At WCW World War 3 on November 23, 1997, Lodi made his World Championship Wrestling debut. Lodi was introduced as a member of Raven's Flock as an injury replacement for Stevie Richards. He accompanied his fellow Flock members to ringside carrying a variety of signs, which he displayed to the audience at intervals. The signs were generally intended to be humorous and variously furthered storylines, antagonized the audience, promoted the Flock, and made inside jokes aimed at other wrestlers or groupies. Lodi made his in-ring debut on the December 8 episode of Nitro, losing to Chris Benoit. Lodi disappeared from WCW television several months later after suffering a fractured ankle in a match against Psicosis. Upon his return, Lodi would become involved in the feud between Saturn and Raven. Lodi defeated Saturn in a match on WCW Thunder thanks to Kanyon, which then meant Saturn had to be Lodi's personal assistant till Fall Brawl. After weeks of making a mockery of Saturn, The Flock disbanded at the September 13, 1998 Fall Brawl, when Perry Saturn defeated Raven to win the freedom of the Flock.
In June 1999, WCW enhancement talent Lenny Lane persuaded Lodi to team with him as The West Hollywood Blondes, a Californian duo with pink trunks and flamboyant haircuts who were later revealed to be brothers. After a hiatus, Lane and Lodi returned to television under the team name Standards and Practices with Miss Hancock as their manager. The gimmick ended when Lane and Lodi stripped off their suits on an edition of Nitro. In the following weeks, they competed under the tag name 2XS (an abbreviation of "too excess" that was later shortened to XS), as two hard rock partygoers, during which Lodi's ring name was changed to Idol and then to Rave. This was also short-lived as they failed to get over, and both were released from WCW in 2000.