Motor City Machine Guns & Josh Alexander to Challenge for NEVER 6-Man Championships

Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin and Josh Alexander will team-up at Ryogoku Sumo Hall on October 9th to challenge for the NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championships

By: James Carlin

Three-time IMPACT World Tag Team champions, former IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team champions, and former NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Team champions. The Motor City Machine Guns return to Japan for the first time in seven years, when they challenged the Young Bucks for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles at Ariake Coliseum in August 2016.

Their trio is rounded out with the former and longest reigning IMPACT World Champion Josh Alexander, who very surprisingly makes his Japan debut in this match. However, he’s no stranger to tag team action, having teamed with AEW’s Ethan Page under multiple different names over the years.

After a hard-fought and well-deserved victory by the Motor City Machine Guns, @fakekinkade was just as surprised as Palladium Times Square that @TigerHattoriNY crowned them NEW #njpwSTRONG Openweight Tag-Team Champs! pic.twitter.com/muGs7LUBhY

— Monthly Puroresu (@MonthlyPuroresu) October 29, 2022

This incredible set of challenges comes after Hiroshi Tanahashi made an appeal backstage on September 9th, asking for a trio from IMPACT to face himself, Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii. It was only last month that Alex Shelley retained his IMPACT World Championship against Tanahashi at Multiverse United 2, and it seems that The Ace wants revenge for his loss not only on Shelley, but the rest of IMPACT Wrestling as well.

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