I remember watching his match with Dean Malenko at Bash at the Beach 96 and almost winning the cruiserweight title. I was marking out huge for him by the end.
incidentally, he is on Konnan's podcast this week too. Mlw.com
Listened to this today, they had me rolling talking about Buff being a gigolo
"So they're mostly young guys on the show, they dress cool, you know? So Buff, being Buff, of course shows up as he always does, you know, tight jeans and shirt that's really small. So the other dudes are like "dog, that's not gonna get over."
Konnan's commentary on that was hilarious to me. Disco has a good mind for the business too, what he was saying about smarks and kids being the only audience and how it's very hard to just be a "regular fan" if they exist at all today was on point.
Disco was very over in 98, I saw him as a jobber and joke when I first started watching WCW in 97 but by mid 98 I was a fan, and this is as a kid who thought it was real.