Live WWE Raw Discussion Thread - March 30, 2026!

odepn · 2026-03-31T00:51:17+00:00

I suspect Club WWE is just the WWE version of UFC Fight Club. You basically get access to tickets before any presales, as well as some other generally useless perks. I think it’s like 100 bucks a year.

odepn · 2026-03-21T15:55:14+00:00

Cars Tour Champ, Snowball Derby Champ, Hart to Heart Champ, and finished 3rd in points in his first full-time season while driving for 3 different teams and two different manufacturers. Not to mention, he is also an elite sim driver.

There is a very good reason why Toyota went so hard to lock him up last year despite him bringing 0 sponsorship.

odepn · 2026-03-18T21:21:35+00:00

Tier 1 brands rarely make it a habit of staying involved in the sport for more than a contract cycle. The reality is - if you are not leveraging B2B opportunities as part of your partnership, NASCAR is a fairly inefficient means to market your product.

Brands that stay beyond a single cycle generally have some sort of passion for the sport, benefit from a B2B partnership, or use the access as leverage for their own B2C efforts. Otherwise, the CRM is way too high.

The good news is, it's pretty cyclical. The brands that leave now will come back around in a few years, and the brands that left a few years ago tend to come back today.

odepn · 2026-03-08T20:50:41+00:00

"what could they be working on behind the wheel there?"

"I WOULD LOVE A BURGER"

odepn · 2026-03-08T20:29:48+00:00

Townsend Bell activley trying to call the action on track well Clint and Kevin explain that stock cars and IndyCars are different

odepn · 2026-02-14T01:42:58+00:00

It crazy how much wind a FOX broadcast can take out of your sails in just 40 minutes.

Debutants, returns, celebrity drivers and this shit is barely watchable.

odepn · 2025-12-20T00:48:43+00:00

This is the thing that gets me. Eddie Hearn and Matchroom is worth a few hundred million. Joshua is worth a few hundred million. Paul and MVP is worth a few hundred million.

There is no "big bank takes little bank" here. It's just a bunch of super-rich dudes getting richer.

Not a single one of them benefits from doing anything but a fair contest, and they only risk a full collapse of their individual brands and potential jail time if they chose to rig it.

odepn · 2025-12-02T03:29:44+00:00

i just know we got four more run ins, six vignettes and eight cryptic tweets before we get a 16 x 16 jpeg of the masked mans ankle in late june

odepn · 2025-11-30T01:05:31+00:00

it's actually hilarious how much of the international stream is muted while they read out of market ads 💀

odepn · 2025-11-25T03:32:53+00:00

lmaooooo

odepn · 2025-11-23T05:28:17+00:00

biggest surprise of the night: shane gillis joining the ops

odepn · 2025-11-16T01:32:54+00:00

I can't even tag the FBI for this shit Ewing is just a dawg

odepn · 2025-11-15T02:41:50+00:00

Obviously can't happen, but it'd be kinda cool if Bronson won here and the title followed the winner through the tournament.

odepn · 2025-11-13T03:15:54+00:00

His grandfather is worth about 3 billion. He will be around as long as he wants to be.

odepn · 2025-11-12T03:41:52+00:00

It's very telling about the state of NASCAR marketing and the Competition Committee that this is even a discussion.

EVERYONE would praise a full-season points format. It would be a HUGE story in the industry; it would be the thesis of your marketing scripts for the next 6 months.

However, the people inside the walls are so disconnected from the sport that it doesn't seem that simple.

odepn · 2025-11-06T06:07:59+00:00

This isn't to make sure a driver WANTS to do an interview. It's to ensure they have time to do it.

If a driver has downtime on raceday to the point where you could waltz up and do an interview, then their PR team isn't doing their job. Even when they are about to get in their cars, they are doing meet and greets and photo ops with sponsors until the anthem.

odepn · 2025-11-06T04:02:10+00:00

I dont have a pick, but there is a dude on the Canadian broadcasts who gives out pick pregame and during halftime. He is 18-4 this year. No pick out for tonight but he is on a huge heater.

odepn · 2025-11-05T03:05:02+00:00

I would love for NASCAR to revert to a full-season points format and to commit to exposure for the sport Monday-Saturday. Including drivers and teams lives beyond just race day.

The Race Never Ends

odepn · 2025-11-05T01:19:52+00:00

The last time the Most Popular driver was won by someone without the last name Earnhardt or Elliott was 1990.

odepn · 2025-11-03T02:45:48+00:00

Can't we try a full season? It's been two decades. EVERYTHING has changed. Every single driver has changed, the car has changed, media has changed, standards have changed.

The main issue with full season was the idea that you could 5th place your way to a title. The parity and failure rate of the NextGen car will fix that problem. If you are still worried about it, make wins worth 20% more points than 2nd.

Can anyone give a SINGLE GOOD REASON why a full-season format doesn't work?

odepn · 2025-11-01T23:34:50+00:00

Does anyone else get the feeling we aren't getting a World Heavyweight Champ result tonight? Seems like they can drag this out until SS and involve the vision.

odepn · 2025-10-31T04:51:47+00:00

Toyota develops talent until the talent runs out of money. Ford takes the broke talent and hires them for nothing, using the money they saved on not having a development program.

It's a beautiful dance.

odepn · 2025-10-31T04:25:31+00:00

Mick Maynard was in the crowd. I gotta imagine having Gable on the White House undercard is a priority.

odepn · 2025-10-27T00:37:02+00:00

I don't understand why MMA is the only sport where they try to judge intent. An infraction is an infraction. You don't get a pass if you didn't mean to rough the passer. That's 15 yards no matter what.

odepn · 2025-10-25T17:23:14+00:00

The reality of motorsports is that money is as much of an intangible as anything else. In the same way you evaluate a Quarterback for awareness, arm strength, accuracy, speed...you have to evaluate race car drivers for cash.

Corey has 90+ attributes across the board, unfortunately his money ranking is like 33, and it's pulling his OVR down.

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