Glenn Gilbertti (born November 12, 1967) is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Disco Inferno (briefly changed to Disqo) from 1995 to 2001.
He would come out and dance to his entrance music called "Disco Fever" (wrote and sung by Jimmy Hart using female-like vocals similar to when he sang the harmonies on Shawn Michaels' "Sexy Boy" song).
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.
Disco was booked to win the WCW World Television Championship from Wright on September 22 edition of Monday Nitro.
[2][3][17][18] Four weeks later, he dropped the title to Booker T.[2][3][18] After having two reigns as Television Champion, Disco once again became an enhancement talent and a mid-carder in the cruiserweight division.
[21] 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.
[22] Inferno and Wright feuded with teams such as The Public Enemy (Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock),[23] and The British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart.
Inferno started a feud with Juventud Guerrera and defeated him at Halloween Havoc to become the number one contender to the Cruiserweight Championship.
Disco joined The Mamalukes, then the Filthy Animals,[3] renaming himself Hip Hop Inferno[citation needed] and then 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.
[3][37] At New Blood Rising, Disqo refereed a fatal four-way match for the World Tag Team Championship, which KroniK won.
[3][40] They were scheduled to win the World Tag Team Championship at Millennium Final on November 16, but Disco was legitimately injured.
After WCW was gone, he worked for World Wrestling All-Stars (WWA) as a commentator and wrestler (still using the Disco Inferno name).
On May 23 in a house show in Australia, Disco faced WWA World Heavyweight Champion Sting for the title but lost the match.
[2][47] 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.
[2][48] The next month, he earned his title shot against the champion Jeff Jarrett but lost the match after Vince Russo hit him with a baseball bat.
In late 2004, Gilbertti reunited with Swinger and the duo teamed up together at Turning Point in a losing effort to Pat Kenney (formerly Simon Diamond) and Johnny B.
On October 18, 2007, edition of Impact!, Gilbertti appeared in a taped interview segment with Mike Tenay as Disco Inferno.
[53] Disco Inferno made a brief appearance on the December 15 edition of Impact Wrestling titled "Total Nonstop Deletion."
Appearing "backstage," Inferno commented on his relief in not having to face Matt Hardy's son King Maxel in his debut match after being pinned by him on another occasion.
He participated in Eli Drake's 2nd annual "Gravy Train Turkey Trot", a 5-on-5 mixed tag team match where he teamed with Ohio Versus Everything member Jake Crist, Katarina), Desi Hit Squad member Rohit Raju, and their captain Eli Drake.
On the March 1 episode, Gilbertti showed up to start his new job with management role with Impact, while Tommy Dreamer told him to find the Anthem owl.
On the March 8 episode, while searching for Don Callis ringside to discuss his Impact management role, Gilbertti had a confrontation with Scarlett Bordeaux.
While serving as a guest commentator for a women's battle royal, Gilbertti entered the match and won by eliminating Tessa Blanchard.
[59] During that time, the booking committee consisted of Gilbertti, Vince Russo, Bill Banks, Ed Ferrara, and Terry Taylor.
[60] During booking sessions, Gilbertti would occasionally joke with the creative team about potential angles: one included doing a Martian invasion storyline where the story would start with antennas coming out of Mike Tenay's head;[61] another one would include a pre-recorded vignette showing an empty locker-room followed by a caption showing "Invisible Man: Coming Soon".
Post-WCW, during interviews and columns he had written, Gilbertti had been known to be very vocal about his preference of the entertainment aspect over the athletic component of professional wrestling.
[62][63] In September 2015, Kayfabe Commentaries, who produces DVDs of wrestler interviews, released "Guest Booker with Glenn Gilbertti" where Gilbertti talked about his wrestling philosophy as well as his joke ideas such as the martian invasion, the Invisible Man, and "Bill Ding: The Evil Architect"; when asked what his favorite story or character he booked, Gilbertti said the booking of Lance Storm in WCW where Storm was pushed week after week to the point where he held three titles at the same time.
"[64]On April 8, 2014, WWE Countdown ranked the Disco Inferno character portrayed by Gilbertti as the sixth most infamous gimmick in wrestling history.
Many of his peers from WCW—now working for WWE—such as William Regal, Bill DeMott, and Scott Armstrong, did defend Gilbertti, stating that he fully embraced the gimmick and was successfully able to get it over with fans.