Rob Feinstein

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Robert Feinstein (born on October 1, 1969) 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.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 RF Video 1.2 Performer 1.3 Promoter 1.4 Perverted-Justice incident 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] RF Video

RF Video was started by Rob Feinstein, along with his friends Doug Gentry and Gabe Sapolsky, 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 New World Order. 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] Promoter

Since then, Feinstein continues to work in the professional wrestling business, most recently, in late 2008, taking up the position as head booker at Velocity Pro Wrestling, only to quit the position weeks later without ever booking a show.

[edit] Perverted-Justice incident

In March 2004, Rob Feinstein was caught in an internet sting designed to catch sexual predators (set up by Perverted-Justice.com). Feinstein, who believed he was talking to a 14 year old boy, told the boy he was 22 years old (he was actually 31), claimed to be a wrestler with Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and eventually asked the boy if he could meet him at his home later, having implied in the chat that he was considering the boy's offer for sex.^[2] When Feinstein arrived at the home, he was met by a news crew. Although no formal charges were ever brought against him by police, the incident proved to be disastrous publicity for both Ring of Honor and Feinstein. It caused a temporary split with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, the cancellation of an upcoming show in Glen Burnie, Maryland^[3], and eventually resulted in Feinstein selling his share of Ring of Honor.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• HitTheRopes.com Interview