The Motor City Machine Guns are the new number one contenders to the AEW World Tag Team Championship.
Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin defeated Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler of FTR on Wednesday’s Dynamite in the fifth and deciding match of their best-of-five series to win it 3-2.
Shelley scored the win for his team at the last second. After he escaped a second Spike Piledriver, Shelley reversed FTR’s Shatter Machine attempt into a sunset flip that sent Wheeler to the floor, and he pinned Harwood. FTR and MCMG shook hands after the match as a show of respect and put an end to their feud.
The Motor City Machine Guns will face the winners of the match between AEW World Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) and Mark Davis and Jake Doyle of the Don Callis Family. The title match is set for Saturday’s Full Gear at the Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Should they win the titles, Shelley and Sabin would become the only team to have won the tag team titles in AEW, WWE, TNA, and ROH.
Sabin has made it clear that winning the AEW World Tag Team titles is the ultimate goal for the team. Speaking with MuscleManMalcolm on YouTube recently, he revealed he wants to face The Young Bucks again, a team the Guns wrestled many times in TNA and PWG.
“We just had the best chemistry, and we just want to reignite that feud again,” Sabin said.
Shelley and Sabin won a best-of-five series in TNA back in 2010. In that series, they defeated Beer Money (James Storm and Robert Roode) and retained the TNA World Tag Team Championship.