Rob Feinstein
Robert Feinstein (born on October 1, 1972) is the owner and operator of RF Video (a professional wrestling video tape and DVD distribution company), who were best known as the videographers of Extreme Championship Wrestling. Immediately following the closing of ECW, Feinstein founded the Ring of Honor wrestling promotion.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] RF Video
RF Video was started by Rob Feinstein, along with his friends Doug Gentry and in the early 1990s and began as an outlet for hand recorded "fan cam" videos of wrestling events from smaller companies throughout the United States. They would tour with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), setting up their own booth at events to sell their videos and other memorabilia and give out "updates" listing other pieces for sale through their mail order business. Eventually RF Video became large enough to open full time kiosks in shopping malls stocked with some of the more popular videos and the option to order from the catalog through the kiosk instead of mail, phone or internet. Eventually all the kiosks were shut down.
[edit] Performer
While touring with ECW, Rob began appearing on ECW TV with the Blue World Order as a parody of Syxx of the NWO. As part of the parody he carried a hand held camcorder everywhere (as Syxx had begun doing) and began calling himself by different "number" names, first going with several variations of pi before settling on 7-Eleven.[1]
[edit] ROH and pedophile scandal
Two years after co-founding Ring of Honor. Feinstein was caught try to solicit sex from a 14 year old boy. The story of was carried on NBC10 WCAU in Philadelphia. Shortly after the broadcast, RF video closed and Ring of Honor disassociated itself from Feinstein. [2]
