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Former WWE & ECW superstar Rhino joined Inside The Ropes recently to hype the Extreme Rising event and discussed his start in the WWE, issues with Vince McMahon during a live event and much more.

Highlights of the interview are below:

On his decision to join WWE back in 2001: “Edge, Christian and I were all buddies and I think they’d (the office) said something like they wanted me to be their brother and Edge was like, no, you know people know him as Rhino, they know we’re buddies, so just tag him along with us, use him as our muscle. I remember the first live promo I did and I just s*** the bed, I was so nervous. I didn’t know what they wanted me to say but you know I then went on and wrestled on the road for a little bit in dark matches and stuff. I wrestled Steve Lombardi and he was actually the one that gave me The Gore as a finish. I used to use it in ECW as a cut off and use the piledriver for the finish, but I used to be really creative, goring people through tables and s*** like that. So then I’m working with Lombardi (Brooklyn Brawler) on the house show loop and I hit him with the gore and then I’d pick him up and do a TKO. So the second night he said, just hit me with the gore and pin me on that. You pick me up for the TKO and it doesn’t get a reaction. I remember thinking maybe he just didn’t want to take it, but he was right. The gore would get a bigger reaction when I’d set up for it in the corner and you know, the rest is history.”

On issues with Vince McMahon at a WWE Live event in 2003 that saw Vince come out and interrupt his match with Tajiri: “Before the show, he was on the house show loop, so before the match he said something like, you can’t do anything wrong in the match, just call it out there, blah, blah, blah. So Nassau Coliseum is a tough building and we’re out there and Tajiri won’t call s*** and you hard what the boss said, so we went out there and before it, one of the agents told us if they chant boring, don’t do anything and just sit in the hold. So ypu’re getting mixed instructions, but I’ve worked with Tajiri like 1,000 times. So we’re in the hold, they chant boring and Vince comes out telling us to go home and I’m thinking, he’s trying to kick us out of the ring thinking let’s see what they do if I throw a monkey wrench into their match. I thought he was just working, so I’m like, what are you going to do? fire me? So he tells Brian Hebner to tell Tajiri to dropkick me and go to the back and I’m like, oh s*** he’s serious. So we go to the back, I go to take a shower and then I go to talk to Vince, I think he actually felt bad. He said, the fans were chanting boring and you had him in a hold. I said to him that I was told by one of your agents that if they chant boring, then sit in the hold, so yeah, that was it. I actually got a very good payoff for that match. That’s why I think he felt bad about it.”

Rhino also talks about his first night in ECW, Extreme Rising, his plans for the future and much more. To hear the full interview visit this link.