"Inside Wrestling", June 1997

ONE ON ONE: The telephone wires sizzle each month, as two wrestlers voice their rage and hostility toward each other. Here's the unedited transcript of their conversation, your chance to feel the raw emotion that results when two antagonists face off ... One On One.

While WCW laments the interference of women in what is supposed to be a man's sport, ECW revels it. After all, the women of ECW don't just argue, pull hair, and engage in minor skirmishes. These ladies, namely Beulah McGillicutty and Francine, are right there in the trenches. They'll fight with each other, and if necessary, they'll fight each other's men.

Beulah and Francine can be tough and independent, but they're also loyal to their men, Tommy Dreamer and Shane Douglas, respectively, and very beautiful. They're certainly not ashamed of showing off their bodies! And they'll put those bodies on the line night after night at ECW events. Friends? Hardly. They once were able to peacefully co-exist, but only for a brief period of time. They're serious enemies now.

Lets just look at some of the things that have happened to these two beauties in the last year or two: Beulah has been piledriven (repeatedly, by Dreamer), belly-to-belly suplexed (by Douglas), bodyslammed (by several people), and hit with a few foreign objects (by Francine). Francine has been piledriven (by Dreamer), superbombed (by the PitBulls), spanked (by ECW's mysterious masked man), and moonsaulted (by Beulah). And remember, these two women don't even consider themselves wrestlers.

ECW fans would love to see Beulah and Francine battle each other (wo)mano a (wo)mano in the ring, but for now, we'll just have to be content to let them go at it over the telephone... "One On One."


FRANCINE: What is this, Beulah? A war of words? I hardly think you're capable.

BEULAH: Well that's all you are, Francine, talk. You shoot your mouth off, but when you're in the ring with me, you try to run and hide.

FRANCINE: Excuse me? I run and hide? You're always hiding behind that idiot, Tommy Dreamer. I don't know why you bother. I'll always be able to catch up with you. That is, until you find a real man.

BEULAH: Real man? What's that supposed to mean?

FRANCINE: You know what that means. A real man, like Shane Douglas. But don't worry, I'm enough woman for him.

BEULAH: If you're referring to size, I know that from facing you in the ring.

FRANCINE: Don't give me another reason to kick you around. You and that loser of a boyfriend you have.

BEULAH: Tommy will stand up and fight whenever someone calls him out. A real man knows how to treat a woman, too. All Shane does is hide behind you and the other two members of his Triple Threat, Chris Candido and Brian Lee.

FRANCINE: Excuse me? Tommy Dreamer knows how to treat a woman? Let me get this straight. Dreamer, the guy who piledrived you like a million times a few years ago, knows how to treat a woman? Have you seen what your man has done to me? I've got the chiropractor bills to prove it. Some man that he is — picking on a poor, defenseless woman. He'd rather beat me up than take on Shane.

BEULAH: Oh, you've really lost it. You know that, in the ring, everything is a fair game. You get in Tommy's face, and he'll do what he has to do to you. I won't stop him. If I have to go through Shane to get to you, that's the chance I'm willing to take. And anything Shane can dish out, I can take.

FRANCINE: All this talk won't protect you from Shane or me.

BEULAH: I've seen Shane Douglas' preference in opponents. Women and wrestlers with neck injuries. What's next? The elderly? Small children? Household pets?

FRANCINE: Shane is the greatest wrestler in ECW today. He's the World TV Champion. Anyone who represents a threat to that will go down. When you enter our warzone, you better be ready for battle.

BEULAH: If he's so great, why won't he put up that title against Tommy?

FRANCINE: Shane is focusing his energy on the PitBulls. Shane is a disciplined athlete. When he is finishing crippling both those mangy mutts, maybe we'll lower ourselves again and get back in the ring with that freak again.

BEULAH: I doubt it. Shane'll get past either PitBull. And he fears Tommy. You know it, and I know it.

FRANCINE: Let's cut the crap. This is about you and me. You're pining away for Shane. You can't stand it when you see his arms wrapped around me.

BEULAH: I don't give a damn about Shane. Shane is a lowlife who brings people like you to his level. With Tommy, I'm a free woman.

FRANCINE: Everytime you see me and Shane, your eyes get green with jealousy, honey.

BEULAH: Let's just keep the men out of this. Let's you and I settle this once and for all the way everyone settles things in ECW. Let's get between the ropes, and may the better woman win.

FRANCINE: And you better believe the better woman is me. Just listen to the fans when I'm in the ring. They know a beautiful woman when they see one.

BEULAH: Well, they're not seeing it with you. Did you forget some of the things they've chanted at you? Don't worry, I won't repeat them. I know how crazy you get when they get on you and don't stop. They know there is only one real woman in ECW.

FRANCINE: Then what are we waiting for? Why don't they just put up a cage and see if you have the guts to get in the ring with me alone?

BEULAH: Fine. I'll make that horse face of yours uglier than it already is.

FRANCINE: With what? You're great wrestling talent? There is something you need to understand. When you get in the ring with me, I'm a wild animal, but the difference between us is I can wrestle. I was trained by the best, Shane Douglas.

BEULAH: He may have taught you how to cheat, but there isn't much he could teach you about wrestling or about getting extreme. You know the ECW fans consider Tommy the most extreme of all the wrestlers in ECW.

FRANCINE: Dreamer's the most extreme? The fans didn't see extreme until Shane came along. He showed them extreme and they turned away in disgust.

BEULAH: Shane has taken things too far once too many times.

FRANCINE: But that's what extreme is all about.

BEULAH: You're wrong. I'll show you what extreme is all about. You'll see.