EWE: RPW

RPW
RPW is formerly a wrestling company, that now works as a brand of EWE. It was first opened by James Buxton, under the name of Reel Promo Wrestling, on the 14th of March, 2011.

After a small run that proved unsuccessful due to poor ratings, it was later bought out by Chris Jericho during the 3 month try-out period of EWE in 2013, becoming EWE: RPW, and acting as it's own brand of talent. It remains with EWE today, under management of Tony Atlas.

Reel Promo Wrestling (2011)
James Buxton opened the company on the 14th of March, 2011, with it's first show being held on the very next day. The show opened with some promise, however received relatively poor ratings due to general lack of organisation, and creative choices which were generally seen as quite bizarre. These involve hiring the rather unfit and out of shape Kevin Nash and Razor Ramon and booking them as a top tag team, letting star Vance Archer, at the time under the ring name Bance the Sanity Breaker, seemingly murder backstage crew and other talent, and allowing a seemingly autistic child named JG wander into the ring every week demanding a match with top members of the roster.

After the ratings really started to drop, James Buxton took a long hiatus through 2011 in an attempt to re-invent the company, even enlisting the help of Tony Atlas. Atlas made a lot of changes, which most prominently included a name change to Rage Pro Wrestling. Ultimately however, despite being considered a slightly more improved product, the show just couldn't get its ratings back after a poor first run, and closed its doors by November 11th, 2011.

EWE: RPW (2013)
In 2013, during the three month tryout that Chris Jericho was given, he hired Tony Atlas to help with backstage management. Atlas however, still seeing promise in the old and now defunct company RPW, suggested a possible resurrection of it to Jericho, and how it could work within EWE as a third brand. Jericho agreed, and bought out RPW, having it become EWE: RPW, and giving it to Atlas. This run of RPW was immediately filled with colourful talent, including Rhino, Christian, Kevin Steen, Kung, and rather famously, Big Daddy V. Dean Navarro, prior contestant on EWE: GTFO, was brought in as assistant manager to Tony as well.

Whilst not receiving outstanding ratings at the time, this run of RPW was considered it's most successful, and is looked upon fondly by fans in an era that is otherwise generally panned. EWE: RPW has a relatively decent cult following amongst EWE fans who enjoyed it's daft and ridiculous approach, being aware of RPW's previous failures and being almost a parody of itself, whilst still keeping a serious enough attitude towards the talent and booking to keep people interested. Ultimately, the three month tryout proved unsuccessful, and RPW went down again with the rest of EWE.