Netflix and Piledrivers?
Monday nights. For those of us lucky enough to grow up in the Memphis wrestling territory, Monday Nights have been synonymous with wrestling. As an 11 year old, my first discovery of wrestling was Memphis, but it quickly moved to include Prime Time Wrestling with Bobby the Brain Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon on Monday Nights. In the early 90s, those two worlds collided when Jerry the King Lawler joined the Prime Time panel before eventually becoming the voice of RAW with Jim Ross when WWF changed the Monday night format. The next big Monday night wrestling change happened when WCW started airing Nitro live and triggered the “Monday Night War” that provided many hours of channel changing for fans. Since Nitro started, WCW has closed. TNA briefly attempted challenging RAW on Mondays but it’s worth no more than a passing mention. Wrestling is cyclical. The business is definitely in an upswing, and this week’s Monday Night RAW debut on Netflix proved that . Uncle Trips booked an episode...