Glenn Gilbertti Glenn Gilbertti ( November 12 , 1968 ) is an American professional wrestler , best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) as Disco Inferno . He is also a former road agent for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . Gilbertti was a mostly lower card wrestler during his six - year tenure with WCW , but achieved some success in the form of championships . He was a one - time Cruiserweight Champion , a two - time Television Champion and a one - time World Tag Team Champion with Alex Wright , as part of the tag team Boogie Knights . Professional wrestling career . Early career . Gilbertti started wrestling in 1991 wrestling his first match on November 20 , 1991 . He wrestled on the Georgia independent circuit , where he was best known for his time with Great Championship Wrestling ( GCW ) where he won several titles . He also had short stints with the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) and the United States Wrestling Association ( USWA ) in 1992 . World Championship Wrestling ( 1995 – 2001 ) . Gilbertti made his name in World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) as Disco Inferno . He annoyed the audience with his disco dancer character , which included dancing on the way to the ring and during his matches , the punchline being that fans would chant " Disco sucks ! " . Gilbertti signed a contract with WCW in 1995 and debuted later that same year . He gradually rose to mid - card status as a tweener , with his gimmick being that he would forget how to apply his finishing hold , a Standing figure four leglock . Often , he would bring a cheat sheet with a diagram on how to apply the hold to the ring . He mostly competed in WCW ' s mid - card division shows including Saturday Night , Main Event and WCW WorldWide . Inferno wrestled on many editions of Main Event before pay - per - view events against superstars such as Joey Maggs and Eddie Guerrero . He also competed on January 23 , 1996 edition of Clash of the Champions in a losing effort to Kevin Sullivan . Inferno made his pay - per - view debut at Slamboree 1996 : Lord of the Ring in a tag team contest where he teamed up with Alex Wright against Dick Slater and Earl Robert Eaton . Face push ( 1996 – 1997 ) . Inferno started making a push in the cruiserweight division by the mid - 1996 . He began a feud with Cruiserweight Champion Dean Malenko and unsuccessfully challenged him for the title at Bash at the Beach . At World War 3 1997 , he participated in the three ring , 60 man battle royal with the winner receiving a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship . Inferno was injured in early 1997 and he took some time off before returning in September . His injury was mentioned after Disco refused to lose to Jacquelyn because she was a woman . He then feuded with Alex Wright , who began dancing before his entrance to mock Disco . The two became arch - dancing - rivals . Disco was booked to win the World Television Championship from Wright on September 22 edition of Nitro . He lost to Jacqueline at Halloween Havoc . He engaged in a feud with Perry Saturn after losing the Television title to Saturn on November 3 edition of Nitro . Disco lost to Saturn in a rematch at World War 3 before finally regaining the title from Saturn in a rematch on December 8 edition of Nitro for his second Television title . Four weeks later , he dropped the title to Booker T . The Dancing Fools . After having two reigns as Television Champion , Disco once again became a job ber and a mid - carder in the cruiserweight division . He defeated La Parka at SuperBrawl VIII . He patched up things with former rival Alex Wright , thus turning into a villain in the process and the duo formed a tag team of dancers known as Dancing Fools . The team was used for comedy relief and often danced before their entrance . They were also joined by fellow dancer Tokyo Magnum . At Bash at the Beach , Inferno lost a match to Konnan . Inferno and Wright feuded with teams such as The Public Enemy ( Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock ) , and The British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart . nWo Wolfpac associate member . After not getting any success , Inferno and Wright split and began focusing on their singles careers again . Inferno started a feud with Juventud Guerrera and defeated him at Halloween Havoc to become the number one contender to the Cruiserweight Championship . He earned his title shot later that night against champion Billy Kidman but lost the match . At World War 3 , he participated in the three ring , 60 - man battle royal with the winner getting a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship at Starrcade 1998 , but the battle royal was won by Kevin Nash . Inferno became allied with , and eventually joined the nWo Wolfpac . Around that time , Disco feuded with the likes of Booker T , Konnan , Buff Bagwell , and Ernest Miller . The Mamalukes enforcer . Inferno won the Cruiserweight Championship from Psychosis on October 4 , 1999 edition of Nitro . He entered a program with Lash LeRoux and had a successful title defense against LeRoux at Halloween Havoc . He was joined by a new ally Tony Marinara . Inferno dropped the Cruiserweight title to Evan Karagias at Mayhem after Inferno accidentally attacked Marinara . Marinara joined The Mamalukes , while Disco was joined by LeRoux . At Starrcade , Disco and LeRoux lost to Mamalukes after Disco accidentally attacked LeRoux . Disco aligned with Mamalukes and became an enforcer for the duo . The Filthy Animals , heel incarnation . In spring 2000 , Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo " rebooted " WCW and the New Blood was formed . The Mamalukes became members of New Blood and Disco signed with The Mamalukes . He left the group , however , and joined the Filthy Animals , renaming himself Disqo ( a pun on R & B singer Sisqó , whose single " Thong Song " was a major hit at the time ) . The Filthy Animals feuded with Misfits in Action and Disqo unsuccessfully challenged Lieutenant Loco for the Cruiserweight Championship at The Great American Bash . At New Blood Rising , Disqo refereed a fatal four - way match for the World Tag Team Championship , which KroniK won . At Fall Brawl 2000 , Filthy Animals fought Natural Born Thrillers to a no contest in an elimination match . During the match , Disco turned on Konnan by hitting him with a Chart Buster and began feuding with both the Animals and the Thrillers . The Boogie Knights . Disco reunited with both former rival and tag team partner , Alex Wright as The Boogie Knights . At Halloween Havoc , they challenged for the World Tag Team Championship in a triangle match but ended up losing the match . [ 3 ] [ 39 ] They were scheduled to win the World Tag Team Championship at Millennium Final on November 16 , but Disqo was legitimately injured . General Rection substituted for Disqo and then won the tag titles for Disqo and Wright . [ 8 ] [ 40 ] They dropped the title afterward . Disqo remained with the company until it was purchased by World Wrestling Federation in April 2001 . World Wrestling All - Stars . In the late 1990s into the early 2000s , he also appeared on WCW Announcer Mark Madden ' s sports radio talk show on ESPN Radio 1250 in Pittsburgh as " Mr . Friday Afternoon " . Around this time he was also a commentator and wrestler ( still using the Disco Inferno name ) for World Wrestling All - Stars ( WWA ) . At Inception , he participated in a battle royal which was won by Buff Bagwell . It was a quarter - final match of the tournament for the vacant WWA World Heavyweight Championship . He was eliminated by the ' Fruits in Suits ' , Australian children ' s TV performers , in a WCW style joke story line . He later threw of the fruits off the top of the steel cage before the main event . During his time with the WWA Disco continued his humorous gimmick both in and out of the ring . Following the Inception PPV he toured the UK with the WWA . He faced Brian Christopher most nights on the tour , mostly ending in defeat . During these shows he introduced a new finishing move , the Village People ' s Elbow . This was a mock of the Rock ' s people ' s elbow and involved Disco wearing a hardhat and doing the YMCA dance before dropping the elbow . Also at these shows he joined Jeremy Borash on commentary in the second half of the shows , claiming that he was there as the crowd had not shown him respect earlier in the show . In 2002 Disco continued with the WWA , appearing at the Revolution pay - per - view in February . During this show he issued an open challenge for anyone to face him , as he had no opponent to face . He sat at ringside commentating in his usual style until he was beaten down by the returning Scott Steiner . The next PPV , Eruption , saw Disco commentating on the full event and not competing . He tried to intervene on a celebration dance off by Brian Christopher and Ernest Miller . Later in the year he toured further with the WWA in the UK in December . During this tour , which included the Retribution PPV , he mostly worked on commentary and ring announcing duties . He also credited as being the script writer / creative consultant for this tour . In 2003 , he returned to WWA under his " Disco Inferno " gimmick . On May 23 in a house show in Australia , Disco faced WWA World Heavyweight Champion Sting for the title but lost the match . He returned to commentary duties for the WWA final PPV , the Reckoning . In 2005 , he went back to working the independent circuit in Georgia and Minnesota . He also wrestled for the Southern Wrestling Alliance and Vince Russo ' s Ring of Glory . Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( 2003 – 2004 ) . Gilbertti then went on to join Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) , changing his alias to his real name . He was a member of Sports Entertainment Xtreme ( SEX ) and even became their leader near the end of that angle . On May 7 , 2003 pay - per - view , he won an Anarchy Battle Royal to become the number one contender to the NWA World Heavyweight Championship . The next month , he earned his title shot against the champion Jeff Jarrett but lost the match . After SEX disbanded , Gilberti formed the New York Connection ( NYC ) with Simon Diamond , David Young , Johnny Swinger and Trinity . On the November 26 pay - per - view , Gilbertti teamed up with Diamond and Swinger in a 6 - man tag team match to face 3Live Kru ( Konnan , Ron Killings and B . G . James ) for the vacant NWA World Tag Team Championship . When their stable fell apart , Gilberti began teaming with Young while Diamond and Swinger formed a separate team . In the late 2004 , Gilbertti reunited with Swinger and the duo teamed up together at Turning Point in a losing effort to Pat Kenney and Johnny B . Badd . Gilberti left TNA and returned to independent circuit . Return to TNA ( 2007 – 2008 ) . On October 18 , 2007 edition of Impact ! , Gilbertti appeared in a taped interview segment with Mike Tenay as Disco Inferno . He returned later in the show , losing in a squash match to Abyss . As of late 2007 , Gilbertti has been working for TNA as a road agent . He also writes columns and does audio features on Wrestlezone . com . On April 19 , 2008 Gilberti attended an Armageddon Convention in Wellington , New Zealand in which he won the Impact Pro Wrestling New Zealand Armageddon Cup . He also appeared at the Christchurch convention where he lost the cup on April 26 , 2008 . He also wrestled a tag team match on April 27 , 2008 at the same convention . His partner was IPW Champion " The Deal " Dal Knox . He also attended TNA ' s Lockdown fan interaction in Lowell , Massachusetts on April 12 , 2008 . Gilbertti was also a guest on the October 8 , 2008 edition of Spin Cycle , TNA ' s online - exclusive show . On November 2 , 2008 , Gilbertti was released from his contract with TNA , with them citing budgetary cuts as the reason .