By James Caldwell, PWTorch columnist

-- Shawn Michaels might be on the WWE Raw brand and Jim Ross might be on the Smackdown brand calling TV airing on Friday nights, but Michaels wants Ross to call the final match of his career, whenever that might be.

Jim Ross said on jrsbarbq.com that Michaels told him this personally, which he said might be "some of the nicest words any wrestler has ever said to me."

"When HBK retires, which hopefully won't be any time soon, he told me he wanted me to call his last match too," Ross said. "I asked what if I'm not on the air any longer and he said it didn't matter and that I could come back for one more match."

In a previous blog entry, Ross said he believes Michaels will call it a career around WrestleMania 26 in April 2010, which would be appropriate for a Smackdown vs. Raw inter-brand "dream match" with Ross calling the match.

-- Ross also commented on Ric Flair, who he says texted him on New Year's Eve to say "it was IMPOSSIBLE for the Nature Boy NOT to party on such a big night." No surprise there.

Ross added that he believes Flair will have a "headline-grabbing" year in 2009 due to the various projects he's working on as an independent wrestler of sorts. "Knowing many of the projects that Ric is working on leads me to believe that '09 could be a banner year for Ric in many areas," said Ross.

Link: Jim Ross blog on jrsbarbq.com.

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