The Doink character wrestled as both a heel and a face in the WWF. As a heel, Doink played cruel jokes on both fans and face wrestlers in order to amuse himself and put them off guard. Some of his heelish pranks included tripping the Big Boss Man with a trip wire and attacking Crush with a prosthetic arm. Lawler would turn on Doink and effectively turn Doink face as a result. Matt Borne , the original man behind Doink, disapproved of this face turn and would leave the company, eventually leaving the gimmick after bouncing through a few others to Ray Apollo.
Now as a face and with a new midget sidekick Dink , Doink would encounter Lawler again the following year in the infamous match at Survivor Series As a face, Doink was more of a comic relief character, but continued to play jokes on other wrestlers, mostly heels; notable examples were with Jerry Lawler and Bobby Heenan. These jokes were considerably less cruel while Doink was a face, however. Doink's finishing move as a heel was the Stump Puller, a submission hold which involves seating an opponent on the mat, sitting on his shoulders, and pulling one of the opponent's legs towards their head.
After becoming a babyface, his switch his finisher to a top rope Seated senton to a fallen opponent, dubbed the " Whoopie Cushion " by Jerry Lawler. 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.
Others preferred the heel version, saying that Matt Borne made the gimmick work, but once he was turned face his character was neutered. One of Doink's final appearances in his original run was at the Slammy Awards when he was given a Stunner by Stone Cold Steve Austin amidst chants of 'kill the clown'. A number of men have used the Doink gimmick in the WWF. The first and best-known Doink was Matt Borne. 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.
Steve Keirn also donned the Doink gimmick as part of a storyline that involved multiple Doinks, the character's first feud , with Crush , which culminated in a WrestleMania IX match where a second Doink Keirn crawled from underneath the ring during the match to incapacitate Crush with a cast. The 'real' Doink was at this point still played by Borne. After the incident, referees had to escort him to the back while Mabel was making his way to the ring.
The gleam in his eyes and his grin could not hide the twisted monster that lurked behind the clown makeup and costume. And Doink showed that he was no joke in the ring. He displayed an in-ring acumen that surprised his opponents. In many ways, Crush was never the same after his WrestleMania IX encounter, when he was attacked by not one, but two Doinks! After earning the wrath of a wicked Jerry Lawler following his inability to defeat The "Hit Man," Doink showed a kinder, gentler side.
He started taking delight in making children smile. With a miniature version of himself named Dink by his side, Doink targeted some of WWE's most notorious villains. In the years that followed, the duo provided some of WWE's most memorable moments. Doink the Clown. Superstar Stats Doink the Clown.
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