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Doink Talks Gimmick, Why He Doesn't Like Hogan, More - BiggGameJames - 10-01-2012
WWE Legend Doink the Clown (Matt Borne) appeared on Inside The Ropes on Thursday to discuss his time in WWE. Below are the highlights:
How he was offered the Doink gimmick when he came back to the WWF in 1992: "I worked as Matt Borne on TV. I did whatever they asked me to do. On the third night, Vince called me into his office and he asked me about my history in the wrestling business and from that conversation, he came up with the evil clown thing. It took me a back at first. He thought I could do it given my background but only if I wanted to do it. He told me to go home and think about it and I called him the next week and he flew me back and they had drawings and all kinds of shit and they painted my face different ways. Two weeks later, I was on TV in the nosebleeds section being a clown."
How much of Stephen Kingâs âItâ and Jack Nicholsonâs Joker influenced early Doink: "Iâve actually been told that I have a lot of mannerisms like Jack Nicholson so yeah I watched a lot of Jack and I watched âItâ and watched pretty much any evil clown stuff I could get my hands on and you know I ate, slept and drank evil clowns."
Who was his original opponent for WrestleMania 9: "I was supposed to wrestle Hogan at WrestleMania IX and Hogan refused. I donât know why, but I think it had something to do with a bad relationship between Hulk and my old partner Buzz Sawyer. Buzz and I, people thought we were brothers, we looked similar. Hogan, I donât know if he was afraid to work with me, so the second choice was Davey Boy Smith and he refused to work with him too. I donât know why because I always got along with him real well but a lot of people were wary of the clown character, so it ended up being me and Crush at WrestleMania IX."
Mattâs theory on how Hulk Hogan got his black eye at WrestleMania IX: "Randy Savage gave it to him. Iâd bet my left nut and my sonâs life on it. Hogan showed his true colours, thats why he got the black eye. Randy Savage was a man. Hulk Hogan has never been a man. Hulk Hoganâs a big ass pussy. I donât care if you call and tell him I said that. His ex Elizabeth was seeing this small time producer, who happened to be a friend of Hogan. Elizabeth was hiding in the back room when Savage went to see Hogan and he found out about it. Friends donât do friend like that. Who can you say is Hulk Hoganâs friend? The only people that can say their Hulk Hoganâs friends are the people who are riding his coat tails and trying to make a living off of him like Brian Knobbs or some fat fuck like that. Hogan was supposed to be Savageâs friend and he threw him under a bus and he got a black eye for it."
Why he doesn't like Hulk Hogan: "He was an arrogant fuck. I still think he is. I look at him and laugh because I know him for who he truly is. I donât like him. I really find it hard to even like him as a person. Heâs a phony inside and out. He showed that when he did that to Randy. When he said that him and Randy had made up, after Randy had died, well thatâs bullshit. Randy hated Hogan."
Differences between workers from the 80s/90s to today: "I could take Curt Hennig, Randy Savage and Bret Hart, those three guys, they could come to the building, havenât seen me for three weeks and weâd just meet in the ring and we would tear it up. We wouldnât have to say a word to each other. We didnât have to talk to each other. Thatâs the way great workers do it. You donât have to choreograph shit. These guys today theyâre great athletes, but theyâre not great workers. thereâs a difference. Working is not going out there and doing a gymnastics thing. working is making the 200 or 20,000 people believe, itâs feeding people and making them like what theyâre eating."
Borne also talks about working the first WrestleMania, his beef with "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, the original explosive finish of the WrestleMania 9 match with Crush, Steve Keirn also portraying Doink, Paul Heyman, and more.
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