Terry Gerin
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Terry Gerin (born October 7, 1975 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring names Rhino and Rhyno. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
Career
Terry Gerin grew up in inner city Detroit. His father died when he was fourteen, and his mother often had to work up to three jobs to support their family.Gerin trained as a wrestler at the Can-Am Wrestling School in Windsor, Ontario, Canada under Doug Chevalier and Scott D'Amore. He debuted in 1994 on the Detroit independent circuit under the ring name Terry Richards. Gerin later adopted the ring name Rhino Richards and began wrestling in Canada, where he formed a stable known as "THUG Life" with Joe Legend, Christian Cage, Bloody Bill Skullion and Sexton Hardcastle.
Extreme Championship Wrestling
Gerin debuted in Extreme Championship Wrestling in 1999 as Rhino, quickly joining forces with Steve Corino and Jack Victory. Rhino and Corino challenged Tommy Dreamer and Raven for the ECW World Tag Team Championship at Anarchy Rulz 1999, but were defeated. In late 1999, Rhino began feuding with The Sandman, and at November To Remember 1999 he teamed with the Impact Players to defeat Dreamer, Raven and The Sandman.On March 12, 2000, Rhino lost to Super Crazy in the finals of a tournament for the ECW World Television Championship. He won the title on April 22, 2000, defeating Yoshihiro Tajiri. He lost the title to Kid Kash on August 26, 2000, but regained it less than a month later on September 9, 2000. His second title reign saw him defeat challengers such as New Jack, Rob Van Dam and Spike Dudley.
Throughout mid-2000, Rhino continued to feud with The Sandman, defeating him in title matches at Hardcore Heaven 2000 and Heatwave 2000. In the course of Rhino's match with The Sandman at Hardcore Heaven he delivered a piledriver to The Sandman's wife and valet, Lori. At Heatwave, Rhino attacked the couple before his match and attempted to force Lori's head into a toilet.
Rhino won the ECW World Heavyweight Championship on January 7, 2001 at Guilty As Charged, defeating The Sandman in a squash match immediately after The Sandman had won the title from Steve Corino in a three-way tables, ladders, chairs and canes match. Upon his victory, Rhino merged the ECW World Heavyweight Championship with the ECW World Television Championship, creating the ECW Unified World Heavyweight Championship. He defended the title until April 10, 2001, when ECW declared bankruptcy.
World Wrestling Federation
When ECW folded in 2001, Gerin joined the World Wrestling Federation, wrestling under the slightly different name Rhyno. He debuted on RAW on March 19, 2001 in the weeks leading up to WrestleMania X-Seven to help Edge and Christian win the Tag Team Titles from The Hardy Boyz (though they lost them later that night to The Dudley Boyz when Spike Dudley made his debut. During the TLC match he interfered again to help Christian climb the ladder and collect the belts.Several months later, Rhyno won the WCW United States Championship by defeating Tajiri after the WWF's purchase of WCW. He seriously injured his neck in late 2001, and had to undergo cervical fusion surgery that kept him out of action for slightly over a year.
The returning Rhyno, made his WrestleMania in-ring debut at WrestleMania XIX, teaming with Chris Benoit in a Three-Way with Team Angle and Los Guerreros. He was never utilized in a major pushed singles role, but did hold the WWE Hardcore Championship on three occasions. His most recent run was as part of a tag team with another former ECW star Tajiri, challenging and losing to then-WWE World Tag Team champions La Résistance.
Following an incident at a "Post-WrestleMania 21 party" at the Universal Sheraton in California, Rhyno was released by World Wrestling Entertainment. During the incident Rhyno damaged public property, shattering a large flowerpot vase in the foyer of the hotel during a heated argument with his wife (whom he was in the process of divorcing). WWE management brought Rhyno back to his hotel room, and Rhyno flew home from Los Angeles the following day, as opposed to staying for the RAW taping. Along with his friend Matt Hardy, Rhyno was released by WWE on April 11, 2005. After the incident, his wife took sole custody of their daughter.
Despite the incident and his WWE release, Rhyno appeared at the WWE-sanctioned ECW One Night Stand 2005 reunion show on June 12, 2005. He interrupted a promo by Rob Van Dam, pulling off the knee brace Van Dam wore and pounding on his injured knee. Rhyno set up for a gore but the house lights went off and when they came on, Sabu was in the ring. He lost to Sabu.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Rhino made his debut in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on July 17, 2005 (reverting to using an "i" in his name as he did in ECW, instead of the "y" spelling WWE had trademarked), by hitting then-NWA World Heavyweight Champion Raven with the Gore! following a match with Abyss, thus debuting as a member of Planet Jarrett. These events led to a match being scheduled between the team of Rhyno and Jarrett and the team of Raven and the returning Sabu at the Sacrifice pay-per-view on August 14, 2005.
During the Sacrifice preshow, Director of Authority Larry Zbyszko informed Jarrett, who had lobbied for a title shot for several weeks, that if he could pin Raven, he would receive a shot at the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at the September 11, 2005 Unbreakable. However, should Jarrett lose the match, he would be prohibited from receiving a world title shot for one year. Later that night, during the tag match, Jeff Hardy returned to TNA, attacking Jarrett and enabling Rhino to Gore! and pin Raven. An irate Jarrett, furious at having lost his shot at the title, watched as Zbyszko announced Rhino to be the new number one contender immediately after the PPV went off the air.
Rhino faced Raven at Unbreakable in a match which saw him accidentally Gore! a shopping cart in an homage to his WWF Hardcore Championship bout with Raven at WWF Backlash 2001. Despite interference from Jarrett, Raven retained his title after DDT'ing Rhino.
Rhino fought Jeff Hardy in the main event of the first episode of TNA iMPACT! on Spike TV on October 1, 2005. The match was declared a no-contest after both Abyss and Sabu interfered. At TNA Bound For Glory 2005 on October 23, Rhino, Abyss, Sabu and Hardy faced each other in a Monster's Ball match, which Rhino won after hitting a middle-rope Rhino Driver on Hardy. Later that night, Rhino won a 10-man Gauntlet match to determine who would face Jeff Jarrett for his NWA World Heavyweight Championship after Kevin Nash, Jarrett's scheduled opponent, was rushed to the hospital due to a legit injury. Rhino went on to defeat Jarrett and win the title. The climb from a heel in Monster's Ball to the NWA Champion in the course of three separate matches made Rhino turn face.
Rhino lost the NWA World Title to Jeff Jarrett at a 2-hour Primetime special edition of TNA iMPACT! on November 3, 2005.
Starting with the November 26 episode of iMPACT!, TNA started airing promos about Rhino's career and personal life in preparation for his title rematch at Turning Point. He lost the rematch after a guitar shot and interference from all of Team Canada.
Rhino then wrapped up a brutal feud with Abyss, who (due to his alignment with Planet Jarrett) halted Rhino's war on Team Canada. The feud saw Abyss Black Hole Slam Rhino on to several chairs, and Rhino smash Abyss through a steel wall with the Gore!. Their singles feud ended in spectacular fashion at Against All Odds when Rhino Gored! Abyss off of a fifteen foot ramp on to four tables.
In April 2006, Rhino became a member of Sting's four man team of "Warriors", joining A.J. Styles, and Ron "The Truth" Killings to fight Jeff Jarrett's "Army" in a Lethal Lockdown match at the Lockdown Pay Per View.
On June 9th at TNA Hardcore War, a house show at New Alhambra Arena in Philadelphia, Rhino wrestled and defeated Jeff Jarrett. Afterwards he publicly acknowledged that he had been offered a contract to come back to WWE and wrestle for the new ECW. However, Rhino signed a two year contract with TNA.
On July 11, 2006, TNA released a press statement hyping up Rhino's appearance on TNA iMPACT later that night, with Rhino making an open challenge against the WWE for their current incarnation of ECW. The shocking revelation was that he didn't like the direction of the new ECW and threatened to throw the "real" ECW World Heavyweight Championship into a trash basin and burn it. Rhino stated in the interview that the WWE threatened legal action if the belt was shown on television and so, the "title belt" was hidden inside of a burlap sack. He did say that WWE was full of crap because they were trying to make more profit by recreating the past and the fans of TNA agreed with him. He did, however, say that he will become NWA World Heavyweight Champion, so he can prove that Vince McMahon is a hypocrite. To further this statement he issued an open challenge, very similar to that of Kurt Angle's, by stating, "I don't care what company or promotion you work for, I'll beat you whether it be a 4 sided, 6 sided or 8 sided ring any time any where because only 3 words describe what'll happen GORE! GORE! GORE!."
Wrestling facts
- Finishing and signature moves
- *Gore! (Spear)
- *Rhino Driver (Jumping piledriver)
- *Super Rhino Driver (Second rope jumping piledriver)
- *Death Valley driver
- *Powerbomb
- *Side belly to belly suplex
- *Spinebuster
- *TKO
- Managers
- Nicknames
Championships and accomplishments
- *1-time BCW Unified Television Champion
- Catch Wrestling Association
- European Wrestling Promotion
- Pro Wrestling WorldWide
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