Former ECW Champion Shane Douglas told Brian Fritz of Fanhouse.com that he will only work the TNA Hardcore Justice pay-per-view show if he gets to work against Ric Flair. "That's my one and only demand of TNA: give me Ric Flair and I would think that Dixie Carter, after paying a 61-year-old piece of garbage a half million dollars a year in the financial shape that they're in, that she would order this piece of garbage into the match but apparently not.

"Apparently she must be buddies with him. I haven't seen that Ric Flair has been anything positive for TNA that would warrant her taking any preferential treatment for Dic Flair, any more than anyone else. Ric has made these statements -- back them up. If not, shut up. It's one or the other...

"I've had differences with him but he's the icon of our sport and so forth. But if he wants to make statements about me, I would suggest you start backing them up or stop saying them because I would say he has a better chance of fighting his wife or one of the prostitutes that rolled him for his Rolexes than he has of getting in the ring and making a statement with me."

Douglas also fired shots at TNA president Dixie Carter. "What connection does TNA, do the Carter's, do any of the talent in TNA -- no disrespect to any of them, they're all great talent -- but what do any of them have to do with ECW?" Douglas asked. "The answer is nothing. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Zippo. There's no connection whatsoever so this is either a grab – a desperate grab – for a rating on a pay-per-view buyrate for a company that does traditional six to eight thousand buys, paltry by any measurement, even by the old ECW measurement.

"And the person who heads TNA told me one time 'well, we don't want to copy ECW, after all they failed'. And now, here were are five years later and that person is now trying to conduct a pay-per-view to get some kind of ratings, some kind of cash flow into their company's pockets. I find that just disgusting at every level." Douglas had a lot more to say even though he was only asked three questions. You can read the full interview at Fanhouse.com.

Powell's POV: Douglas claimed prostitutes rolled Flair for his Rolexes? Ouch. Call me crazy, but I don't think Douglas's jabs at Flair are going to goad him into working a worked wrestling match with him. My guess is that Douglas realizes it's a lost cause and is now trying to get himself some publicity. If that was his goal, mission accomplished.

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