WWE veteran reveals biggest issue with Motor City Machine Guns (Exclusive)

Modified Feb 08, 2025 08:05 GMT

Motor City Machine Guns at a WWE event (Image via WWE.com).

Motor City Machine Guns may be former WWE tag team champions, but fans feel they aren't being presented on television like they should be. It appears an industry veteran has a solution to the problem.

During a recent episode of BroDown on Backstage Pass, Vince Russo was asked why the Motor City Machine Guns weren't clicking with the WWE Universe. Here's how Russo reponded:

"The first thing you got to do, Mac, is you've got to create their characters where they're different individuals. They just can't be wrestlers. All we know about Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley right now, and we're like three months in, all we know is they're wrestlers. That's all we know."

He continued:

"How? Why? There are 30 wrestlers on this show. I'm not going to care about you just because you're a wrestler. There's got to be some type of a connection. I need to know about Sabin. I need to know about Shelley. We don't know anything about any of these people." [19:31 onwards]

Connecting with the fans doesn't seem to be the only issue Motor City Machine Guns have on their plate. The veteran tag team had to watch Pretty Deadly become the new number-one contenders for the titles this week on SmackDown. Fans will have to wait to see if Shelley and Sabin get back in the tag team title picture.

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Manik Aftab writes Exclusive articles for Sportskeeda Wrestling’s WWE division. A BA (Hons) in English Literature helped him improve his writing skills before starting his career as a pro wrestling writer.

Before joining Sportskeeda, Aftab worked for Ringside News and The Sportster, where his wrestling articles and feature pieces consistently ranked on the first page of Google SERPs.

He prioritizes accuracy, relevance, and ethics in his reporting by conducting thorough research, verifying sources, and adhering to professional journalistic standards.

While Aftab’s favorite wrestler in AEW is Hangman Adam Page, he doesn’t have a favorite in WWE yet. However, he considers Stone Cold Steve Austin to be the greatest professional wrestler of all time. His earliest memory of watching pro wrestling was when The Rock faced The New Age Outlaws in a handicap match, but it was the John Cena vs. Edge match from Unforgiven 2006 that got him hooked. If given the chance to manage a star from the Attitude Era, he would choose The British Bulldog, as he believes Davey Boy Smith was a terrific worker and could've benefitted from having a mouthpiece for his lack of mic skills.

When not watching pro wrestling, Aftab enjoys reading science fiction and watching anime.

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Edited by Rahul Madurawe