Why The Motor City Machine Guns Chose WWE Over AEW

For a long time now the Motor City Machine Guns have been one of the top tag teams in wrestling and they finally made their WWE debut a few weeks ago. It didn’t take long for the Motor City Machine Guns to establish themselves as the team to beat on SmackDown as they quickly defeated The Bloodline to win the WWE Tag Team Titles.

Over the last few months there was a lot of talk about both AEW and WWE being interested in Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin. During a recent episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer talked about their decision to sign with WWE noting that the company ultimately made them a better offer.

“WWE is the one that made the better offer. They went to the better offer. Whether it’s more money or whether it’s a better storyline that they were suggested, I don’t know. I know that they were interested in both sides, talked to both sides. I didn’t get the impression that AEW, when Tony has people he really wants, he often gets them because he makes an offer, Danny Garcia is just an example, he makes an offer big enough to where he gets him.

That doesn’t always work. He didn’t get Andrade, didn’t get Jade again. But Sabin and Shelly, my impression of Sabin and Shelly was that they were looking to get a good job, a good, well-paying job in the wrestling business and just go somewhere and get good exposure.

I don’t think that there was a necessarily we’re going to WWE and nothing else. I don’t think so, because I’d heard about talks with both sides. Most of the time I heard that it was more likely WWE, and it ended up being WWE.”

H/T Inside The Ropes