WWE: Five First Feuds For Buddy Murphy on SmackDown

Daniel Bryan

Buddy Murphy is a heel right now. He also has never appeared on SmackDown Live, so let’s keep all that a secret, shall we? For the purposes of this article, let’s just say that Murphy goes face from his arrival in the same way that Bobby Roode did.

But better, obviously.

Daniel Bryan is a starmaker at the moment, playing a role similar to that of The Miz when he was a heel or even John Cena in recent years. Would the rise of Kofi Kingston have been anywhere near as effective without the hard work of Daniel Bryan putting him over? I suppose we’ll never know now but we can certainly see him at work again.

Right now, Bryan needs to get his heat back. He’s been the fall guy in the Kofi Kingston story and has suffered a number of major losses along the way. He hasn’t appeared since WrestleMania and could benefit from this feud as much as Murphy would.

So how might this happen? Well the most obvious option – the whole life of excess that Bryan hates so much – doesn’t really seem to fit Murphy much. Maybe let’s be a little simpler and just make this one all about wrestling?

Murphy has a penchant for gold but he also goes hunting for the best. For me I’d keep it plain. Murphy debuts and calls out Bryan. Bryan, still smarting from his big losses, is not particularly eager to show his face early on but is eventually drawn out by Murphy’s increasingly anti planet rhetoric. Murphy beats Rowan en route to the actual match but this is both Murphy’s debut feud and Bryan’s big return.

This would be a short one but you don’t get much more top quality opposition than the original and greatest B plus player.

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