it’ll be so terribly bad or surprisingly good that I will have no choice but to voice my opinion. But for now, I’m leaning toward just doing my usual Raw Story next week.
• I didn’t realize the Raw go-home show actually meant going home… No Triple H, Undertaker, HBK or Jericho? WWE really mailed it in on Monday.

Now let the predictions begin…

This article appears in Mar 29 – Apr 4, 2012.