DIY vs Motor City Machine Guns can revive tag team wrestling in WWE

Wrestling fans across the board have been praying for the revival of tag team wrestling. Both WWE and All Elite Wrestling spent the last year minimizing the tag divisions. Even though both promotions feature rosters packed with talent in that department, the titles have felt secondary to everything else going on. However, on WWE SmackDown, there’s an angle that can light a fire in tag wrestling in the biggest company in the industry. That is DIY versus the Motor City Machine Guns.

Fans were concerned when Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley signed to WWE. The company doesn’t have the greatest track record with how it treats performers built in other companies. The last two to three years doesn’t make up for decades of mismanagement. Especially when it comes to the tag division.

But the company didn’t make that mistake with MCMG. Within two weeks of their debut, they’d defeat The Bloodline to take the tag team titles. Along the way, they defeated DIY in what was a highly anticipated match.

After that, the story circled right back to Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano. In what was an interesting start, it looked like Ciampa was headed for a heel turn of some sort. But both he and Gargano made the switch, reverting to perhaps their most captivating heel characters while in WWE NXT. They did so, snatching away the tag titles along the way. Now, fans are watching closely to see how this feud develops from here.

MCMG versus DIY has the potential to be the top tag team feud in recent years. Sabin, Shelley, Gargano, and Ciampa are four of the best workers and minds in professional wrestling today. They each have several entries in their catalog that are immediate highlights. Putting all four of them together, letting their minds develop the angle, and their bodies do the work in the ring is a perfect equation to get people invested in the WWE tag team division.

The titles have been stuck as side items on both SmackDown and Monday Night Raw. While Raw still needs work as Judgment Day holds the titles, this angle on SmackDown will get things moving in the right direction. Get excited for tag team wrestling in WWE.