A vignette that aired during Friday night's episode of SmackDown was reportedly teasing the debut of longtime TNA tag team the Motor City Machine Guns.

According to PWInsider.com (h/t H Jenkins of Ringside News), Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley are set to arrive soon in WWE in conjunction with the vignette.

PWInsider.com's Mike Johnson reported that the original plan called for the Motor City Machine Guns to debut in NXT rather than on the main roster, but they were not present for the debut episode of NXT on The CW in Chicago this week as was originally expected.

Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp disputed the NXT report, noting that the Motor City Machine Guns were never slated for a run in WWE's developmental brand.

The vignette got people talking and speculating on social media Friday, as it featured a car driving through a city with several abrupt cuts:

By slowing down and pausing the vignette, it appears as though several buildings and monuments specific to Detroit are featured.

Both Sabin and Shelley are from the Detroit area, hence the tag team name of the Motor City Machine Guns.

Sabin and Shelley began teaming together back in 2006, and they made their TNA debut in 2007. They went on to enjoy successful runs as a team in TNA, Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro-Wrestling in the years that followed.

The Motor City Machine Guns are three-time TNA world tag team champions, one-time ROH world tag team champions and one-time IWGP junior heavyweight and NJPW Strong openweight team team champions.

Sabin and Shelley had a great deal of individual success as well with each holding the TNA Heavyweight Championship once.

After spending some time apart, the Motor City Machine Guns reunited in TNA in 2020 and re-established themselves as one of the top tag teams in the world.

Sabin and Shelley are 42 and 41 years old, respectively, but they are finally set to get their shot on the biggest stage in pro wrestling.

Putting them on the main roster speaks to how highly WWE leadership thinks of them, and it suggests they will have a chance to inject even more life into a SmackDown tag team division that has been on the rise with The Bloodline, DIY, The Street Profits and A-Town Down Under leading the way.

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