Motor City Machine Guns
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Chris Sabin (left) and Alex Shelley (right) in February 2016 | |
| Tag team | |
| Members | Alex Shelley Chris Sabin |
| Name(s) | Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin Motor City Machine Guns Murder City Machine Guns |
| Billed heights | Sabin: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Shelley: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Combined billed weight | 420 lb (190 kg) |
| Hometown | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Debut | August 25, 2006 |
| Years active | 2006–2012 2016–2018 2020–2021 2022–present |
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The Motor City Machine Guns are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin. They are signed to WWE, where they perform on the SmackDown brand. They are best known for their tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The team name is a play on "Motor City", a nickname for the two's hometown of Detroit.
Originally forming a team in Pro Wrestling Zero1 in 2006, Shelley and Sabin started teaming up more frequently later that year in TNA until Shelley left TNA in 2012. During this first run, they won the TNA World Tag Team Championship once as well as New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. The two reformed Motor City Machine Guns in 2016 in Ring of Honor, where they won the ROH World Tag Team Championship, until Shelley retired from wrestling in 2018.
In 2020, the Motor City Machine Guns made their return to pro wrestling, working with several promotions including TNA and NJPW (where they won the Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship). In 2024, they signed with WWE, where they quickly won the WWE Tag Team Championship. With this win, they became the first tag team to win championships in WWE, TNA, ROH, and NJPW. The team also was named as the Tag Team of the Year in 2010 by both Pro Wrestling Illustrated and The Baltimore Sun.