LAST night's Impact Wrestling featured the return of one of the most talented tag teams in pro wrestling today, the Motor City Machine Guns. With their return, will the sinking tag team division of TNA flounder again?

The former TNA World Tag Team Champions would indeed spark some interest now that they're back. With their past feuds with other talented tag teams like Team 3D, the British Invasion, Lethal Consequences, Generation Me and Beer Money Inc., fans would clamor to see Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin perform in the ring and do what they do best. But the problem here is that the teams they have feuded before have now disintegrated or already left the promotion. Bully Ray and Devon, members of Team 3D, are now singles competitors. Brutus Magnus, one-half of British Invasion, has now a new tag team partner in Samoa Joe wherein they are the current tag team champions, but they are most likely the only legitimate tag team that is present  in the division. Jay Lethal is in ROH while Consequences Creed is in FCW. Generation Me has moved on to ROH while the members of Beer Money Inc., Bobby Roode and James Storm, are now singles competitors in the main event scene, wherein they are fighting for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. The only tag teams left right now in the division is Magnus and Joe's team, Mexican America (which have been very underwhelming), Robbie E and Robbie T (where Robbie T has been appearing sporadically due to training in OVW) and the joke of a tag team which is Eric Young and ODB (which by the way are the current Knockouts Tag Team Champions). With lack of teams to feud with, the return of MCMG may not be enough to start a new revolution in TNA's tag team division. 

With their return, fans of tag team wrestling cannot expect they could turn things around overnight. They are indeed a talented pair, but they also need rivals of great skills to provide them great feuds and rivalries that could breathe life to a division nearing its death. TNA could thank its talents that their tag team division isn't the same as WWE's (which could die anytime soon), and the only thing that the creative staff should do is book them into meaningful storylines and provide rival teams that could deliver. MCMG could start the revolution, and they can be the face of TNA's tag team division.




Jed Mendoza is a writer for the Pro Wrestling Gazette. Engage with him by following him on Twitter @jedified.