WWE ‘signs greatest tag team ever’ and overjoyed fans think ‘hell froze over’

WWE has reportedly yet signed Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin, champion known arsenic the Motor City Machine Guns, and fans are stunned.

The sports amusement juggernaut is said to person landed the 2 erstwhile satellite champions, who are hailed arsenic 1 of the top tag teams of each clip aft archetypal forming successful 2006 and taking TNA Wrestling by storm.

The duo near TNA earlier this twelvemonth and person spent immoderate clip connected the autarkic country with their wrestling aboriginal being the root of overmuch speculation, with fans wondering if they’d extremity up connected WWE’s Raw, SmackDown oregon NXT, oregon adjacent rival AEW.

However, it’s present reported by assorted outlets that the woody is done and bosses Triple H and Nick Khan person landed 1 of the astir influential acts of the past 2 decades.

According to PWInsider, sources person confirmed MCMG person signed connected the dotted line, with the second reporting that they volition beryllium debuting connected NXT and astatine slightest having an archetypal tally connected the brand.

Meanwhile, Fightful besides revealed the news, adding that contempt ‘some originative pitches’ from Tony Khan’s All Elite Wrestling, thing materialised.

‘Never thought I would spot them successful WWE. Hell has froze over,’ said @treybo12, portion @CoolitSilky added: ‘Bang!! Never thought I’d spot the day. This Triple H epoch is god-tier.’

‘MCMG regularisation harder than most. One of the top tag teams ever and each azygous amusement they’re connected is amended for it,’ wrote X idiosyncratic @thebenjosays arsenic fans reacted to the report.

‘I deliberation MCMG lowkey is the top tag squad of each time, everyone owes some of them astatine slightest something,’ tweeted @CCRazer, arsenic @WrestlingFan_75 added: ‘MCMG are 1 of the top tag teams to ne'er wrestle successful WWE I’m gladsome they get the accidental to beryllium however bully they are.’

The quality comes aft WWE already managed to motion Giulia, Stephanie Vaquer and Ethan Page for NXT and The Bloodline’s Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa and Jacob Fatu for SmackDown.

There is besides a batch of speculation that AEW tag squad Lucha Bros are connected their mode to WWE, portion the likes of Bobby Lashley and Ricochet person near successful caller weeks and months respectively.

Sabin and Shelley archetypal started teaming unneurotic successful 2006, with appearances successful Ring of Honor and PWG, earlier officially forming arsenic a duo successful TNA the pursuing year, wherever they became three-time satellite tag squad champions, portion they person each held the satellite and X-Division titles.

Shelley wrestled for WWE earlier after having a precise little stint with the institution successful 2020 arsenic portion of that year’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.

Sabin, a 10-time X-Division Champion, was brought successful arsenic a impermanent manager at the Performance Center successful 2019, but helium was ne'er signed and ended up focusing connected his TNA vocation astatine the time.

‘I was determination for a week, got to spell down and spot the facility, spot however everything works. It was an amazing, ace chill experience,’ helium told Metro.co.uk.

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