Rhino Left WWE To Help With Younger Talent

– Rhino recently talked with Wrestling INC about a variety of subjects. Highlights are below.

On Leaving WWE: “It was a great experience with WWE; they treated me great. I enjoyed wrestling with [Heath] Slater, tagging with Slater, traveling with Slater, he’s got kids. And you know, we talked about re-signing and they offered me more than double what I was making. Way more than double. I just didn’t want to – because there’s a lot of men and women there, my job is to try and help the younger talent out and try to discover guys like The Rock, the next Stone Cold, and all that. And I think I can service the wrestling business more on a level like Impact Wrestling and on the independent scene too. So it’s very important for guys that have been wrestling for so many years to help out the younger generation because the guys that came before me helped me out a lot.”

On The Origin Of His Name: Probably the English language, back when they discovered the animal the rhinoceros. I remember D’Lo Brown coming up to me at a show in Detroit, but I heard Reckless Youth, Edge & Christian were on the show, but I think Reckless was the first one to actually say it. Or something like that, so, I’ll give him credit. [Or], I came up with it. The spelling too; actually, the ‘R-H-Y-N-O’ came from Joe Legend. When I signed with WWE, they go, ‘We can’t use [Rhino]’, and they go, ‘Well, trademark’. I think they wanted to come up with a different name to make it their own. And I told Joe that and he goes, ‘Why don’t they just use a Y?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’ll pitch it.’ So after about five weeks, they go, ‘Yeah, your name is Rhyno with a Y, you’re starting tonight.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, cool.