Motor City Machine Guns and Lucha Bros would bring a much needed boost to WWE

There’s been a lot of talk about tag team wrestling in both AEW and WWE. Recently, the biggest promotions in North American wrestling haven’t done the best job to highlight their tag divisions. In WWE, the tag titles are secondary props in major storylines. The prevalence of the tag division may be headed for a change in WWE, as there are growing rumors that two of the best teams in the industry are heading that way.

In the last few weeks there have been several conflicting reports about the Motor City Machine Guns and Lucha Brothers. On August 13, Fightful Select reported that “Penta and Rey Fenix appear to be poised to head to WWE.” This came after days of back and forth on whether the duo was actually coming, accusations of contract tampering, false reports and much more. According to Fightful, Pentagon already had conversations with WWE and the company has been interested in Fenix as well.

The rumors around the Motor City Machine Guns have been just as rampant. Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley’s contracts with TNA Wrestling came to an end on April 1, 2024. Initial thoughts were that they’d head to AEW, which would make sense as they appeared in that company back in 2022. However, that momentum changed as rumors grew, they’d head to WWE. No new news has come up in the weeks since those early thoughts, but fans of both companies are hoping they will pop up in either promotion.

If WWE is where they turn up, adding MCMG and Lucha Brothers are a huge boost to a tag division that needs it. While WWE doesn’t do the greatest job booking its tag division, it is stacked with some great teams. Groups like DIY, The Creed Brothers, Legado del Fantasma, New Catch Republic, Pretty Deadly, The Street Profits, The New Day, Axiom and Nathan Frazer, and a host of others are ready to welcome them with open arms.

The hope would be that MCMG and Lucha Brothers are utilized in a way that will allow them to not only show off what all their fans know, but also inject some excitement in those divisions. In many ways, this would be a final chance of sorts to garner any trust from fans and viewers that there’s intention in the booking of the tag team division. If the Lucha Bros are thrown into angles with other Latino wrestlers or MCMG are jobbed out to other, less popular groups, fans are going to be loud with their criticism. And they would be right.

Yet, there’s hope that if they do so up in WWE, they will bring much-needed energy to that promotion. As teams and as individuals, the four men in MCMG and the Lucha Bros are some of the best in the industry today and a strong boost to any roster.