10 Old School Wresting Gimmicks That Need To Return
5. A Wrestling Clown
...that starts by destroying The Fiend.
Or not really, (the backlash wouldn't be worth the hot start the push would get) but ultimately two of them cannot exist within the same orbit. A character like this would be best served on a Wednesday Night anyway. Heel Doink was cut from the creative cloth of a Vince McMahon that simply doesn't exist anymore.
He was a psychopath pro wrestler using the clown paint as an artifice before he became a moonlighting children's party entertainer, and it's this gimmick that could probably get over again with the right guy or girl in the gear. The thing about a wrestling clown is that it's the stupidest idea in the world until it becomes the only one that makes sense. Wrestling is a circus, the promoter a literal ring master, and this caricature of wild colour and character is there to either make people laugh or cry with his actions that are in actuality mimicking reality rather than reflecting it.
It's a lot to ask of WWE, but not of AEW nor - to a lesser extent - NXT.