July 10, 1993 Superstars: Crush defeated Doink The Clown by count-out. The character of Doink the Clown has become something of a punchline in WWE history. Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event, your favorite shows, new movies, live sports, and more. Anonymous (WWE employee) wrote: The original Doink was Matt Borne.. Sign up for Peacock to watch. However, his tenure with the company was short-lived due to personal problems.[25]. During a match between Doink and Randy Savage on Monday Night Raw,Jackson climbed out from under the ring dressed like a miniature version of Randy Savage (instantly dubbed the Macho Midget). Sign up for Peacock to watch. Doink is a clown (or evil clown) wearing traditional clown makeup (or a mask decorated to resemble such) and brightly colored clothes. May 28, 2005 Empire Wrestling Federation: Doink the Clown defeated Mad Max Martin. Osborne's "Evil Doink" persona also appeared in WWE 2K22 in 2022, as DLC. February 27, 1993 Superstars:The Big Bossmandefeated Doink The Clown by disqualification. [27] At that time Wolfe no-showed the event to avoid the wrath of Borne. April 26, 2010 CWI: Doink The Clown defeated RJ City. In addition to Borne, Doink has been portrayed occasionally by other wrestlers in the WWF (now WWE) and unofficially on the independent circuit. Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Shahid. To make matters worse, WWE parted ways with Matt Borne around this time, leading to Ray Apollo taking on the character. We would like to send you notifications for the latest news and updates. Sign up for BINGE to watch. In 1991, Osborne signed with World Championship Wrestling and debuted as "Big Josh", an outdoorsman who danced with bears and was friends with Tommy Rich. He went on to spend time in World Class, WCW, and in Memphis in the late 1980s and early 1990s before finding himself back in WWE and ready for the biggest push of his career. Matthew D. Sullivan wrote in:One minor correction: Ray Licachelli played Doink starting at least 2 weeks prior to Royal Rumble 94, (which would have been several months before Wrestlemania 10), at least at house shows. The Doink wrestling persona is that of a circus clown. March 27, 2010 ISPW: Doink The Clown defeated Dutch Mantel. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. In Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling on June 6, 1980, he won his first championship, also the first of two tag titles he would hold with Buzz Sawyer. [1] Character history World Wrestling Federation The sight of the Macho Midget distracted Doink long enough to be rolled up for a pinfall. Sign up for Peacock to watch. March 19, 2006 Mid-South Wrestling Alliance: Doink the Clown defeated Brad Allen. the company going too far with occupational gimmicks, the stronger matches of the original WrestleMania event, character fans first saw among the crowd watching WWE events, 5 Reasons WrestleMania 27 Is The Worst One Ever (& 5 Why It's WrestleMania 9), the complicated feud between Jerry Lawler and Bret Hart, hidden details from Money in the Bank 2020, 10 TNA Impact Wrestling Characters Who Were More Annoying Than Entertaining, 10 Wrestlers Vince McMahon Had Big Plans For (That Fans Didn't Want To See), 10 AEW Wrestlers Who Recently Renewed Their Contracts Or Re-Signed With The Company. Perfect defeated Doink the Clown. He debuted as a fan who would run in from the crowd with an axe handle to save babyfaces from villainous attacks by heels. Last edited on 27 November 2022, at 00:13, "Slam! After Doink lost a match to then-World Heavyweight Champion Shane Douglas, Douglas went on to criticize Vince McMahon for turning a talented wrestler like Borne into a comic relief character, and claimed that he knew how to bring out Borne's full potential. While acting as a manager,Dink also wrestled twice on pay-per-view. Doink and Dink 5 of 8 At the height of WWE's cartoonish period in the early '90s, wrestling fans watched a short-lived team of a full-sized clown and a little-person clown. July 2, 2012 RAW:Heath Slater defeated Doink the Clown. defeated Mike Smiley. July 11, 2000 JCW Vol.1: Insane Clown Posse defeated Doink The Clown (Truth Martini) and Doink The Clown (Terek The Great). [13] Throughout the year Borne would face a variety of opponents on television and at live events, and the highlight of this stint was losing to Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat at the first WrestleMania in Madison Square Garden. January 20, 2007 Midwest Wrestling Alliance: Doink the Clown defeated Bad Boy. July 18, 1993 Wrestling Challenge: Doink The Clown defeated Ken Hamilton. With a miniature version of himself named Dink by his side, Doink targeted some of WWE's most notorious villains. They were scheduled to meet on August 15, 2010. WWE is saddened by the news that Matt Osborne, aka the original Doink the Clown, has passed away. He would squirt children with trick flowers and delight in making little tykes cry. This is, to date, Doink's final official appearance on WWE television. Add on little person clown wrestler Dink, and the act became the farce fans now remember it as. They took on The Royal Family, which consisted of Jerry The King Lawler, Sleazy, Queasy, and Cheesy. Doink the Clown | Pro Wrestling | Fandom And WWE returned to Doink, too, usually as a gag with wrestlers including Eugene, The Brooklyn Brawler, and Chris Jericho either playing the part or disguising themselves as Doink for various shenanigans. SmackDown results, April 28, 2023: Find out who was drafted in Night One of the 2023 WWE Draft, WWE NXT Spring Breakin' results, April 25, 2023: Indi Hartwell retains the NXT Women's Championship in gutsy performance at Spring Breakin', Roman Reigns survives Cody Rhodes with controversial victory at WrestleMania, 30 greatest WWE Title changes: WWE Top 10 special edition, April 23, 2023, Dominik Mysterios career lookback: WWE Playlist, Triple H introduces the World Heavyweight Championship. Raw 2009 (2008, as a DLC character). November 24, 2007 XWA: JDoink the Clown and Short Sleeve Sampson defeated Michael Sain. Whenever these little people were a part of a live event, one could be assured to go on a veritable roller coaster ride of fun and frolic. January 15, 2006 Mid-South Wrestling Alliance: Doink the Clown (Dusty Wolfe) defeated Seth Allen. March 12, 2010 WWS: Doink The Clown defeated AC Anderson. July 21, 2007 Mr. Chainsaw Productions Wrestling: Josh Abercrombie won an Elimination match to win the MCPW World title. Doink the Clown: Doink's friendly Mini Me. February 25, 2007 Big Time Wrestling: Doink the Clown defeated Dr. Heresy. June 18, 2006 Mid South Wrestling: Ricky Morton defeated Doink the Clown. He would squirt children with trick flowers and delight in making little tykes cry. [14] On May 23, 2010, Doink the Clown, portrayed by Dusty Wolfe, interfered against Skandor Akbar and his men Dr. Knuckles and Rommel. . Please note that the original evil Doink was an AWESOME character, and would never be inducted into WrestleCrap, but once he was made a good guy and given a half-sized clone, it was all over. [14] The new character debuted on March 27 for ISPW in New Jersey. Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Disney + HotStar. [2] He is still active in the Canadian Independent circuit. Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event, your favorite shows, new movies, live sports, and more. January 22, 1995 Royal Rumble: Doink The Clown entered at #8 but was eliminated by Kwang (Savio Vega). 19 10 2004 WWE TABOO TUESDAY FULL RESULTS, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. When the Dink gimmick was phased out by 1995, Giroux left the WWF as well, working mainly on the independent circuit ever since. Doink the Clown is a professional wrestling persona originally and most popularly portrayed by Matt Osborne, who debuted the Doink persona in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1992. Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Disney + HotStar. Doink seems to pop up every so often so let's run through each one of his one of appearances in WWE. Indeed, Doink the Clown was no gag character, but rather an ambitious new kind of heel that Borne gamely made his own. March 29, 2008 New World Wrestling: Doink the Clown defeated White Lion Jim Tanner. [6] The Beverly Brothers recruited "Little Louie" to even the sides but to little success falling to the combination of the Bushwhackers and Tiger Jackson time and again including a prime time loss on the "Road to WrestleMania IX" Special shown on March 28.[7]. He and Jeff Jarrett won the USWA Southern Tag Team Titles defeating Cactus Jack and Scott Braddock. Then, a year later at WrestleMania III, he was involved in a wild Mixed Tag Team Match, as Haiti Kid, Little Beaver and Hillbilly Jim faced King Kong Bundy, Lord Littlebrook and Little Tokyo in front of more than 93,000 WWE fans. [11] From then on, Dink accompanied Doink to ringside and took part in the clown antics played on opponents.
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