Doink the Clown

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Doink the Clown
Statistics
Ring name(s) Doink the Clown
European Doink Le Clown
Billed height 6' 1" (185 cm.)
Billed weight 243 lbs.(110 kg.)
Born Parts Unknown
Debut 1992

Doink the Clown is a gimmick used by several professional wrestlers since the 1990s. The Doink character originally wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation. Doink now can be found occasionally on the independent wrestling circuit in the United States and on WWE programming.


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History

The Doink wrestling character is that of a circus clown. He wrestles in a clown costume, complete with face paint, makeup, and bright green hair. His diminutive sidekick, Dink the Clown (who was approximately four feet tall) wore a similar clown suit.

After making appearances in late 1992 in the crowd and at ringside, playing tricks on the fans and wrestlers, The Doink character made his in-ring debut in the WWF in 1993,[1] and he wrestled as both a villain and fan favorite. As a villain, Doink played cruel jokes on both fans and wrestlers in order to amuse himself and put them off guard.[1] Some of his villainous pranks included tripping The Big Boss Man with a trip wire, dumping water on Marty Jannetty and attacking Crush with a prosthetic arm. As a villain, he clashed with Crush at WrestleMania IX, Randy Savage on an early edition of Monday Night Raw, and Bret Hart after substituting for an "injured" Jerry Lawler at SummerSlam in 1993.

Doink then turned on Lawler, becoming a babyface as a result.[1] Matt Osborne, the original man behind Doink, was fired for re-occurring drug abuses, eventually leaving the gimmick (after bouncing through a few others) to Ray Apollo. Now as a fan favorite and with a new dwarf sidekick Dink, Doink encountered Lawler again the following year in a match at Survivor Series. In this match, Doink and Dink teamed with Wink and Pink to meet Lawler's dwarf team of 'little kings' Queazy, Cheezy, and Sleazy.[1] As a fan favorite, Doink was more of a comic relief character, but continued to play jokes on other wrestlers, mostly villains such as Lawler and Bobby Heenan. Doink and Dink also battled with Bam Bam Bigelow and his 'main squeeze' Luna Vachon in a feud that culminated at WrestleMania X.[1]

Some wrestling purists criticized the WWF for creating the Doink character, claiming that it pandered to what they saw as the "one-ring circus" atmosphere the WWF was promoting at the time; others thought that Doink was appropriate given professional wrestling's carny origins.[citation needed] Others preferred the villainous version, saying that Matt Borne made the gimmick work, but once he became a fan favorite, his character was neutered. One of Doink's final appearances in his original run was at the Slammy Awards when he was attacked by Stone Cold Steve Austin amidst chants of 'kill the clown'.

Doink made random appearances in the next decade. He competed in the Gimmick Battle Royal at WrestleMania X-Seven. He showed up in the A.P.A. Bar Room Brawl at Vengeance in 2003. He also fought Rob Conway on an October 2005 episode of Raw.[2] On the June 2, 2007 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event, Brooklyn Brawler portrayed Doink for the WWE as he has did in several house shoes over the past few years. he teamed up with Eugene and Kane to defeat Umaga, Viscera, and Kevin Thorn. On Raw XV, the 15th-anniversary Raw special on December 10, 2007, Doink participated in the 15th Anniversary Battle Royal.[3]

Personnel

A number of men have used the Doink gimmick in the WWF. The first (and best-known) Doink was Matt Borne. The second was Steve Keirn who played Doink at Wrestlemania IX, and occasionally played Doink at house shows. He was succeeded by Dusty Wolfe and Steve Lombardi, who played the character temporarily after Borne left the company until Ray Apollo was brought in as the permanent replacement.At one point it was shown that even Chris Jericho played the role of "Doink The Clown" once.

In wrestling

  • Theme music
    • Doink's entrance music originally consisted of the famous circus song "Entry of the Gladiators", which segued into menacing music, which contained maniacal laughing like that of an evil clown. This song is called "Nightmare Clown".
    • After the character became a fan favorite, the music changed to a full version of "Entry."

Championships and accomplishments

None of the people who portrayed Doink won the championship for anything, however they all won a title when they weren't playing Doink.

  • Accomplishments

Inducted George Steele in the WWE Hall of Fame


with Dink, Pink and Wink vs. Jerry Lawler, Sleazy, Queasy and Cheesy at Survivor Series

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e "Doink's Alumni Profile". WWE. Retrieved on 2007-06-17.
  2. ^ Brad Dykens. "Brooklyn Brawler's OWW Profile". OWW. Retrieved on 2008-12-03.
  3. ^ Jim Ross. "Jim Ross' Blog". Jim Ross. Retrieved on 2007-12-23.

External links

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