Buddy Murphy is counting down the days until he’s released from his contractual obligations to WWE.
Murphy shared the following videos on social media, a two-part vignette that shows him locked up inside a prison. Former WWE on-air talent Josiah Williams is featured as a prison doctor, welcoming a photographer who is on-site to visit Murphy. References are made to his WWE tenure (which ran eight years, with a 90-day non-compete clause being attached) before saying he’s ready to be released and closing with a “to be continued…” graphic.
Murphy was released by WWE on June 2; he will be free of his 90-day non-compete clause on August 31.
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Murphy recently spoke with Chris Van Vliet about how he’s mapping out his plan during his non-compete clause, noting that the timeframe is designed to kill your buzz before you go somewhere else, but he’s being strategic about it.
“The 90 days is to kill all buzz and all hype,” Murphy said. “It’s so you don’t have any momentum when you go somewhere else. I’m not going to blow my load in the first week. I have to expand it over the 3 months. That’s why I drop the progress photo. Then I will drop something else. I feel like they hoard a lot of talent, and now they are saturating the talent. It is a business move I believe they are making. If you send out 3 guys, they can do what they want. If you send out 40 guys, the work gets cut. But wrestling can boom again. Now the pandemic is ending, more talent can go to the indies, and the fans can see it all.”
