Rob Feinstein - Biography

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.

Biography

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.

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.

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.

Perverted Justice Bust and other legal matters

In March of 2004, Feinstein was caught in an internet sting set up by Perverted Justice, designed to catch pedophiles who use internet chatrooms to lure potential victims. Feinstein thought that he was talking to a 14-year old boy, when in fact, the "boy" was a Perverted Justice decoy merely pretending to be one. Feinstein also told the decoy that he was 22 years old; but, he was actually 31 years old. Feinstein also claimed to be a wrestler for Pro Wrestling Guerilla, and asked the "boy" to meet him at a house later for sex. When Feinstein arrived at the house he was instead met by a news crew, working in tandem with Perverted Justice on the sting. When the news crew tried to confront Feinstein at his home and working office, Feinstein fled. A full transcript of the online conversation has since been published. He has also lost lawsuits to DreamStage Entertainment ($250,000) and to the composer of the Freebird's song ($150,000.).

External links

• HitTheRopes.com Interview