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Troy Martin, better known as Shane Douglas (born November 21, 1964 in New Brighton, Pennsylvania) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling as "The Franchise" Shane Douglas, and has also appeared with the World Wrestling Federation as Dean Douglas. He is now a back-stage interviewer for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Wrestlers and characters that he interviews refer to him as "Franchise".

Career

Shane Douglas was trained by Dominic DeNucci in the Pittsburgh suburb of Freedom, Pennsylvania alongside notables such as Mick Foley and Brian Hildebrand in the mid-1980s, though he had been wrestling professionally to earn money since 1982. In 1986 he began wrestling for the Universal Wrestling Federation. He was a face then and did not rise above mid-card status.

He formed a team with Johnny Ace in WCW called the Dynamic Dudes, a gimmick which required him to wear pink trunks and carry a skateboard, which he did not know how to use. Jim Cornette, who was managing Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane (the Midnight Express), decided to manage the duo to help them develop. Eaton and Lane did not approve so they forced a match between the two teams with Cornette remaining neutral at ringside. He ended up turning on Douglas and Ace and they feuded for a couple of months.

Douglas soon left the company to wrestle on the independents. He also spent a good amount of time in the WWF where he had some modest success and defeated some good wrestlers. He returned to WCW in 1992 and teamed with Ricky Steamboat to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship. They had a long feud with The Hollywood Blondes, Steve Austin and Brian Pillman, and lost the belts to them on March 11, 1993. Douglas soon left WCW for Eastern Championship Wrestling, later known as Extreme Championship Wrestling.

Douglas helped to change that when he won the tournament to become the NWA World Heavyweight Champion on August 27, 1994. He threw down the belt and declared the ECW Title the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, and the only real World Title. Eastern Championship Wrestling then changed its name to Extreme Championship Wrestling.

Douglas started to express his true feelings in his interviews and was encouraged to do so by ECW boss, Paul Heyman. This helped ECW become an alternative to WCW and the WWF. He feuded with Sandman and Sabu for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship.

In 1995, he went to the WWF as Dean Douglas. He filmed several vignettes with a chalkboard teaching the wrestlers. He won the WWF Intercontinental Championship on October 22, 1995 by forfeit when Shawn Michaels said he couldn't wrestle Douglas. They then had Razor Ramon defeat him for it later that night. Douglas had been having problems with Michaels and Hall, who were members of the Clique, and he took this personally and quit the company. He has since held a grudge against Vince McMahon and WWE, and has stated that he would never work for them again.

He was soon back in ECW where he formed the Triple Threat with Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko. After they both left for WCW, he added the late Chris Candido and Bam Bam Bigelow. He won the ECW Title two more times during this run and was rehired by WCW in 2000.

He had an onscreen feud with Ric Flair, who was often his target during his ECW interviews. He was part of The New Blood group run by Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff who feuded with the older established stars, The Millionaire's Club. He won the Tag Team Championships with Buff Bagwell, the Hardcore title and the United States Championship during this run. He had Torrie Wilson as his valet too.

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Athletes - Shane Douglas

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