Ranking Every WWE DOINK From Worst To Best

5. Dink, Wink & Pink

Jeff Jarrett Doink
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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.

Man behind the slightly-smaller mask Tiger Jackson had worked for the company on and off for a decade before he got the Dink role, including a bizarre spell as Randy Savage sidekick 'The Macho Midget' during a period where the Macho Man was mostly relegated to the announce booth anyway.

Content that one of his biggest draws of all time didn't need the accompaniment, Vince McMahon devised the child-like persona to soften any remaining jagged parts of the Doink persona. The character was stretched further when the company decided to book four Doinks at the Survivor Series for the second year in a row. Or one, and three smaller versions against Jerry Lawler and his own miniature 'Kings Court'.

Wink and Pink weren't as vibrant between the ropes as Dink, and the babyfaces did the job anyway. Other than a hilarious subversion of the chicken-fight gag (Lawler went on his partner's shoulders for the fisticuffs rather than the other way around), all of this was useless.

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