Vinnie Ferrari

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Kevin Olmstead


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Ring name(s)	Vinnie Ferrari Backyard Superstar "Millionaire" Kevin Olmstead
Billed height	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Billed weight	250 lb (113 kg)
Born	July 23, 1971 Elmira, New York
Trained by	"Ironheart" Todd Costner H.C. Loc Big Poppa Chill Hellcat
Debut	1999

Kevin Olmstead is an independent professional wrestler and manager known as Vinnie Ferrari

A former radio personality in the Elmira-Corning, New York, market, he became a ring announcer for the United States Wrestling Federation after his station booked the USWF for a 1996 radio promotion.

He discovered in the course of the promotion that friends H.C. Loc and Big Poppa Chill were training to be wrestlers. He also had conversations during that time with Tony Atlas, Nikolai Volkoff, Bill Eadie and Bam Bam Bigelow after which he decided to go into training.

The USWF training facility had multiple trainers and locations while Ferrari was in training. He picked up instruction wherever he could, often before USWF events from Loc, Chill and any other workers who were willing to offer instruction.

As a ring announcer, or occasionally as a manager, Ferrari often was caught up in the action when it spilled out of the ring, but the USWF never hired him expressly as a wrestler. He was booked for the first time as a wrestler in 1999, when he lost to Big Poppa Chill in Cheektowaga, New York.

He later wrestled for several independent promotions in the Eastern United States -- primarily Upstate New York and Pennsylvania before "retiring" in 2001. Even in "retirement," Ferrari worked occasionally as a ring announcer.

On December 6, 2004, after the hoopla of the 2004 presidential campaign had subsided, Ferrari announced his intention to run for president of the United States in 2008. His candidacy has been the subject of occasional news reports worldwide. [1] [2][3]

Four days after announcing for president, Ferrari returned to the ring, managing former WWF wrestler Don Adams in the Tamaqua, Pennsylvania-based Elite Generation Wrestling. Within a month, he managed Big Poppa Chill to the EGW Heavyweight Championship.

Chill lost the title to Slambo the Clown a couple of months later. On June 10, 2005, Ferrari nearly defeated Slambo to win the title himself in his first match since 2001. However, he gave the clown too much time to recover from the landslide neckbreaker and Slambo retained the title.

In October 2005, Ferrari managed Rockin' Rebel to the title, though Rebel quickly lost it to "Dynamic" Dennis Diamond.

Since then, he has managed the Redneck Mafia and Team Darkness to EGW tag-team titles.

As of 2006, Ferrari works mainly for EGW as the manager of the Ferrari Administration and occasional wrestler.