Ranking Every WWE DOINK From Worst To Best
Send out the clowns...
The "WWE" qualifier is particularly important for the title of this piece.
For decades and perhaps even up until the very moment these words are being typed, somebody is doing their own Doink to make a few dollars from a gimmick that supposedly never drew.
The complex history of the Sports Entertainment clown is one mostly rooted in mockery of the time at which it was devised. An increasingly cartoonish World Wrestling Federation was all too comfortable a home for such a character, with critics noting how Vince McMahon's circus had been due one for a while anyway. What they missed - then noted in hindsight - was that as a psychopathic heel, the persona was inspired.
Performed with vile glee by Matt Bourne, it was as if an unpredictable sociopathic ex-wrestler had stumbled upon the green wig at the bottom of a bottle and found his calling. Cynical, evil and cruel, Doink had legs before the McMahon's comedic tastes cut them off entirely. As a babyface it was broken, and alongside Dink it was permanently destroyed, to the point where the person donning the paint might as well have been attending a New Generation fancy dress party.
But that’s the point of this - so many gave it a go that you could actually host said soiree without even needing to invite any other gimmicks. Not that all of them would be particularly welcome...
10. Money In The Bank 2020
Perhaps the most egregious sight gag in match leaning entirely on egregious sight gags instead of an actual story, the "Doink" behind a chair in WWE HQ was a fly buzzing around the titan tower-sized mound of sh*t.
As evidenced by Paul Heyman, Bruce Prichard, John Laurinaitis and Vince McMahon being some of the only IRL cameos available to the company, WWE were as thin on the ground personnel-wise as much as they were creatively when crafting their first major cinematic effort since WrestleMania's well received Boneyard and Firefly Funhouse matches.
This was every kind of awful clown show, in spite of the reasonably massive stakes. Money In The Bank was the shambolic opposite of all there was to love about the 'Show Of Shows' matches in spite of all the tremendous potential, with the above image being literally all this Doink amounted to on the night.
Sh*t idea, sh*t execution, sh*t Doink. A pie in the face would be a waste of the pie.