After losing the match, all six midgets attacked Jerry Lawler and chased him from the ring. More than a journeyman whod lucked into that match with The Dragon, Borne was a respected veteran whod worked for different NWA territories before that first WWE residency. Lee gets the central focus, C.M. Hed have just one more noteworthy PPV performance, getting woven into the complicated feud between Jerry Lawler and Bret Hart at SummerSlam. Copyright 2023 Fightful, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Disney + HotStar. Who could forget Doink and Dink (along with Wink and Pink) taking on Lawler and his team of miniature kings Queazy, Cheezy and Sleazy at Survivor Series in 1994? February 26, 2005: Doink the Clown defeated Big Daddy Kahuna in Adams, Massachusetts. Rather than meekly retreating after the Hawaiian big man apparently injured his arm, the clown went on the attack. January 22, 1995 Royal Rumble: Doink The Clown entered at #8 but was eliminated by Kwang (Savio Vega). December 9, 2006 Great Lakes Championship Wrestling: A Local Gym Teacher defeated Doink. Sign up for BINGE to watch. Dinks second PPV appearance came at the 1994 Survivor Series where he was joined by fellow Mini Clowns Pink and Wink to make up the team ClownsRUs to face Jerry Lawler and his three Mini Kings Sleazy, Cheesy and Queasy. His attitude insinuated that he had developed borderline personality disorder from having been forced to wrestle as a clown; after winning matches he would dress his opponent in clown accessories to humiliate them. 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. Doink." That September, he reformed his tag team with Buzz Sawyer under the management of Percival Pringle III to win a one-day tournament to crown new World Tag Team Champions. December 8, 2006 Great Lakes Championship Wrestling: Doink defeated Local Radio Guy. August 21, 2010 ICW Super Brawl 1: Doink defeated Mike Callahan in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Jackson's first imitationgimmick came as a direct result of the antics of theheel Doink the Clown, who had a second Doink come out to interfere in the match. January 7, 2009 World Pro Wrestling: Honky Tonk Man and Doink The Clown vs. Jerry Grey and Mighty Volkoff was a NoContest. In retaliation Akbar called on the original Doink Matt Borne. With Doink still a curiosity, and Crushs raw power making him a babyface on the rise, there were a lot of eyes on this match, and a lot of intrigue when a second Doink, played by Steve Keirn, got involved to help the original Doink win. Plenty of wrestlers have played the role of this iconic clown! As it turned out, Doink the Clown peaked at WrestleMania 9. On the July 12, 2010 Raw, Doink teamed with William Regal, Primo and Zack Ryder to lose to Santino Marella, Goldust, Vladimir Kozlov and The Great Khali, when he was pinned by Khali. For better or for worse, the fact that multiple wrestlers played Doink in WWE opened up additional space for Matt Borne and others to hold onto the character on the indies. March 27, 2010 ISPW: Doink The Clown defeated Dutch Mantel. ET on Tuesday, May 30. With Midget Wrestling being seen as a sideshow to the "tall version", Giroux tended to travel from promotion to promotion instead of staying in one area for a long time. The popular documentary series features interviews with a number of wrestling legends. March 12, 2010 WWS: Doink The Clown defeated AC Anderson. [14] On May 23, 2010, Doink the Clown, portrayed by Dusty Wolfe, interfered against Skandor Akbar and his men Dr. Knuckles and Rommel. April 18, 1993 Wrestling Challenge: Doink The Clown defeated Jim Powers. Jackson's most known imitator role was as Dink the Clown, the slapstick partner of Doink The Clown. He displayed an in-ring acumen that surprised his opponents. January 23, 1994 RAW: Doink The Clown defeated Joey Stallings. June 20, 1993 Wrestling Challenge: Doink The Clown defeated Bob Backlund. Matt Osborne - Wikipedia Doink is a playable character in Acclaim's 1994 video game, WWF Raw, Midway's WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game (1995), and THQ's SmackDown vs. Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Shahid. August 14, 1995 RAW: Waylon Mercy defeated Doink The Clown by Submission. With names like Lord Littlebrook, Little Tokyo and The Haiti Kid, these competitors werent the largest guys in the locker room, but that didnt stop them from stealing the show night after night. May 19, 2006 World of Hurt Wrestling: Doink the Clown defeated The Jersey Devil. Watch WrestleMania and other WWE Premium Live Events on Flow. May 12, 2007 Big Time Wrestling: Gino Martino defeated Doink to retain the United States title. WWE is saddened by the news that Matt Osborne, aka the original Doink the Clown, has passed away. Doink the Clown | WWE Doink The Clown | WWE Wiki | Fandom December 8, 2012 PWX: Shooter Storm defeated Doink The Clown. On May 25, 1990 he defeated Kerry Von Erich for the USWA Texas Heavyweight Title and dropped the title back to Von Erich on June 1. Following his departure from the WWF, Osborne appeared (as Matt Borne) in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) for several matches as Doink in a blue and green clown suit, setting up an angle where ECW champion Shane Douglas criticized 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. Dink has turned up in full outfit. October 23, 1993 Superstars: Doink The Clown defeated Barry Horowitz. Stevie Lawn wrote in: There has been several men who have played Doink. [31], In June 2015, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against WWE, alleging that "WWE created a culture of violence and sacrificed Matt Osborne's brain for its own profit" which "led to further illnesses and injuries, including depression and drug abuse, which ultimately resulted in his untimely death." July 6, 2008 World Pro Wrestling: Kip James defeated Doink The Clown to retain the WPW Heavyweight title. Giroux made his debut in the late 1970s after being trained by Little Brutus and Hall of Famer Sky Low Low under the name "Tiger Jackson". Shortly afterward, however, Osborne was fired for re-occurring drug abuses. March 28, 1994 RAW: Doink The Clown defeated Eric Cody. Prestigious. [11][12] Dink's second PPV appearance came at the 1994 Survivor Series where he was joined by fellow "Mini Clowns" Pink and Wink to make up the team Clowns'R'Us to face Jerry Lawler and his three "Mini Kings" Sleazy, Cheesy and Queasy. June 5, 2010 WXW: Matt Borne defeated Anthony Michaels. [32] The suit was filed by the mother of two of Osborne's four children, and was litigated by attorney Konstantine Kyros, who has been involved in a number of other lawsuits against WWE. October 28, 2007 Mid-South Wrestling Alliance: Prince Al Farat (w/Jin Soon) defeated Doink the Clown. Doink spent the summer months of 1993 continuing his feud with Crush as well as successful house show runs against Marty Jannetty and the 1-2-3 Kid, as well as occasionally losing to higher profile opponents like Bret Hart or Tatanka. July 4, 2006 World Pro Wrestling: Honky Tonk Man defeated Doink the Clown. January 11, 1993 RAW: Doink the Clown was shown messing with fans in the crowd and being mean to them. Indeed, Doink the Clown was no gag character, but rather an ambitious new kind of heel that Borne gamely made his own. January 27, 2007 Impact Zone Wrestling: Honky Tonk Man defeated Doink the Clown. American professional wrestler (19572013), This article is about the American wrestler. March 7, 1993 Wrestling Challenge: Doink The Clown defeated Joey Maggs. July 15, 2007 Championship Wrestling International: Doink the Clown and Nacho Libre beat Eliminator and Seth James. Pro Wrestling Illustrated, March 1993 issue, p.27. Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event, your favorite shows, new movies, live sports, and more. WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt said the suit was without merit and blamed the attorneys for taking advantage of the families involved. September 10, 2005 Pro Wrestling Entertainment: Doink The Clown defeated Jackpot w/Max Speed. After two time-limit draws, Mr. Season 4 premieres May 30, 10P on @vicetv. 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. At the front end of the Attitude Era, Stone Cold Steve Austin pummeled him while bloodthirsty fans chanted kill the clown!. Doink the Clown | WWE May 26, 2007 Big Time Wrestling: Doink and Kamala defeated Nick Steel and Wolfman. April 7, 2012 TCW: Doink The Clown defeated Les Mayne. May 9, 1994 RAW: Doink The Clown defeated Mike Terrance. Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event, your favorite shows, new movies, live sports, and more. In this match, Doink and Dink teamed with Wink and Pink to meet Lawler's dwarf team of 'little kings' Queazy, Cheezy, and Sleazy. In the years that followed, the duo provided some of WWE's most memorable moments. [9] Following his departure, Doink was played by Ray Licameli (also known as Ray Apollo).[23][24]. April 10, 2011 PWF: Judas Young defeated Matt Borne. April 13, 2008 BDW: Doink The Clown defeated Shadow Dragon. ~~~Josh Abercrombie defeated Zeroe (c) and Nacho Libre and Doink and Truth Martini and Zach Gowen in a 6-WAY. May 29, 2005 Superstar Wrestling Federation: Erotic Express defeated Doink (Drake Tungsten?) Watch WrestleMania and other WWE Premium Live Events on Flow. World Wrestling Federation Evil Doink (Played by Matt Borne): World Wrestling Federation Doink and Dink: Results from Mid-South (Oklahoma), Impact Zone (Oklahoma), or Asylum Championship (Texas) Doink is Dusty Wolfe. As the 1960s became the 1970s, the wrestling industry was territorial in scope. January 28, 2005 Far North Wrestling: Doink the Clown defeated Lord Zoltan. He would squirt children with trick flowers and delight in making little tykes cry. From then on, Dink accompanied Doink to ringside and took part in the clown antics played on opponents. [13] Then afterwards, Giroux left the WWF in spring 1995. During this match, another Doink (Steve Keirn) came out from under the ring and attacked Crush with another prosthetic arm, allowing the real Doink to pin Crush.[22]. The big history of WWE's little people | WWE January 22, 1994 Royal Rumble: Doink The Clown entered at #14 but was eliminated by Bam Bam Bigelow. He's the author of the wrestling book, The Long Way Home. The next Doink was Ray Apollo/Ray Licamelli, a friend of Bam Bam Bigelows who used to work indys in the New Jersey area. At least good ole JR didn't say, "it's a little Tiger Jackson . In addition to Borne, Doink has been portrayed occasionally by other wrestlers in the WWF (now WWE) and unofficially on the independent circuit.
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