Rob's a pariah in the rasslin' world. He ran his federation (XPW) like shit, and when a group of thug's broke into The Messiah's apartment and cut off one of his thumbs, it is largely believed, but not proven, mind you, that Rob black hired the thugs because he was mad that The Messiah fucked Lizzy.


"On August 1,2002 two attackers entered the Messiah's apartment and what happened would be a brutal attack. They knocked at his door and he thought they were friends of his roommate and let them enter. He was playing video games at the time and saw them arguing in a reflection on his TV. They then locked Messiah's door and when he confronted them they began their assault. They struggled with the Messiah and took him to the floor. One of them had him in a chokehold and the other grabbed a pair of gardening shears which would be used to cut his thumb off. He fought them off and made his way to the door. They managed to stop him and one of them attempted to cut Messiah's penis off. They finally left and the assailants actually took his thumb with them! Speculation was that they took his thumb as a sort of sick souvenir to get proof for a paid hit. The attack received major mainstream media coverage and was featured as a story on the Sept 21, 2002 edition of America's Most Wanted. The focus of the segment seemed to point the finger at XPW promoter Rob Black (Rob Zicari) who may have ordered this attack as some sort of revenge for the alleged relationship of the Messiah with Rob Black's wife. Coincidentally just days before the attack The Messiah during an indy booking in California received non stop crowd chants of "You f**ked Lizzy" to which he was responded to the unrelenting crowd "And she loved it!". Another strange occurence was that the office of Rob Black's company Extreme Associates was closed during business hours on the same day that America's Most Wanted had come to interview him for the story."