page_title: Rhyno
section_title: Debut and NWA World Heavyweight Champion reign (2005)
hierarchical_section_title: Rhyno / Professional wrestling career / Total Nonstop Action Wrestling / Debut and NWA World Heavyweight Champion reign (2005)
caption_attribution_description: English: Rhino at a TNA Impact taping in Orlando Florida Photo by Rob Beukema
context_page_description: Terrance Guido Gerin is an American professional wrestler, actor and politician, better known by the ring names Rhyno and Rhino. He is currently signed to Impact Wrestling.
  Gerin started his career in the Canadian independent circuit as Rhino Richards. He was signed by the American promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling in 1999, where he shorted his name to Rhino. He would remain with ECW until the closure of the promotion in 2001, where he won the ECW World Heavyweight Championship and the ECW Television Championship, being the final champion of both titles. After ECW closed, he was signed by the World Wrestling Federation with several other ECW wrestlers and was involved in The Invasion storyline, where talent from ECW and WCW joined forces against WWF wrestlers. He worked as Rhyno for WWF until 2005, when he left the promotion. Then, he signed a contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he defeated Jeff Jarrett to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. However, he would lose the title two days after his title victory. During the following years, Rhino remained with TNA until his exit in 2010.
  In 2015, Gerin would make his return to WWE.
context_section_description: After time on the independent circuit, Gerin made his debut in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) on July 17, 2005 as Rhino, reverting to the ECW spelling of his wrestling name. He debuted by hitting then-NWA World Heavyweight Champion Raven with the Gore following a match with Abyss at No Surrender, thus debuting as both a villain and a member of Planet Jarrett.
  These events led to a match being scheduled between the team of Rhino and Jeff Jarrett and the team of Raven and the returning Sabu at Sacrifice on August 14. 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 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 pay-per-view went off the air. Rhino faced Raven at Unbreakable in a match which saw him accidentally Gore a shopping cart in homage to his Hardcore Championship bout with Raven at Backlash in the WWF. Despite interference from Jarrett, Raven retained his title after hitting Rhino with an Even Flow DDT.
  Rhino fought Jeff Hardy in the main event of the debut episode of Impact! on Spike TV on October 1. The match was declared a no-contest after both Abyss and Sabu interfered. At Bound for Glory, Rhino, Abyss, Sabu, and Hardy faced each other in a Monster's Ball match, which Rhino won after hitting a second 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 legitimate injury. Rhino went on to defeat Jarrett and win the title. Rhino lost the NWA World Title to Jeff Jarrett on a 2-hour prime time special episode of Impact! on November 3.
  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.
caption: Rhino competing for TNA in Orlando, Florida
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