In the middle of his run as one-half of the Raw tag champions, Buddy Murphy will now be promoted as just ‘Murphy’.
POST Wrestling learned of the alteration through several sources in the company that were notified of the change moving forward.
Murphy, real name Matthew Adams, has been wrestling as Buddy Murphy since entering NXT in 2013 where he won the tag titles with Wesley Blake. In 2018, Murphy was brought up to 205 Live where he became Cruiserweight champion.
Last year, he was drafted to Raw and has been part of Seth Rollins’ faction alongside AOP. Murphy and Rollins recently won the Raw tag titles from the Viking Raiders.
Why? Do normal people talk like this? Can you imagine Michael Jordan only being referred to as “His Royal Airness” Jordan… it would get old fast. But, that’s what wrestling fans get.
And they will have a crappy nickname to force in at every possible moment. “It’s Seth’s disciple Murphy!” After every spot.
God, can they just talk like people?
The long term plan is this,Velveteen dream is brought up to Raw under his real name of Patrick Clark,he then has it shortened to Paddy and forms a tag team with Murphy.Around the same time Cesaro and Sheamus reunite.
This all comes to a conclusion at Summerslam when, wait for it,