Rob Feinstein
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Robert Feinstein 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
Extreme Championship Wrestling
Extreme Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992 by Tod Gordon and closed when his successor, Paul Heyman, declared bankruptcy in April 2001...

. Immediately following the closing of ECW, Feinstein founded the Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor ' is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded in 2002 by Rob Feinstein and Gabe Sapolsky. From 2004 to 2011, the promotion was under the ownership of Cary Silkin before being sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in May 2011...

 wrestling promotion.

RF Video

RF Video was started by Rob Feinstein, along with his friends Doug Gentry and Gabe Sapolsky
Gabe Sapolsky
Gabe Sapolsky is a wrestling personality, the current vice president of Dragon Gate USA and owner of Evolve, and the former booker for Ring of Honor and Full Impact Pro.-Early life:...

, in the early 1990s and began as an outlet for hand recorded "fan cam" videos of wrestling events from smaller companies
Independent circuit
In professional wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many independent promotions which are much smaller than major televised promotions. They are roughly analagous to a minor league for pro wrestling, or community or regional theatre.Specific promotions on the...

 throughout the United States. They would tour with Extreme Championship Wrestling
Extreme Championship Wrestling
Extreme Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992 by Tod Gordon and closed when his successor, Paul Heyman, declared bankruptcy in April 2001...

 (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
Blue World Order
The Blue World Order was a stable of professional wrestlers formed at Extreme Championship Wrestling's November to Remember 1996 event at the ECW Arena...

 as a parody of Syxx
Sean Waltman
Sean Michael Waltman is an American professional wrestler currently signed with WWE in their developmental program. He wrestled there under the ring names 1–2–3 Kid and X-Pac off and on from 1993–2002, World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Syxx, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ...

 of the NWO
New World Order (professional wrestling)
The New World Order was a professional wrestling stable that originally wrestled for World Championship Wrestling . The group later appeared in the World Wrestling Federation after the purchase of WCW by the WWF...

. 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
Pi
' is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter. is approximately equal to 3.14. Many formulae in mathematics, science, and engineering involve , which makes it one of the most important mathematical constants...

 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.).

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