Motor City Machine Guns sign new contracts with Impact Wrestling

The Motor City Machine Guns are locked into new contracts with Impact Wrestling.

Sports Illustrated reported on Thursday that Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin have re-signed with Impact Wrestling. The terms of their new contracts were not revealed.

“We still love pro wrestling,” Shelley told SI. “We’re still excited about it, and we love wrestling for Impact — and that chance to work with the Impact locker room.”

“Impact is like family to us,” Sabin said. “[Impact president] Scott D’Amore was my trainer. It’s home.”

Shelley & Sabin have held the Impact Tag Team titles together three times. Their first reign began in 2010 and their most recent reign ended just last month.

Motor City Machine Guns will get another shot at the Impact Tag Team titles in a four-way match at Impact and NJPW’s Multiverse United event in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 30. Ace Austin & Chris Bey are defending their titles against Shelley & Sabin, Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis), and TMDK (Shane Haste & Bad Dude Tito).

Shelley noted that this is the first full-time wrestling contract he’s signed in almost five years:

This is the first full-time pro wrestling contract I’ve signed in almost five years. I pursued physical medicine, and earning that degree was something I needed to prove to myself. Once I had that security and that confidence, I wanted to be back in Impact. It has the most familial bond. There are people here that have seen me grow up from a teenager to a grown-ass man. That’s special to me.

And some of the best in the world are right here. There aren’t better wrestlers on the planet than ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey, Jonathan Gresham, Kushida and Chris Sabin. I could go on and on –Frankie Kazarian, Trey Miguel, Black Taurus. These guys are phenomenal.

Shelley & Sabin are teaming with Kushida in a six-man tag match against Impact World Champion Josh Alexander, Rich Swann & Frankie Kazarian at Sacrifice this Friday night.

Outside of Impact, Shelley & Sabin are the current NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Champions and GCW Tag Team Champions.