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Former silent partner Rob Biggins ended negotiations with CEO Pete Maguire for the purchase and buy-out of Oklahoma Pro Wrestling, Inc. (OPW) by resigning from the corporation and embezzling the assets on November 14, 2000. Maguire and Biggins each owned 50 percent of the Oklahoma corporation.
Biggins continued to operate as a copycat OPW, selling the company's assets to professional wrestling promoter John Crow.
A year later, thousands of dollars in assets were usurped by Biggins from John Crow's Oklahoma Championship Wrestling promotion. Rob Biggins has left a wake of betrayed partners, angry wrestlers, exploited students, emptied checking accounts and missing assets during the past 10 years.
"With a large, beautiful leather bound bible given to him by female wrestler Jenna Love clutched firmly in his hands, and a grim look of determination and earnestness on his face, Biggins spoke the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me Backyard Bob! "
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18 Q 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 Schools?
23 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.
The years of 1999 and 2000 were the highest grossing in OPW's 4 year history grossing over $106,000 in 2000.
Biggins' faullty recollections are symptomatic of narcissistic personality disorder. Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer reports on dozens of independent wrestling promotions across the country packing in paying crowds and paying the talent!
Rocco Valentino is a registered trademark of OPW.
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.
Professional wrestling is part of the entertainment industry and a for profit business.
With no paying fans and no professional talent, Biggins attempts to redefine professional wrestling as a style of wrestling. This delusion is just another symptom of narcissistic personality disorder.
" There's professional wrestlers that have never been paid a dollar to wrestle." This statement is both grammatically and factually incorrect! A wrestler who is not paid, by definition, is not a professional. " Biggins is referring to his backyard wrestling promotion in which young boys and girls imitate professional wrestlers. No one pays to see it, and no one is paid to participate in it.
The definition of professional is: participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs.
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 --
The names of Pete Maguire and Robert Biggins are on the promoter license for 1997 and 1999 as shown here. The other two licenses not pictured list Oklahoma Pro Wrestling as the promoter.
Biggins' narcissistic personality disorder prevents grasping facts which do not feed his narcissistic delusions.
UPDATE: Rob Biggins Sued For Trademark Infringement - 6/20/08
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