ECW | Borne Again | Custom Titantron | “Stairs and Flowers“

After a short, but extremely memorable yet tumultuous run in the WWF as Doink the Clown…Matt Borne found himself unemployed. Despite getting an evil clown wrestler gimmick over with fans…Borne was fired from the WWF for continued drug abuse violations. It was then, that Paul Heyman and ECW came calling in 1994. At the time, ECW was just emerging as a red hot promotion for its hardcore, straight ahead and in your face style of pro wrestling. With that said, here comes Matt Borne into ECW as what else…..Doink the wrestling clown. Not exactly what the hardcore, rabid fans of Philadelphia wanted to see…but Paul Heyman had something else up his sleeve. With the ECW’s version of Doink getting real heat (Not the good kind either) he was served up to the much more acceptable and popular wrestlers of the time Shane Douglas and 911. That’s when Borne’s new gimmick started to form. Matt Borne’s character began having a mental breakdown after his time in the WWF as a clown and not getting taken serio