| Dancing Fools | |
|---|---|
| Tag team | |
| Members | Disco Inferno/Disqo Alex Wright Tokyo Magnum (associated member) |
| Name(s) | Dancing Fools Boogie Knights Dancing Idiots |
| Billed heights | Disco/Disqo: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Wright: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Combined billed weight | 452 lb (205 kg; 32.3 st) |
| Debut | 1998 |
| Disbanded | 2001 |
TheDancing Fools were aprofessional wrestling tag team inWorld Championship Wrestling (WCW) composed ofDisco Inferno andAlex Wright. They were also called theDancing Idiots andBoogie Knights when the pair reunited later on.
Disco Inferno andAlex Wright were two wrestlers inWorld Championship Wrestling that liked to dance before and after (and sometimes during) their matches. They were feuding with each other in 1998 and decided to form a tag team called "The Dancing Fools".Tokyo Magnum, aJapanese wrestler new to WCW, wanted to join the Fools and would appear dancing behind them (without their knowledge) during their entrance. AtRoad Wild, theangle came to a head when his interference on behalf of The Dancing Fools backfired in atag team match between The Fools andThe Public Enemy. Two nights later on the August 10 edition ofNitro, Magnum was told by Wright and Disco that if he wanted to be a member, he needed to impress them in a match againstEddy Guererro. He lost the match in under two minutes and he later left WCW. Both Wright and Disco then mainly feuded withThe Public Enemy, but usually found themselves on the receiving end of various maneuvers involvingtables. They split up in the fall to wrestle individually in thecruiserweight division. Because the team consisted of a German (Wright), a Japanese man (Tokyo Magnum), and an Italian-American (Disco Inferno), popular WCW fan site DDTDigest.com referred to the team as the "Dancin'Axis powers".[1]
Disco and Wright reunited in 2000 as the "Boogie Knights". However, the reunion was short-lived due to Disco suffering a shoulder injury during a feud withThe Natural Born Thrillers. To substitute for Disco, Wright pickedGeneral Rection as his temporary tag team partner and they both would go on to win theWorld Tag Team Championship (although Rection's reign with the title was credited to Disco) during a tour in Wright's home country ofGermany. Wright then choseElix Skipper as another substitute for Disco in a title defense on the November 20 edition ofNitro, but Wright and Skipper lost the titles to thePerfect Event. The team then separated as both wanted to attempt singles careers once again.