Motor City Machine Guns made their return to All Elite Wrestling during Thursday night’s AEW Collision taping in Detroit. The appearance brought Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin back to AEW in front of a hometown crowd at the Masonic Temple.
The veteran tag team is closely tied to Metro Detroit, which gave the comeback extra meaning for local wrestling fans. The headline moment also leaned into the city’s identity, with the duo’s return framed as a Detroit-flavored welcome back.
Shelley and Sabin have long been recognized as one of pro wrestling’s notable tag teams, so their reappearance is a meaningful development for AEW’s tag division. Even from the limited details available, the return stands out as a major moment from the Detroit taping.
For fans at the Masonic Temple, the night delivered a familiar team on a familiar stage in their home region. Motor City Machine Guns returning to AEW in Detroit gave the Collision event a strong local connection and one of its most notable moments.
