Doink also wrestled Randy Savage on Monday Night Raw, and substituted for Jerry Lawler, who faked an injury, against Bret Hart at SummerSlam in 1993. December 8, 2006 Great Lakes Championship Wrestling: Doink defeated Local Radio Guy. In 2005, at WrestleReunion II Borne participated in an eight-man tag team match alongside Andrew Martin, Steve Corino and The Masked Superstar. May 5, 2012 TCW: TCW International heavyweight champion Tim Storm defeated Doink The Clown to retain the title. Borne debuted in the WWF on March 2, 1985, wrestling Rick McGraw to a time-limit draw in the Boston Garden. Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event and the worlds best TV and movies. After his debut,Jackson helped Randy Savage out a few times but also went back to teaming with the Bushwhackers, this time working as The Macho Midget.. And since 2006, one man has continued the tradition of the mirth and merriment that has lasted for what seems to be a lifetime, and that is Hornswoggle. Since 1997, Doink has appeared sporadically in WWE. ~~~The four Doinks were Luke and Butch of the Bushwhackers and Mabel and Mo of Men on a Mission plus their manager Oscar. Dink was introduced as a present to Doink the Clown bySanta Claushimself on an edition of WWF Superstars of Wrestling that aired on November 27, 1993. November 24, 2006 WPW: Mighty Henrich Volkoff and Doink beat Rick Steiner and Jerry Grey to win the Tag Team titles! February 27, 1995 RAW: Doink The Clown defeated Bob Cook. The spectacle of a literal clown having not only one, but two featured matches at WrestleMania (the second of which saw him team up with his sidekick Dink) is all enough for fans to look back on him with disdain. Then, at the 1994 Survivor Series, Doink was joined by Dink, Pink, and Wink in a team collectively known as "Clowns R Us". Towards the beginning of the new millennium, an influx of Mexican minis entered WWE, and this grouping brought a most interesting, yet different style of operation in the ring. September 1, 2007 -WPW: Jerry Grey and Doink beat Navajo Warrior and Honky Tonk Man after HTM turned on Warrior. World Wrestling Federation - Doink and Dink: Doink The Clown turned babyface and introduced a little clown sidekicked named Dink. ~~~After the match, The REAL Doink The Clown showed up and taunted and humiliated Bam Bam Bigelow. June 25, 2010 SCW: Matt Borne defeated Sugarmask. May 16, 1993 Wrestling Challenge: Doink The Clown vs. Mr. [8] After his debut, Giroux helped Randy Savage out a few times but also went back to teaming with the Bushwhackers, this time working as "The Macho Midget".[9]. Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Tiger Jackson". Watch WrestleMania and other WWE Premium Live Events on Flow. Competing as himself, he defeated Bill Jordan. 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January 20, 2007 Midwest Wrestling Alliance: Doink the Clown defeated Bad Boy. The popular documentary series features interviews with a number of wrestling legends. Wolfe and Borne were scheduled to meet on August 15,[15] but Wolfe never arrived at the event. October 27, 2007 Northeast Wrestling: Doink and. ~~~Crush (Brian Adams) confronted Doink the Clown at ringside who only taunted Crush with his evil tricks. As the 1960s became the 1970s, the wrestling industry was territorial in scope. American professional wrestler (19572013), This article is about the American wrestler. Matt Borne, the original man behind Doink, was fired for recurring drug abuses, eventually leaving the gimmick (after bouncing through a few others) to Ray Licameli (also known as Ray Apollo). Osborne cited in a shoot interview that Bam Bam Bigelow did not like putting over Osborne. May 26, 2007 Big Time Wrestling: Doink and Kamala defeated Nick Steel and Wolfman. August 7, 1993 Superstars: Doink The Clown defeated Joey Maggs. Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Shahid. April 10, 2011 PWF: Judas Young defeated Matt Borne. April 10, 2010 Extreme Wrestling Federation: Jimmy Jacobs defeated Doink the Clown in Muncie, Indiana. Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event, your favorite shows, new movies, live sports, and more. Once the circus music started, WWE fans instantly knew that Doink the Clown was on his way to the ring. Sign up for Peacock to watch. April 10, 2005 NEPW April Assault: Doink the Clown (T.C. From that position, he pranked fans before building up to playing tricks on babyface wrestlers as well. Perfect in the qualifying round. Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Disney + HotStar. 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 Apollo had talent, he didnt own the character the way Borne had. 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. Sign up for BINGE to watch. Claude Giroux (born July 13, 1956) is a Canadian-born midget wrestler whose career spans over 20 years. [1][12] In Canada, he worked for All Star Wrestling and Maple Leaf Wrestling. June 2, 2007 East Coast Championship Wrestling: Doink the Clown defeated Tex McCoy. November 27, 1993 Superstars: Doink The Clown defeated Sid Garrison. He also suffered from heart disease, which had been a contributing factor in his death. Matt Osborne (as Doink) appeared in WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game and several versions of the video game WWE Raw. After this, Osborne returned to a full-time schedule, continuing to compete on a semi-regular basis all over the United States for the last several years until a few days before his death on June 28, 2013. However, his history is more complicated than it appears at first blush, including much more compelling beginnings than endings and changes to who played the gimmick. Watch every Premium Live Event and get unlimited access to WWE's premium content - available to you anywhere, anytime, on any device. March 23, 2007 Showcase Pro Wrestling: Doink defeated Mr. Wrestling IV. August 3, 2007 Rock N Roll Wrestling: Buck Zumhoff defeated Doink The Clown. Other wrestlers, with far more tenuous connections to the clown persona, took it on for other small-time appearances. Dink made a brief appearance at Joey Janela's Spring Break in the first ever Clusterfuck match in 2017, biting Veda Scott on her butt and eliminating himself from the match. defeated Mike Smiley. January 22, 1995 Royal Rumble: Doink The Clown entered at #8 but was eliminated by Kwang (Savio Vega). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Claude_Giroux_(wrestler)&oldid=1124028455, This page was last edited on 27 November 2022, at 00:13. Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event and the worlds best TV and movies. The beginnings of the Doink the Clown character were slow and subtle. I know this because at the time I worked on the staff at my colleges arena and we had a WWF house show in January of 1994. Or the jesters battling Bam Bam Bigelow & Luna Vachon at WrestleMania X? January 27, 2007 Impact Zone Wrestling: Honky Tonk Man defeated Doink the Clown. Doink the Clown: Doink's friendly Mini Me. July 7, 2006 Alabama Wrestling Federation: Doink and The Commandos beat. March 20, 1993 Superstars: Doink The Clown defeated Larry Sampson. May 25, 2001 Superstars Of All-Star Wrestling: Doink The Clown (Dusty Wolfe) defeated Sheik Omar in Council Bluffs, IA. After losing the match, all six midgets attacked Jerry Lawler and chased him from the ring. Raw 2009 (2008, as a DLC character). April 15, 2005 Superstars Of Wrestling: Doink The Clown defeated Beau James. Indeed, Doink the Clown was no gag character, but rather an ambitious new kind of heel that Borne gamely made his own. In Mexico there is a tradition for the midget wrestlers to imitate "full sized" wrestlers such as Mascarita Sagrada and Mascara Sagrada. When Doink the Clown beat Crush at WrestleMania 9, it was not the first WrestleMania match for the man beneath the paint. He would squirt children with trick flowers and delight in making little tykes cry. Jon Moxley Set To Compete At NJPW Resurgence. Clips of interviews with Mick Foley, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Bret Hart, Jeff Jarrett, Diamond Dallas Page, Jim Ross, and other legends were shown in the trailer. Anonymous (WWE employee) wrote: The original Doink was Matt Borne.. December 25, 1993 Superstars: Doink The Clown defeated Reno Riggins. May 8, 2010 Pro Wrestling Syndicate: Doink the Clown (Matt Borne) vs. Hacksaw Jim Duggan ended in a Double Count-out. Jackson's most known imitator role was as Dink the Clown, the slapstick partner of Doink The Clown. August 4, 2007 NWF: Doink the Clown defeated Ryan Denholm. 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. [10] He was selected by Rhino to face Chris Benoit on the July 31, 2003 Smackdown!.[11]. April 9, 2011 Fazoo Crew: Danny Doring and Smith James defeated Matt Borne and Pat Buck. August 2, 1993 RAW: Randy Macho Man Savage defeated Doink the Clown. 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. No matter whom hes been involved with or what hes been involved in, the diminutive Irishman has proven that good things do indeed come in small packages. Depending on how you look at him, Doink The Clown is one of the best products of WWE 's New Generation Era. January 8, 2005 New Era Pro Wrestling: Aaron Andrews defeated Doink the Clown (T.C. March 29, 2007 Anarchy Championship Wrestling: Doink the Clown defeated Ricky Rhodes. As it turned out, Doink the Clown peaked at WrestleMania 9. September 4, 1993 - Superstars: Doink The Clown defeated Mike Maraldo. He started taking delight in making children smile. Reynolds) in Painesville, Ohio. For the British recipient of the George Cross, see, World Class Championship Wrestling (19861989), United States Wrestling Association (19891991). January 28, 2005 Far North Wrestling: Doink the Clown defeated Lord Zoltan. [28] July 10, 1993 Superstars: Crush defeated Doink The Clown by count-out. This was all part and parcel of the popular demand that they were in. [1] Some of his villainous pranks included tripping Big Boss Man with a tripwire, "accidentally" poking Tatanka in the eye with a mop, dumping water on Marty Jannetty and attacking Crush with a loaded prosthetic arm. March 1, 1993 RAW: Doink the Clown defeated Koko B. Ware by Submission. November 20, 2009 WPW: Doink and Honky Tonk Man and Diamond Dallas Page beat Mighty Henrich and Jerry Grey and LA Park. November 24, 1993 Survivor Series: A Team of Doinks defeated Bam Bam Bigelow and Bastien Booger and The Headshrinkers. January 23, 1994 RAW: Doink The Clown defeated Joey Stallings. Watch WrestleMania and other WWE Premium Live Events on Flow. Perfect ended in a time limit draw. Dink was a "gift" to Doink that completed his babyface turn in 1993, highlighting the durability of the gimmick even if it also humanised and forever tarnished the edge the original incarnation had. It was a simpler time in wrestling, and having a wrestler produce a double of himself only enhanced an underlying sense that Doink was fundamentally different from the other heels around him. Sports-entertainment has always been a big mans game, but there was a very special and unique group that showcased their talents well before WWE became a global juggernaut. Borne then changed his ring name to Borne Again, and continued wearing the clown suit, albeit without the wig, wearing a minimal amount of face paint, as well as growing out his hair and beard. Sign up for BINGE to watch. Their antics throughout their matches would have the audience enjoying themselves to the highest degree. In retaliation Akbar called on the original Doink (Matt Borne). Sign up for Peacock to watch. Eventually, Doink became a jobber, regularly losing to wrestlers like Jeff Jarrett, Hakushi, Waylon Mercy and, in his final televised match in September 1995, to Hunter Hearst Helmsley. April 9, 2005 UCW Battle of Champions: Doink the Clown (T.C. [8] On December 10, 2007, Doink, played by Matt Borne for the final time, participated in a battle royal of 15 WWE alumni for the Raw 15th anniversary special episode. Rather than appear in preview vignettes or debuting in the ring, this was a character fans first saw among the crowd watching WWE events. One of the mottos that WWE is proud of is that of putting smiles on peoples faces. [21] Borne would shortly thereafter become Doink the Clown, in a villainous clown gimmick that would frequently pull tricks on wrestlers at ringside as well as fans. Through three seasons, Dark Side of the Ring has covered some of the most controversial topics in wrestling history, ranging from the Chris Benoit murder-suicide and the death of Owen Hart to the Montreal Screwjob and the Brawl for All. June 9, 2012 SCW: Doink The Clown defeated Smith James. 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. June 11, 2005 EWF: Doink the Clown defeated Noah Lott. Season 4 premieres May 30, 10P on @vicetv. April 17, 1995 RAW: Doink The Clown defeated Raymond Roy. May 13, 2006 FEW: Doink the Clown defeated Chainz. Doink The Clown has been played by various WWE wrestlers over the years. Pink, along with Dink and Wink, was one of three dwarf wrestlers who accompanied Doink the Clown to the ring in 1994. September 12, 1993 - Wrestling Challenge: Doink The Clown defeated Scott Despres. October 4, 1993 RAW: Doink The Clown defeated Corey Student. May 9, 1994 RAW: Doink The Clown defeated Mike Terrance. However, the fans hated this,[25] as ECW was viewed as an alternative to the WWF and WCW and seeing a gimmick like this made Doink a villain for a completely different reason. May 6, 2006 East Coast Championship Wrestling: Doink The Clown defeafed Tex McCoy. Doink and Dink also battled with Bam Bam Bigelow and Luna Vachon in a feud that culminated at WrestleMania X. Doink soon became a jobber, regularly losing to wrestlers like Jeff Jarrett, Hakushi, Waylon Mercy and, in his final televised match in September 1995, to Triple H. Doink reemerged one last time in 1996 at the Slammy Awards and was . Other topics include the transition to the New Generation Era, turning Doink babyface, WrestleMania 17, wrestling in the Northeast, the travel around the world, being paired with Dink, working . In the early days of his career, Giroux wrestled in many National Wrestling Alliance territories, for the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico, and in Germany, as well. IWA United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time), NWA Southwest Television Championship (1 time), RCW United States Tag Team Championship (1 time) with Jay Love, This page was last edited on 7 April 2023, at 12:04. July 6, 2008 World Pro Wrestling: SoCal Crazy defeated Doink The Clown. February 14, 1993 Wrestling Challenge: Doink The Clown defeated Bobby Young. This caused them to lose the Wrecking Ball Wrestling tag titles. He and Jeff Jarrett won the USWA Southern Tag Team Titles defeating Cactus Jack and Scott Braddock. 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 18, 2006 Impact Zone Wrestling: Lil Joe and Captain America and Doink beat Matt Garza and Prince al-Farat and The Jihad Kid. April 26, 2010 CWI: Doink The Clown defeated RJ City. Prestigious. [27] At that time Wolfe no-showed the event to avoid the wrath of Borne. 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. Hed have just one more noteworthy PPV performance, getting woven into the complicated feud between Jerry Lawler and Bret Hart at SummerSlam. On a December episode of Raw, Doink was given a present from Santa Claus in the form of a midget in the Doink costume, which he named Dink. 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. [12] On June 2, 2007, Doink, Eugene and Kane defeated Umaga, Viscera and Kevin Thorn on Saturday Night's Main Event XXXIV. 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? Osborne was found dead on June 28, 2013, in the Plano, Texas apartment he lived in. Add on little person clown wrestler Dink, and the act became the farce fans now remember it as. Doink loved to torture early rivals Randy Savage, Bret Hart and especially Crush. [2] Giroux also made appearances in the World Wrestling Federation from 1982, often teaming with his brother Lionel Giroux who wrestled as "Little Beaver". In many ways, Crush was never the same after his WrestleMania IX encounter, when he was attacked by not one, but two Doinks! Arguably the most successful individual of his group in the late 1980s and early 90s was a man named Claude Giroux. May 28, 2005 Empire Wrestling Federation: Doink the Clown defeated Mad Max Martin. July 4, 2007 World Pro Wrestling: Rick Steiner defeated Doink to retain the WPW Heavyweight title. [19] Borne made his final pay-per-view appearance for the company on May 17, 1992 at WrestleWar, where he defeated Richard Morton;[19] and continued to make sporadic WCW TV appearances throughout the summer of 1992 before leaving the company. Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event, your favorite shows, new movies, live sports, and more. The joker tumbled into a WWE ring at WrestleMania X-Seven in a Gimmick Battle Royal, teamed with Kane and Eugene against Umaga, Viscera & Kevin Thorn in perhaps the weirdest tag match in WWE history and was last seen on July 2, 2012 in a losing effort against Heath Slater. Pro Wrestling Illustrated, March 1993 issue, p.27. And oftentimes in the Land of the Rising Sun, the wrestling events featured a very talented performer who went by the name of Little Tokyo. In addition to Borne, Doink has been portrayed occasionally by other wrestlers in the WWF (now WWE) and unofficially on the independent circuit. The original and in many fans eyes (including mine) the best was Matt Borne. [29] He was 55 years old. April 15, 2007 NWA Black and Blue: Tom Carter defeated Doink the Clown by disqualification. The sight of the Macho Midget distracted Doink long enough to be rolled up for a loss after Doinks own tactics were turned on him. Raw results, April 24, 2023: Bad Bunny challenged Damian Priest to a Street Fight at WWE Backlash in Puerto Rico! Doink The Clown turned babyface and introduced a little clown sidekicked named. February 7, 2009 WWA: Doink The Clown and Shockwave The Robot defeated Vladimir Drago and Josef Von Schmidt.
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