WWE Rumor Roundup: Retired veteran gets medical clearance, new US title design, Kairi Sane heath update - 16th December 2019

#4. Update on Buddy Murphy's push

Buddy Murphy faced Aleister Black at TLC and was defeated at the end of a solid back-and-forth contest.

Dave Meltzer opened up about the former Cruiserweight Champion's push on the most recent edition of the Wrestling Observer Radio.

Meltzer alluded to the fact that Paul Heyman still thinks highly of Murphy and the plan is to make him a key player on RAW in the future.

Murphy was nothing but a glorified enhancement talent on SmackDown but the officials on RAW see him in a different light.

Here's what Meltzer had to say about the former 205 Live Superstar:

"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,

You know, he’s not a key guy yet, he’s planned to be, he lost here, but that’s fine, it was a good match."