Matt Osborne
| Matt Osborne | |
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Osborne in 1999.
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| Birth name | Matthew Wade Osborne |
| Born |
July 27, 1957 Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Died | June 28, 2013 (aged 55) Plano, Texas |
| Cause of death | Drug overdose |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Big Bubba Big Josh Borne Again Doink the Clown Great Mustapha Matthew Borne Reborne Again |
| Billed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Billed weight | 243 lb (110 kg) |
| Billed from |
Ellwood City, Pennsylvania Parts Unknown |
| Trained by | Tony Borne |
| Debut | 1978 |
Matthew Wade "Matt" Osborne (July 27, 1957 – June 28, 2013) was an American professional wrestler. Osborne was a second generation wrestler, the son of Tony Borne, and is best known as being the first and longest-running wrestler to portray the character of Doink the Clown.
Under the ring name Matt Borne, Osborne debuted on December 6, 1978 and wrestled for various National Wrestling Alliance territories, most prominently for Pacific Northwest Wrestling, where he was their heavyweight and four-time tag champion. In Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling on June 6, 1980, he won his first championship, also the first of two tag titles he would hold with Buzz Sawyer. In Mid-South Wrestling, he allied with Ted DiBiase and Jim Duggan as a member of The Rat Pack, a heel stable, and won their tag title with DiBiase. In Canada, he worked for All Star Wrestling and Maple Leaf Wrestling.
Borne debuted in the WWF on March 2, 1985, wrestling Rick McGraw to a time-limit draw in the Boston Garden. He was primarily a jobber, though occasionally beat other jobbers at house shows. The highlight of this stint was losing to Ricky Steamboat at the first WrestleMania in Madison Square Garden. His last match was a loss to George Wells in the Cow Palace on April 29, 1986.
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