----Brody Hawk has decided to shut down the Ercu, MS promotion Real Pro Wrestling. Saturday night's show had a low crowd of around 30 and it seem to be the last straw. Brody commented that he was "tired of losing money and spending all week on the phone lining up wrestlers that do not show up."
----XOW moved in April of this year from New Albany, MS to Ecru, MS running weekly shows up to the July 7, 2007 show. Hawk announced to the fans that night it would be the last XOW show in the building. This was after his high profile breakup with XOW promoter Tony Watts. Hawk told the fans that debuting on 8.04.07 would be Real Pro Wrestling. XOW had an average of 70 people in the building from April to end of July in Ecru, MS with their biggest crowd being the 7.07.07 benefit show that had over 100 people watching the Psycho/Pappy vs Neil Taylor/Izzy Rotten main event.
----RPW's debut was flawed before it started. The myspace account had stated that they were going to present a more adult oriented product with cussing and "wardrobe malfunctions should be encouraged, not discouraged." The promotion later back peddled a bit on that and tried to smooth things over saying it was just going to be different. The problem was - it was not different. RPW had it's biggest crowd for the debut with about 75 in the building and fans got to see the same show that XOW had been running in the building for months.
----After the 8.11.07 show which had less than 40 people in the building I wrote, "I wish the best for the crew, but the damage may not be able to be repaired. It might be time to pull up the tent and take it to another town." After that show Scott Porteau [Mike Jones] left RPW, which left Brody Hawk having to foot the full bill. Along with talent leaving, talent booked other places, bad press on the internet and Tony Watts' statement about their concession stand, all of it combined was too much for Hawk to handle.
----Best wishes to Brody & Cody Hawk and family on their future adventures in pro wrestling. Best wishes to the crew that stuck behind Brody during all of this.
