WWE Rumors: Motor City Machine Guns to Debut on SmackDown After Viral Video Teaser | News, scores, highlights, stats and rumors

A vignette that aired during Friday night’s episode of SmackDown reportedly teased the debut of longtime TNA tag team, the Motor City Machine Guns.

According to PWInsider.com (h/t H Jenkins of Ringside News), Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley will soon arrive in WWE in conjunction with the vignette.

Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com reported that the original plan called for the Motor City Machine Guns to debut in NXT instead of on the main roster, but they were not present on this week’s debut episode of NXT on The CW in Chicago as originally was expected. .

Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp disputed the NXT report, noting that the Motor City Machine Guns were never slated for a run in WWE’s developmental brand.

The vignette got people talking and speculating on social media on Friday, as it featured a car driving through a city with several abrupt cuts:

By slowing down and pausing the vignette, it appears as if several buildings and landmarks specific to Detroit are shown.

Both Sabin and Shelley are from the Detroit area, hence the tag team name of the Motor City Machine Guns.

Sabin and Shelley began working together in 2006 and they made their TNA debut in 2007. They enjoyed successful runs as a team in TNA, Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro-Wrestling in the years that followed.

The Motor City Machine Guns are three-time TNA World Tag Team Champions, one-time ROH World Tag Team Champions, and one-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight and NJPW Strong Openweight Team Team Champions.

Sabin and Shelley also had a lot of individual success, each capturing the TNA Heavyweight Championship once.

After being separated for some time, the Motor City Machine Guns reunited in TNA in 2020 and re-established themselves as one of the best tag teams in the world.

Sabin and Shelley are 42 and 41 years old respectively, but they are finally ready to take their shot on the biggest stage in professional wrestling.

Placing them on the main roster makes it clear how highly WWE leadership thinks of them, and suggests they will have a chance to breathe even more life into a SmackDown tag team division that is on the rise with The Bloodline, DIY, The Street Profits and A-Town Down Under are leading the way.

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