The Pro Wrestling Legacy of Rocco Valentino 
His lack of humility is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
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Woody AllenUS movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )
A relection on the career of Rocco Valentino . . .
OZMANDIAS
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.
...... Percy Bysshe Shelley ..... 1818

Also known as The Italian Scallion, ROCCO VALENTINO is a registered name and trademarked character owned by Oklahoma Pro Wrestling, Inc. Rob Biggins was featured in the role and a silent partner and shareholder until his resignation from the company in November of 2000. He has been notified and instructed to cease and desist using the name.
This and other matters of larceny, embezzlement and fraud are some of the charges of our pending lawsuit Oklahoma Pro Wrestling, Inc. (plaintiff) vs. Robert L. Biggins, II (defendant.) The case number for the Tulsa County civil court docket is CS-2003-1623. A second lawsuit CJ-2008-04358 was filed against the defendant on June 20, 2008 for trademark infringment.
ROCCO VALENTINO is registered and trademarked as "a professional wresting name and character portrayed as a short, swarthy Italian American from Little Italy, New York who wears yellow wrestling attire."
If you are interested in playing the character of Rocco Valentino, email a photograph and brief description as to why and how you would accomplish making everyone despise you. Your submission may be posted on our special Rocco Wannabees page! OPW reserves the right to put to the decision to a vote by the fans and the OPW family of talent through a polling campaign.
OZYMANDIAS
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
...... Percy Bysshe Shelley ..... 1818
Note: Shelley's poem is based on one of the greatest narcissists and forgotten pharoahs of all time, Ahkenaten.
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