Rumor Roundup: Long-Term Push Planned For RAW Superstar, Possible Royal Rumble Winners, More

1) Long-Term Push Planned For RAW Superstar

According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, Paul Heyman is really high on Buddy Murphy as a talent.

Meltzer says that it will take time but there are plans to push Murphy in the long-term. Here is what Meltzer said:

Murphy is getting pushed now, but when he was on SmackDown, he was a non-existent person and he always lost. So to rehab a guy, it takes, you know, when you had a guy who was buried underground, and you know, he was on one side where the side thought that there was nothing to the guy, and he goes to another side where the guy who is the showrunner, whatever the guy is, the booker, the creator (Paul Heyman), whatever, thinks really highly of him.

And you know, he is really good and then you start pushing him. It takes a while, you just can’t snap your fingers and go, ‘hey, forget everything that you saw for a year when we did nothing with him.’ So it’s going to take some time, because when he was in 205 Live, he did very well, and then he came to SmackDown and you know, they just didn’t see anything in him. So now they are trying to do something,

My Take:

  • I am a big fan of Murphy so this is great news. He is a fantastic in-ring worker and I am excited to see him develop more on the character side of things.

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