Glenn Gilbertti (born November 12, 1967) is an American
professional wrestler
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, best known for his appearances with
World Championship Wrestling
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(WCW) as Disco Inferno (briefly changed to Disqo) from 1995 to 2001.
During his six-year tenure with WCW, Gilbertti became a
one-time Cruiserweight Champion, a
two-time Television Champion and a
one-time Tag Team Champion with
Alex Wright
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. He is considered one of the more novel mid-card WCW wrestlers of the late 1990s.
After WCW, he worked for
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
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Founded by Jeff and Jerry Jarrett in 2002, the promot ...
and
World Wrestling All-Stars
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.
Professional wrestling career
Early career (1991–1995)
Gilbertti started wrestling in 1991 wrestling his first match on November 20, 1991.
He wrestled on the
Georgia
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independent circuit
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, where he was best known for his time with Great Championship Wrestling (GCW) where he won several titles. He also had a short stint with the
United States Wrestling Association
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(USWA) in 1993.
World Championship Wrestling (1995–2001)
Mid-card (1995–1996)
Gilbertti made his name in
World Championship Wrestling
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(WCW) as Disco Inferno, named after
The Trammps
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'
song
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and inspired by
John Travolta
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's character Tony Manero in ''
Saturday Night Fever
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''. Gilbertti credits
Raven
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for the birth of the "Disco Inferno" character. He annoyed the audience with his
disco
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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
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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 the WCW's shows ''
Saturday Night'', ''
Main Event
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'' and ''
WorldWide
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'' that mainly featured mid-card wrestlers .
Inferno wrestled on many editions of ''Main Event'' before pay-per-view events against superstars such as
Joey Maggs
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Profession ...
and
Eddie Guerrero
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. He also competed on January 23, 1996
Clash of the Champions XXXII 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
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contest where he teamed up with
Alex Wright
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against
Dick Slater
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and
Earl Robert Eaton.
Face push (1996–1997)
Disco started making a
push
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in the
cruiserweight division by the mid-1996. He began a feud with
Cruiserweight Champion Dean Malenko
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and unsuccessfully challenged him for the title at
Bash at the Beach. At
World War 3, 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
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to
Jacqueline
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because she was a woman.
Disco then
feuded with Alex Wright, who began dancing before his entrance to mock Disco. Disco was
booked to win the
WCW World Television Championship
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The title was created in 1974 by Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (MACW) as a s ...
from Wright on September 22 edition of ''
Monday Nitro
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''.
Disco lost to Jacqueline at
Halloween Havoc
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It was originally produced as an annual pay-per-view ...
. He engaged in a feud with
Perry Saturn
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after losing the Television title to Saturn on November 3 episode of ''Nitro''.
[ Disco lost to Saturn in a rematch at World War 3, before regaining the title from Saturn in a rematch on the December 8 episode of ''Nitro''.][ Four weeks later, he dropped the title to ]Booker T Booker T or Booker T. may refer to
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.[
]
Heel run (1998–2001)
The Dancing Fools
After having two reigns as Television Champion, Disco once again became an enhancement talent and a mid-carder in the cruiserweight division. He defeated La Parka
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at SuperBrawl VIII
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Storylines
The e ...
. He patched up things with former rival Alex Wright
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, thus turning
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into a villain
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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
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. Inferno and Wright feuded with teams such as The Public Enemy
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(Johnny Grunge
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and Rocco Rock
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), and The British Bulldog
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and Jim Neidhart
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.
nWo Wolfpac
After not getting any success, Inferno and Wright split and began focusing on their singles careers again. Inferno started a feud with Juventud Guerrera
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Guerrera is best known for his appearances with the Mexican professional wrestling promot ...
and defeated him at Halloween Havoc
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It was originally produced as an annual pay-per-view ...
to become the number one contender to the Cruiserweight Championship. He earned his title shot later that night against champion Billy Kidman
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As a wrestler, Kidman is best known for his work with World Champi ...
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
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, but the battle royal was won by Kevin Nash
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. Later at Starrcade, Disco along with Bam Bam Bigelow
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and Scott Hall
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assisted Nash in ending Goldberg Goldberg or Goldberger may refer to:
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's 173 match winning streak in the main event of Starrcade. Inferno became allied with, although he never joined the nWo Wolfpac
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The stable originated in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) with th ...
until after the reunion. Around that time, Disco feuded with the likes of Booker T, Konnan, Buff Bagwell
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and Ernest Miller
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.
Gilbertti later said that the nWo storyline and working with Hall was the highlight of his career.
The Mamalukes enforcer
Inferno won the Cruiserweight Championship from Psychosis
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on October 4, 1999 edition of ''Nitro''. He entered a program
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* Progra ...
with Lash LeRoux
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and had a successful title defense against LeRoux at Halloween Havoc
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. He was joined by a new ally Tony Marinara. Inferno dropped the Cruiserweight title to Evan Karagias
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Acting career
Evan moved to New York City to pursue an acting and modeling career. He also became the spokesmodel for the 1996 Calvin Klein and US Olympic Comm ...
at Mayhem after Inferno accidentally attacked Marinara. Marinara joined The Mamalukes
The Mamalukes were a professional wrestling tag team in World Championship Wrestling.
History
The Mamalukes were formed in late 1999 when Big Vito arrived in WCW and established a team with Johnny the Bull. They were managed by Tony Marinara. ...
, while Disco was joined by LeRoux. At Starrcade
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, Disco and LeRoux lost to Mamalukes after Disco accidentally attacked LeRoux. Disco aligned with Mamalukes and became an enforcer
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for the duo.
=The Filthy Animals and heel incarnation
=
In spring 2000, Eric Bischoff
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and Vince Russo
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He is notable for his tenures with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop ...
"rebooted
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" WCW and the New Blood was formed. Disco joined The Mamalukes
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History
The Mamalukes were formed in late 1999 when Big Vito arrived in WCW and established a team with Johnny the Bull. They were managed by Tony Marinara. ...
, then the Filthy Animals
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Concept
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, renaming himself Hip Hop Inferno and then Disqo (a pun on R&B singer Sisqó
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, whose single "Thong Song
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" 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
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. At New Blood Rising
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, Disqo refereed a fatal four-way match
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for the World Tag Team Championship, which KroniK
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won. At Fall Brawl 2000
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, Filthy Animals fought Natural Born Thrillers
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to a no contest in an elimination match
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. 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, both becoming face. At Halloween Havoc
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It was originally produced as an annual pay-per-view ...
, they challenged for the World Tag Team Championship
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in a triangle match but ended up losing the match. They were scheduled to win the World Tag Team Championship at Millennium Final
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on November 16, but Disco was legitimately injured. General Rection substituted for Disqo and then won the tag titles for Disqo and Wright. They dropped the title afterward. He ended up splitting from Wright and forming a brief partnership with Mike Sanders. Disco's last appearance with WCW came on the March 19, 2001 (second to last) edition of Nitro where he spoke about his new partnership with Sanders and lost a match to Jason Jett
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. WCW was purchased by World Wrestling Federation (WWF) later that week.
World Wrestling All-Stars (2002–2003)
In the late 1990s into the early 2000s, he also appeared on WCW Announcer Mark Madden
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'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
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(WWA). At Inception
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, 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
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. He was eliminated by the 'Fruits in Suits', Australian children's TV performers, in a WCW style joke story line. He later threw one 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 pay-per-view, he toured the UK with the WWA. He faced Brian Christopher
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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
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dance before dropping the elbow. Also at these shows he joined Jeremy Borash
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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
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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
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Steiner is perhaps best known for his time in World Championshi ...
. The next PPV, Eruption
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, 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
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.
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
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for the title but lost the match. He returned to commentary duties for the WWA final PPV, the Reckoning.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling/Impact Wrestling
Early years (2002–2004)
Gilbertti then went on to join Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
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Founded by Jeff and Jerry Jarrett in 2002, the promot ...
(TNA), changing his alias to his real name. His name was often spelled incorrectly using "Glen Gilberti" or "Glenn Gilberti". On the July 31, 2002, weekly TNA pay-per-view, Disco Inferno debuted his weekly talk segment entitled ''Jive Talkin[ ] after announcing that he would be hosting a talk show the previous week. The talk segment lasted three weeks ending on August 14, 2002 with the weekly guests being Goldy Locks
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, The Dupps
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, and "Dean Baldwin".[ ]
Gilbertti became 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
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. The next month, he earned his title shot against the champion Jeff Jarrett
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Beginning his career in his father J ...
but lost the match after Vince Russo
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He is notable for his tenures with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop ...
hit him with a baseball bat.
After SEX disbanded, Gilbertti managed the tag team
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Simon Diamond and Johnny Swinger prior to forming the New York Connection (NYC) which consisted of Vito
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, Simon Diamond
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, David Young, Johnny Swinger
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and Trinity
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. 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
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Killings worked for World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WW ...
and B.G. James) for the vacant NWA World Tag Team Championship
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. When their stable fell apart, Gilbertti began teaming with Young while Simon and Swinger formed a separate team. In late 2004, Gilbertti reunited with Swinger and the duo teamed up together at Turning Point
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in a losing effort to Pat Kenney (formerly Simon Diamond) and Johnny B. Badd. Gilbertti left TNA and returned to independent circuit.
Sporadic appearances (2007–present)
On October 18, 2007 edition of '' Impact!'', Gilbertti appeared in a taped interview segment with Mike Tenay
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as Disco Inferno. He returned later in the show, losing in a squash match
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to Abyss
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* ''The Abyss'' (1910 film), a Danish silent film starring Asta Nielsen
* ''The Abyss'' (1988 film) (''L'Œuvre au noir''), a French- ...
.
In late 2007, Gilbertti worked for TNA as a road agent and also contributed to the creative team with Vince Russo. He also attended TNA's Lockdown fan interaction in Lowell, Massachusetts
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on April 12, 2008 and later appeared as 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.
On the May 26, 2011 edition of ''Impact Wrestling'', Disco Inferno made an appearance on Mr. Anderson's Scorpion Sitdown interview segment, where he was asked by Anderson to bury Sting. He refused and got beat down by Anderson until Sting came to his aid.
Disco Inferno made a brief appearance on the December 15 edition of ''Impact Wrestling
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'' titled "Total Nonstop Deletion
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." Appearing "backstage," Inferno commented on his relief in not having to face Matt Hardy
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With his real life brother Jeff, Hardy gained notoriety in WWF's tag team d ...
's son King Maxel in his debut match after being pinned by him on another occasion.
Gilbertti appeared on the Thanksgiving 2018 episode of Impact Wrestling. Gilbertti had a plan to impress Scarlett Bordeaux
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. He participated in Eli Drake
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's 2nd annual "Gravy Train Turkey Trot", a 5-on-5 mixed tag team match where he teamed with Ohio Versus Everything
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member Jake Crist, Katarina), Desi Hit Squad
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member Rohit Raju, and their captain Eli Drake. They faced the team of Alisha Edwards, Dezmond Xavier
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, Kikutaro, KM ( Kevin Matthews and team captain Fallah Bahh
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. Gilbertti was pinned by Fallah Bahh after a Bonzai Drop. Since Gilbertti was pinned in the match, he was forced to wear the Turkey suit.
Gilbertti made his return on February 22, 2019 where he was shown backstage trying to find the management office. 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. A match is booked between the two. On March 15, Gilbertti beat Kikutaro as he prepared for Bordeaux. On the March 22 episode, Gilbertti was shown at a bar "preparing" for his match with Bordeaux. On March 29, Scarlett Bordeaux beat Gilbertti in an intergender match. Later in the night, he was shown backstage being made fun of by Alisha Edwards and Kiera Hogan for losing to Bordeaux.
Gilbertti returned on the May 17 episode and spoke negatively about women's wrestling. While serving as a guest commentator for a women's battle royal, Gilbertti entered the match and won by eliminating Tessa Blanchard. On the May 24 episode, Gilbertti held an "exhibition" with Ashley Vox. He was confronted by Blanchard after badmouthing women's wrestling. On May 31, Blanchard beat Gilbertti in an inter-gender match.
Gilbertti returned on February 25, 2020 and formed a partnership with Johnny Swinger after Willie Mack said he would no longer be a tag team with Swinger. The following week, Gilbertti and Swinger lost to the Deaners. On the March 10 episode, Gilbertti and Swinger lost to Mack and Ace Austin. Gilbertti quit the team with Swinger after the match.
Independent appearances (2005–present)
In 2005, Gilbertti went back to working the independent circuit in Georgia and Minnesota. He also wrestled for the Southern Wrestling Alliance and Vince Russo
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's Ring of Glory.
Since 2009 he has worked as a trainer for Future Stars of Wrestling in Las Vegas
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and sometimes appears on the company's independent shows.
He appeared at the WrestleCon
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Supershow during Wrestlemania 31
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weekend in San Jose, California. He defeated Mr. T.A.
Disco teamed with Eli Drake
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on March 11, 2018 at Future Stars of Wrestling in Las Vegas. The two lost to Raven
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and Tommy Dreamer
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.
Podcasts and other work
In 2014, Gilbertti began appearing as a guest on Major League Wrestling
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Radio's podcasts and in early 2015 briefly had his own podcast 'Hot News' alongside Mike Sanders on Vince Russo
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's now defunct Pyro and Ballyhoo website.
Gilbertti is currently one of the hosts of a podcast called ''Keepin it 100'' with Konnan
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. He has been with the show since it debuted on Podcast One in 2016. The show is currently on the MLW Radio Network. Gilbertti also appears weekly on Vince Russo
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's The Brand Network featured on two shows called Lions, Tigers, Bears and Dirt, and Time Out.
Gilberti announced on A recent episode of " Keepin it 100 " that he will be joining the " Thunder Down Under " Male Revue, when they return to Las Vegas. He did not specify if this was short term or something long term. He did , however state that he wanted to " bring more male eyes to the product".
Booking career and legacy
In June 2000, Gilbertti assisted in the booking of the WCW shows. During that time, the booking committee consisted of Gilbertti, Vince Russo
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He is notable for his tenures with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop ...
, Bill Banks, Ed Ferrara
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, and Terry Taylor
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. 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; another one would include a pre-recorded vignette showing an empty locker-room followed by a caption showing "Invisible Man: Coming Soon".
In Vince Russo's book ''Rope Opera'', Russo says when he was close to re-signing as head writer of the WWE creative team in mid-2002, he requested that Gilbertti be brought in with him; according to Russo, word got around about Gilbertti's booking to the point that Vince McMahon questioned Russo's decision about bringing in Gilbertti due to legitimate concerns about Gilbertti's ideas, and referenced the "martian invasion" angle to him. Russo ended up not signing with WWE later and Gilbertti was not signed as a result as well.
Gilbertti had a brief stint on the creative team in TNA in late 2007 to early 2008, when Russo brought him in. 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.
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.
On that same Guest Booker interview, Gilbertti elaborated on his philosophy on booking professional wrestling:
On April 8, 2014, ''WWE Countdown
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'' 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
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, Bill DeMott
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, and Scott Armstrong, did defend Gilbertti, stating that he fully embraced the gimmick and was successfully able to get it over with fans. Gilbertti was not interviewed for the show.
Personal life
In 2009, Gilbertti started working as a host at the Sapphire Gentlemen's Club
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Las Vegas
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, a strip club in Las Vegas.
Championships and accomplishments
*Great Championship Wrestling
**GCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
**GCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Johnny Swinger
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**GCW Television Championship (3 times)
**GCW United States Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
* Impact Pro Wrestling (New Zealand)
** Armageddon Cup (2008)
*Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation
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**MEWF Heavyweight Championship
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( 1 time)
*North Georgia Wrestling Association
**NGWA Tag Championship (1 time) – with Ashley Clark
*Okanagan All Pro Wrestling
**OAPW Championship (1 time)
*Palmetto Pride Championship Wrestling
**PPCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
*''Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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''
**Ranked No. 85 of the top 500 wrestlers in the PWI 500
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in 1999
** Ranked No. 374 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the "PWI Years" in 2003
*Swiss Wrestling Federation
**SWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
*Thrash Wrestling
**Thrash Wrestling Championship (2 times)
*World Championship Wrestling
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**WCW Cruiserweight Championship
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( 1 time)
**WCW World Tag Team Championship
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( 1 time) – with Alex Wright
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**WCW World Television Championship
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(2 times
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)
*''Wrestling Observer Newsletter
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''
** Best Gimmick (1995)
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