pethuman5

The thing with MCMG is that they aren't exactly "TNA-only" wrestlers. They are regulars on the indy scene as well, and for some reason I think that "The Motor (or Murder) City Machine Guns" are more marketable on the indy scene than Sabin or Shelly as singles stars. In other words, I have a feeling that Sabin & Shelley make more money on the indy scene as a tag team than they did as singles wrestlers. Now this is just my gut feeling, as I have no hard evidence to back that up. But in my opinion, "Motor/Murder City Machine Guns vs. Briscoes" is far more marketable than, for example, Alex Shelley vs. Jimmy Jacobs or Chris Sabin vs. Tyler Black. But I could be wrong there.

Personally, I see no reason to actually break them up. They can each have singles pushes in TNA without ending the tag team. MCMG (along with LAX and Miz/Morrison) are among the best tag teams since the Hardyz v Dudleys v Edge/Christian heyday. I hated when WWE broke up the Dudleys, tho admittedly breaking up Edge and Christian worked out very well for both of those guys. TNA can maintain their tag team relationship while at the same time using them more often as singles wrestlers (much like WWE does with the Hardys). But don't break up any more great tag teams. MCMG, LAX, Miz/Morrison...there just are not nearly enough good tag teams in wrestling. Tag Team Wrestling has been on life-support for too long. More setbacks like breaking up more tag teams could be the death-knell of the division.