The Motor City Machine Guns are the right team to build around

The Motor City Machine Guns became the WWE Tag Team Champions on the October 25 episode of WWE SmackDown. To do so, the team defeated both DIY and The Bloodline. Some fans are looking at this as an indication that WWE is set to begin improving the booking around the tag team division. Many have called to see this happen sooner, rather than later. If that is the case, MCMG is the perfect team to start this trend.

Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley are two of the best professional wrestlers in the world today. Their resumes speak for themselves, both as individuals and a tag team. If WWE is truly going to start investing in this division more, this is the duo to do it with.

Think about some of the feuds and matches that are possible. Of course, there are rematches against both The Bloodline and DIY on the horizon. Pretty Deadly and the Street Profits are right there on the SmackDown roster as well. The Friday night show is packed with viable tag teams for future angles surrounding the championship. The point is that these angles need to be built with the titles as a prize at the center of them. WWE has long treated the tag team titles as secondary stories within a bigger angle. That must change.

Even beyond just SmackDown. There are several, top-tier teams that would have excellent engagements with MCMG. This is an opportunity for WWE to remind wrestling fans what tag team wrestling looks like in this promotion.

Another aspect of this conversation is that MCMG moved over to WWE and many were concerned about how they would be booked. Would WWE leverage this duo in the right way? Would they be yet another name on the list of misses that have come through the company like Kushida or Sareee? That doesn’t seem to be the case and that speaks loudly to potential free agents on the horizon.

Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley are WWE tag team champions. That’s a statement few would have expected to say at the start of 2024. Yet, it is one that makes sense if this promotion is looking change the perspective of tag team wrestling.