The Motor City Machine Guns are off AEW television again, and fans have started asking why. After disappearing for nearly a month following their debut, returning at All In and wrestling on Collision two weeks ago, Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin have once again been absent from TV.
That question came up during the post-AEW Dynamite show when a viewer asked Sean Ross Sapp why the newly signed duo had seemingly vanished again despite arriving in AEW with plenty of momentum.
According to Sapp, Shelley and Sabin had already spoken with AEW about finishing the tour dates they had committed to before signing with the company. He also revealed that the Motor City Machine Guns weren’t even pushing to debut on the Detroit episode of Collision before AEW decided that was the right place to introduce them.
“So, they had made it kind of clear to AEW they wanted to do their tour first, and they didn’t, I don’t even think they were necessarily that eager to debut on the Detroit episode, and AEW were like, ‘No, this is where we should debut you.’”
Sapp wasn’t criticizing AEW for letting them honor those commitments. His issue was what happened after that. In his view, the company could have kept Shelley and Sabin in front of viewers without asking them to be backstage every Wednesday.
“You could have been more crafty about it. You could have literally sent a camera crew to Detroit, filmed them on the streets of Detroit, showing why they love it so much, what it means to them. Talk each week, one minute. They talk about the Young Bucks, FTR, Cope and Christian. They talk about these other teams and why it is important that they prove themselves against these teams, New Level, all that. Find a way to get them on TV for one minute a week.”
The Motor City Machine Guns have already made it clear they’re aiming for the top of AEW’s tag team division. Whenever Shelley and Sabin return on a full-time basis, they’ll be stepping back into a division stacked with teams like FTR, The Young Bucks, Cope & Christian and New Level, with no shortage of big matches waiting for them.
Do you think AEW should have kept the Motor City Machine Guns on TV with pre-taped segments, or has the stop-and-start rollout hurt their momentum? Let us know in the comments.
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