{"id":25163,"date":"2018-09-04T20:38:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T00:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=25163"},"modified":"2018-09-04T20:38:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T00:38:29","slug":"cruiserweight-title-defense-set-for-super-show-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/09\/04\/cruiserweight-title-defense-set-for-super-show-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruiserweight Title Defense Set for Super Show-Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWE announced last week that on Saturday, October 6th, at <em><strong>WWE Super Show-Down<\/strong><\/em>, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the Cruiserweight Champion <strong>Cedric Alexander<\/strong> will defend his title against Melbourne native <strong>Buddy Murphy<\/strong>. Murphy, formerly known as <strong>Matt Silva<\/strong> when he wrestled on the Australian independent scene, will no doubt be cheered as the homecoming hero, despite being the heel in this match. He wrestled for <strong>Melbourne City Wrestling (MCW)<\/strong> from 2010 to 2013 where he had a stint with the MCW Heavyweight Championship before signing with NXT. There, he was grouped with <strong>Wesley Blake<\/strong> and <strong>Alexa Bliss<\/strong>, but Bliss went solo and was called up to the main roster, and the team of Blake and Murphy stalled after their 219 reign as NXT Tag Team Champions, and eventually he came up to <strong>205 Live<\/strong> beginning in February of this year. He previously challenged Alexander for the title back in May, but he was unsuccessful in the attempt. Their match, however, has been said by some to be the best match in <em>205 Live<\/em> all year. Buddy Murphy also had an excellent performance against <strong>Mustafa Ali<\/strong> in July in a No Disqualification match, and more recently, he\u2019s coming off a great win against <strong>Kalisto<\/strong> on the latest episode of 205 Live. In front of his hometown, you can assume he\u2019ll put on a similarly stellar performance at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds when WWE goes Down Under.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MCW Full Match - Slex vs. Matt Silva (Vendetta 2012)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xf6tJinGres?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The champion Alexander is in a quagmire with <strong>Drew Gulak<\/strong>, who has been nipping at his heels for a month now. Gulak has been demanding a rematch with Alexander to avenge his loss to him on the <em><strong>SummerSlam<\/strong><\/em> Kick-Off Show. Alexander\u2019s attention may be divided going into this title match at Super Show-Down, and it\u2019ll be interesting to see how that plays out into this angle going forward, and if Alexander will indeed be feuding with both men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE announced last week that on Saturday, October 6th, at WWE Super Show-Down, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the Cruiserweight Champion Cedric Alexander will defend his title against Melbourne native Buddy Murphy. Murphy, formerly known as Matt Silva when he wrestled on the Australian independent scene, will no doubt be cheered as the homecoming hero, despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2483,"featured_media":25369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[316,2,3],"tags":[1703,69,3393,1677,1713,606,3392],"class_list":["post-25163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-205live","category-featured","category-wwe-universe","tag-buddy-murphy","tag-cedric-alexander","tag-matt-silva","tag-mcw","tag-melbourne-city-wrestling","tag-wwe-cruiserweight-championship","tag-wwe-super-showdown"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}