After Meanie left the company, Bucci changed his gimmick, becoming Super Nova, and adopting a more serious personality. He would start wearing wrestling attires based in the suits of comic book characters like The Flash, Green Lantern and Venom. He formed a tag team with Chris Chetti, as well as a briefer one with Kid Kash. In August 2000 at Midtown Massacre, Chetti turned on Nova, beginning a heated rivalry between the two men, with Nova beating his former partner in a match where the loser was fired at November to Remember.