Rob Biggins ended his negations with partner, president and general manager Pete Maguire for a buyout of Oklahoma Pro Wrestling (OPW) by resigning from the company and stealing the assets on November 14, 2000. He continued to operate as OPW, selling what was thought to be the company's assets to John Crow. A year later he usurped the same assets from John Crow's Oklahoma Championship Wrestling.
Biggins is the defendant in an upcoming civil trial with OPW and will be facing additional litigation for stealing John Crow's assets. Biggins continues to operate today, unscathed and with impunity. Biggins single handedly destroyed professional wrestling in Tulsa, turning it into a non-revenue producing backyard wrestling cult by surrounding himself with young, naive aspiring backyard wrestlers.
OPW is determined to bring Biggins to justice so that all can see the incontrovertible evidence of his dishonesty, fraud, and the despicable back stabbing skullduggery he performed on both of his unsuspecting partners.
The Deposition . . . . . with the beautiful leather bound bible Jenna Love gave him clutched firmly in his hands and a grim look of determination on his face ....... he spoke the truth ..... the whole truth ..... and nothing but the truth ..... so help me Backyard Bob!
Here is the truth according to the self-appointed, self-anointed greatest booker, professional wrestler and promoter of all time!
18 Are you currently employed?
19 A Yes.
20 Q Where?
21 A Tulsa Public Schools.
22 Q And what do you do for Tulsa Public
23 Schools?
24 A I'm a cafeteria manager.
15 Q Do you recall how many times you
16 wrestled for yourself the first half?
17 A I think I only wrestled eight or ten times
18 all year, and so probably at the most, four times
19 for myself.
20 Q And what name did you wrestle under,
21 sir?
22 A Rocco Valentino.
23 Q Do you own that name, sir?
24 A Could you be more specific?
25 Q That is not your legal name; is it, sir?
1 A No, ma'am.
2 Q That is a trade name; is that correct?
3 A I don't know what a trade name -- I'm not
4 trying to be difficult. I'm not sure what you mean
5 or what you're getting at.
6 Q Did you ever register with the Secretary
7 of State of Oklahoma to protect your rights to that
8 name?
9 A No.
10 Q Do you know if anyone else protected the
11 rights to that name?
12 A Yes.
13 Q And do you know who owns the rights to
14 that name?
15 A I don't think anyone owns the rights. I
16 know Pete Maguire filed for that but I had used
17 the name for years before that on documented --
18 Q Right, but you did not legally challenge
19 that filing; did you, sir?
20 A No.
21 Q When you say you wrestled last year eight
22 to ten times, do you know approximately what you
23 were paid each of those --
24 A Zero.
25 Q You were not paid --
A Wrestlers haven't been paid probably
2 since I would say late 1999 to 2000 generally.
3 Q Okay.
4 A It's not that kind of an income business
5 anymore.
6 Q When you had your own business, your
7 own company you said, which existed until June
8 or July of 2004; is that correct? I'm asking
9 because I don't want to misstate what you've told
10 me.
11 A I think that it was 2004.
12 Q All right. Did you pay yourself any
13 profits or any percentage of profits?
14 A There was -- I lost money.
15 Q Okay.
16 A It wasn't a money-making endeavor at
17 that point.
* Observations by Pete Maguire: For all of you professionals who weren't paid to wrestle for OPW in 1999 and 2000 .....please return the talent fees that you didn't receive.
Backyard Bob claims that professional wrestling is "not that kind of an income business anymore." Obviously he doesn't read Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer. Dozens of independent wrestling promotions across the country are packing in paying crowds ...... and paying the talent!
Backyard Bob's transition from silent partner to sole proprietor drove off the paying fans and the professional talent in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A narcissistic personality disorder filters out the facts.
OPW trademarked the name of Rocco Valentino. A letter and a copy of the certificate was sent to Backyard Bob requesting him to cease and desist using the name.
18 Q When did you first start wrestling?
19 A Professionally?
20 Q Well, define professionally for me, sir.
21 A It's a different style of wrestling,
22 predetermined outcomes.
23 Q Is it not for pay?
24 A Not always, no.
25 Q Okay.
1 A You could say -- my interpretation of
2 what professional wrestling is a style of
3 wrestling.
4 Q Okay.
5 A There's professional wrestlers that have
6 never been paid a dollar to wrestle.
* Observations by Pete Maguire: " There's professional wrestlers that have never been paid a dollar to wrestle." so saith Backyard Bob. Our talent was paid to wrestle. Fans in attendance paid OPW to see it. The definition of professional is:
a : participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs.
Once Backyard Bob no longer attracted paying customers and stopped paying the wrestlers, he regained his amateur status. With Jenna's leather bound bible clutched in his lap he redefined the entire professional wrestling industry to legitimize his failures.
Q You said you collected the money at the
17 gate or --
18 A At the door.
19 Q -- at the door, what happened with that
20 money? Was that not an asset of Oklahoma Pro
21 Wrestling?
22 A Not until I turned it into it, the promoter
23 is responsible for all of that. I am -- or I was,
24 I'm not no longer. I was the promoter of the
25 shows that were produced at that time period.
1 I'm responsible for that money. What I do with that
2 money is up to me after that.
3 Q But don't you get a license to be a
4 promoter from the State?
5 A Yes.
6 Q Didn't you share that license --
7 A No, absolutely not.
8 Q -- with Mr. Maguire?
9 A Absolutely not. You are not able to share
10 any license from the State of Oklahoma. It would
11 be like sharing a driver's license, you can't do it.
12 Q And did you turn in the revenue, sir, to
13 the State?
14 A That's what Pete was responsible for after
15 he had the money, put it in the checking account
16 and pay the various agency --
* Observations by Pete Maguire - The names of Pete Maguire and Robert Biggins are on the promoter license for 1997 and 1999. Oklahoma Pro Wrestling, Inc. is listed as the promoter for 1998 and 2000.
And so he went on ad-nausium, with false and self serving statements, all refuted with documentary evidence .
