By James Caldwell, PWTorch columnist

The season finale of Hulk Hogan's "Celebrity Championship Wrestling" show airs this Saturday night on CMT, but Hogan will be busy in Charlotte and New York this weekend.

Hogan told Eagle 105.7 radio in Augusta, Ga. that he will be in New York with Steve Austin this weekend doing promotional work for liveautographs.com, which films celebrities signing merchandise that customers are buying to authenticate the merchandise.

Hogan was asked about the current feud with Vince McMahon over his CCW show and Hogan said he's trying to rebound from giving away money to his ex-wife and get a new project off the ground that McMahon wants to cut out from under him.

"All of a sudden, Vince McMahon raised his ugly head and thought we were threatening his company and he's been doing everything he can to shut us down," Hogan told the radio station. "We're just a reality show."

Hogan claimed people like Regis Philbin inquired about being on the CCW series when it was first announced, and now people from "all of the major companies" are calling wanting to be part of the show, especially if a second season is planned.

Asked about the wrestling business's history of exposing the inner workings, Hogan said McMahon smartened up the public in the 1980s when he said wrestling isn't a real sport, then created the Tough Enough series on MTV.

Hogan says the worst offense of exposing the business, though, is McMahon booking Triple H as the World champion.

"The biggest expose is putting the World Title on your son-in-law for the last five or six years," Hogan said in a huff. "That's probably the biggest expose I've ever seen keeping Triple H as champion."

Link: Downloadable audio podcast of the interview.

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