Motor City Machine Guns vs. DIY Best 2-out-of-3 Match for WWE Tag Titles Set for WWE Royal Rumble 2025

Friday’s WWE SmackDown show at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas featured one new match announced for the card of Royal Rumble 2025, which takes place on February 1st at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.

This new match announced was a WWE Tag Team Championship Best 2-out-of-3 Falls match of Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelly & Chris Sabin) vs. DIY (Tommaso Ciampa & Johnny Gargano) (c).

This match was setup over recent weeks shows over MCMG’s bad blood issues with DIY and trying to get a rematch for the WWE Tag titles that DIY kept trying to avoid from happening. During tonight’s show, MCMG came out during Gargano’s match with Apollo Crews leading to DIY getting distracted and Crews picking up the upset victory.

In a follow-up segment, DIY and MCMG were seen backstage with SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis. Shelly told DIY that they had already talked to Aldis and got a match made with them at the Royal Rumble for the WWE Tag titles in a Best 2-out-of-3 Falls match. This led to a very upset reaction by DIY and Gargano saying that this was the worst news he has heard this week.

Current card for WWE Royal Rumble 2025:

  • Undisputed WWE Championship Ladder match – Kevin Owens vs. Cody Rhodes (c)
  • WWE Tag Team Championship Best 2-out-of-3 Falls match – Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelly & Chris Sabin) vs. DIY (Tommaso Ciampa & Johnny Gargano) (c)
  • Men’s Royal Rumble match – LA Knight vs. John Cena vs. CM Punk vs. Jey Uso vs. Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Sami Zayn vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. TBAs
  • Women’s Royal Rumble match – Nia Jax vs. Bayley vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Naomi vs. Bianca Belair vs. Liv Morgan vs. TBAs