Rhyno

Terrance Guido Gerin (born October 7, 1975) is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name Rhyno or Rhino.

He is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

During his career he has worked for several promotions, most notably Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and WWE.

Gerin started his career in the Canadian independent circuit as Rhino Richards.

Gerin was born on October 7, 1975, in Detroit, Michigan.

He is of Italian, Venetian descent.

Gerin trained as a wrestler at the Can-Am Wrestling School located in Windsor, Ontario under Scott D'Amore, with whom he later reunited in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

He began training on September 24, 1994, and had his first match on March 10, 1995.

Gerin made four appearances in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as enhancement talent under the ring name Terry Richards.

Richards lost to "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan on the August 5, 1995, edition of WCW Saturday Night.

WCW Television Champion The Renegade defeated Richards on the September 9 edition of WCW Pro.

Richards and Johnny Swinger lost to the Nasty Boys on the September 16 edition of WCW Saturday Night.

His final appearance was a loss to Road Warrior Hawk on the September 23, 1995, edition of WCW WorldWide.

In the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Gerin lost to Henry O. Godwinn on the November 6, 1995, episode of Monday Night Raw (wrestling under the name "Terry Richards").

He was part of the losing team in a six-man tag team match against The Truth Commission at the June 23, 1997 WWF Shotgun Saturday Night taping (aired June 28).

Gerin then adopted the ring name Rhino Richards and began wrestling in Canada, where he formed a stable known as "THUG Life" with Joe Legend, Zakk Wyld (Keith Assoun), Christian Cage, Bloody Bill Skullion, Brett Kimball, and Sexton Hardcastle (later named Edge).

In 1997, Gerin relocated to Hanover, Germany, where he began competing for the Catch Wrestling Association (CWA) under the ring name "Rhino Richards".

He wrestled a dark match at the June 29, 1998 WWF Shotgun Saturday Night taping, defeating Breyer Wellington.

On October 10, 1998, he teamed with XL Legend to win the vacant CWA World Tag Team Championship, defeating Rico de Cuba and August Smisl.

The titles were vacated in October 1998 when Gerin left the promotion after signing with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW).

He was signed by the American promotion ECW in 1999, where he shortened his name to Rhino.

Gerin debuted in ECW on February 19, 1999, at a live event as "Rhino Richards", teaming with Nova to defeat Full Blooded Italians (Tracy Smothers and Little Guido).

After working a few live events during his early months in the promotion, Gerin made his televised debut as a heel on the June 25 episode of Hardcore TV as "Rhino", a comically aggressive, psychotic, and unstable powerhouse wrestler who reveled in extremely violent wrestling and ferocious brutality.

He was introduced by Steve Corino and Jack Victory as Taz's opponent in a match, which Rhino quickly lost.

Rhino made his first pay-per-view appearance at Heat Wave, where he aided Corino and their new ally Yoshihiro Tajiri during their matches.

When ECW debuted on national television with a weekly show on TNN, the alliance of Rhino, Corino, Victory and Tajiri joined Cyrus to form a group called The Network.

Cyrus represented TNN and was viewed as criticizing the hardcore wrestling style of ECW.

Rhino's first match at a pay-per-view took place at Anarchy Rulz, where Rhino and Corino unsuccessfully challenged Tommy Dreamer and Raven for the World Tag Team Championship, but were defeated.

On the October 1 episode of ECW on TNN, Rhino received his first opportunity for the World Heavyweight Championship against Mike Awesome, which he failed to win.

In late 1999, Rhino began feuding with The Sandman, and at November to Remember he teamed with the Impact Players to defeat Dreamer, Raven, and Sandman.

On January 29, 2000, Rhino competed against Rob Van Dam for the World Television Championship.

RVD retained the title but fractured his ankle which forced him to vacate the title.

He remained with ECW until it closed in 2001, where he was the final World Heavyweight and World Television Champion.

He then joined the World Wrestling Federation (later renamed WWE) with several other ECW wrestlers and was involved in the Invasion angle, in which ECW and WCW alumni joined forces against WWF wrestlers.

He worked as Rhyno for WWE until 2005, when he signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and defeated Jeff Jarrett to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

He lost it two days later and remained with TNA until 2010.

In 2015, Rhyno returned to WWE.

He initially worked in NXT, its developmental territory, and was promoted to the main roster in December.

During his time on the SmackDown brand, he teamed with Heath Slater and won a tournament to become the inaugural SmackDown Tag Team Champions.

He left WWE again in 2019 and returned to TNA, now called Impact Wrestling.