8 Wrestlers Triple H Can’t Get Over In WWE
7. Motor City Machine Guns
This is less about Alex Shelley or Chris Sabin and more about the deterioration of the SmackDown tag division over the last 12 months. Nevertheless, the Motor City Machine Guns had the option to sign for AEW or WWE when their TNA contracts expired in 2024, and WWE's treatment of the legendary tag team across most of 2025 and all of 2026 will have tribal fans of Tony Khan’s killer tag division feeling mighty smug right now.
It all started brilliantly for MCMG. Their entrance was flashy, their wrestling felt fresh for a new audience, and winning the tag straps from The Bloodline in only their third match for WWE made them instantly feel like a big deal. They lost the titles to #DIY in December ’24, but were still featured in a marquee match at the 2025 Royal Rumble, where The Street Profits cost them in a '2 Out Of 3 Falls' match against the new champions.
The SmackDown tag division should have felt aggrieved at being left off last year’s WrestleMania, and that feeling would only strengthen when MCMG were part of a sensational TLC match on the 25 April 2025 episode of SmackDown with The Profits and #DIY that followed the biggest show of the year.
Since then, Shelley and Sabin have become an afterthought.
They haven’t challenged for the tag titles since that match, and they've wrestled on SmackDown just 3 times in the past 5 months. The duo have been relegated to being supporting cast for Johnny Gargano’s planking angle. It’s beneath their talents, and you really couldn’t blame them if they were regretting their decision to sign with WWE.