Watch: Dark Side of the Ring's Season 4 episode about Matt Osborne aka as the Original Doink the Clown in the WWF:
Of course, as at the time, ECW was viewed by fans and wrestlers alike as a 'true alternative' to the cartoon style that the WWF and WCW were employing at that time period. This very philosophy of ECW would make Borne an 'automatic villain' in the eyes of the ECW fans as his character represented in the finest way everything that was wrong with professional wrestling in the year 1994.
After he would lose a match against then-ECW World Heavyweight Champion Shane Douglas, Douglas would go on to criticize Vince McMahon for turning a talented wrestler such as Borne into a comic relief character and claimed that he knew how to bring out Borne's full potential as a wrestler. Borne then shifted his character and ring name to 'Borne Again' and continued to dress in his clown suit, only without the green wig and wearing only a minimal amount of face paint, as well as growing out his hair and beard. After beating his opponents, he would make them dress in clown outfits. However, sadly, Osborne's tenure with ECW came to a end a very short time later in what has only been described as 'having to do with the very-real, behind-the-scenes troubles that Osborne had with drugs. You know you might have a problem if you are canned from ECW, which not only didn't care if you partied, it was kind of a requirement if you wanted to work there!
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