Benjamin Satterley, the hard-hitting and high-flying professional wrestler known to fans worldwide simply as PAC, has died, All Elite Wrestling announced Sunday night. He was 40.
News of his death came the day after he’d wrestled during AEW’s “All Out” pay-per-view Saturday night at the NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, outside Chicago. A cause of death was not immediately provided.
“A native of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Satterley began his wrestling career in 2004 and went on to perform for wrestling organizations all over the world, captivating fans with innovative high-flying moves and incredible in-ring ability,” AEW said.
Satterley first made a name for himself on the British independent scene before he embarked on a globetrotting career in which he performed in some of the biggest promotions on the planet, including AEW, World Wrestling Entertainment (where he went by Adrian Neville), New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre.
His high-flying offense, made all the more impressive by the brawny physique on his stocky frame, earned him the nickname “The Man That Gravity Forgot.”
Satterley debuted on All Elite Wrestling in 2019, following his stint in WWE, where he’d eventually earn the monicker “The Bastard.”
At AEW, he won the All-Atlantic Championship in 2022 and became one of the company’s more prominent wrestlers as part of the Death Riders faction, with whom he’d earn the AEW World Trios Championship alongside fellow members Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta in 2025. It followed another Trios title in 2022 alongside Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fénix as part of the “Death Triangle.”
Between the ropes, few wrestlers could combine speed, agility, technique and raw power quite like Satterley.
He could twist and wind his body off the top turnbuckle with his signature “Black Arrow” maneuver, or he could use his “Brutalizer” to tie up an opponent’s arms and neck on the canvas.
On the microphone, his promos conveyed no-nonsense intensity that relayed an ultimately simple message to opponents: I’m here to hurt you.
“My name is ‘The Bastard,’” Satterley said in one AEW promo. “The people named me that because I am a bastard. But on top of that — in addition to — I just so happen to be an excellent, exceptional, world-class professional wrestler.”
Tributes to Satterley quickly followed news of his death.
“The greatest export from our country,” fellow Englishman and AEW World Champion Will Ospreay said on X. “Also the greatest human being.”
“I am in shock. This is heartbreaking,” AEW wrestler Evil Uno said. “We have lost another great person, a great soul, a true professional.”
Ace Austin, whom Satterley defeated on a special episode of AEW’s “Collision” program Wednesday, summed up what many were feeling Sunday: “I don’t understand man.”
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