The Motor City Machine Guns

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The Motor City Machine Guns
Chris Sabin (left) and Alex Shelley in December 2008.
Details
Members	Alex Shelley Chris Sabin
Name(s)	Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin The Echo Boomers The Milennials Motor City Machine Guns† Murder City Machine Guns† Panic in Detroit
Heights	Sabin: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Shelley: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Combined weight	420 lb (190 kg)
Hometown	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Debut	August 25, 2006
Disbanded	May 2012
Promotions	2CW AAW BCW CAPW IWC JAPW LWA NJPW PWG ROH TNA UPCW UWA XICW ZERO1

The Motor City Machine Guns was a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Alex Shelley
Chris Sabin. The team is best known for its work in the American company Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where they are former TNA World Tag Team Champions. The team name, which has been variably Motor and Murder City, is a play on the nickname of Detroit, the hometown of both Shelley and Sabin.

Career

Origins

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Debut and feud with Team 3D (2007–2008)

Various storylines (2008–2010)

World Tag Team Championship reign (2010–2011)

Return (2012)

Ring of Honor (2007–2008, 2010)

New Japan Pro Wrestling (2009, 2010)

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

• All American Wrestling
  • AAW Tag Team Championship (1 time)

• New Japan Pro Wrestling
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time)

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI Tag Team of the Year (2010)

• Pro Wrestling Report
  • Tag Team of the Year (2010)

• Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX
  • ZERO1-MAX International Lightweight Tag Team Championship (1 time)

• Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  • TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time)
  • TNA X Division Championship (2 times) – Sabin (1) and Shelley (1)
  • Tag Team of the Year (2007)

• Ring of Honor
  • ROH World Tag Team Championship (1 time

Outside of wrestling

Notes and references

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