Vinnie Ferrari
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| Kevin Olmstead | |
|---|---|
| Image:Vinnieferrari.jpg | |
| Statistics | |
| 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 |
| Billed from | Daytona Beach, Florida Washington, D.C. |
| Trained by | "Ironheart" Todd Costner
H.C. Loc Big Poppa Chill Hellcat |
| Debut | 1999 |
| Retired | 2007? |
Kevin Olmstead was an independent professional wrestler and manager known as Vinnie Ferrari. He also was a candidate for president of the United States. 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. In 2006, Ferrari worked mainly for EGW as the manager of the Ferrari Administration and occasional wrestler.
As of December 2007, his former Web site, vinnie4prez.com is no longer active and he does not appear to have worked recently in the independent wrestling circuit.
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[edit] Ferrari Administration members
- I.B. Green
- "The Virginia Beach Brawler" Braydon Shokker
- Big Poppa Chill *Jebediah Gambino
Past members
- "The Extreme Redneck" Don Adams
- Rikki Lane
- Joey Image
- Matt Skillz
- Joey Hex
- Rockin' Rebel
- Salvation 2K6
- K'Ras Van Tasel
- Porter
[edit] Finishing and signature moves
- Landslide (inverted Neckbreaker)
- Amateur-style Arm_drag
- Pancake (amateur-style cross-face takedown)
- Cross-leg STF
- Stump_puller
- Spin Doctor (titty twister cut-off move)
- Choke with signature star-spangled tie
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
- Elite Generation Wrestling
- 2-time manager of EGW Heavyweight Champion
- 1-time challenger for EGW Heavyweight Championship
- 2-time manager of EGW Tag-Team Champions
