Pac

Benjamin Satterley, known as Pac, died on 27 September 2026 at the age of 40. All Elite Wrestling announced his passing and offered condolences to his family, friends and fans without giving further details. He had competed the day before at AEW All Out in Chicago against Andrade El Idolo for the AEW National Championship. Fox News/OutKick and other major outlets reported that the circumstances of his death were not made public. Tributes followed from wrestlers and fans across the industry.

Benjamin Satterley was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 22 August 1986 to Jill and Stephen Satterley. He was highly active in childhood sports including basketball, football, hockey, roller hockey and swimming. An aunt who was a WWF fan introduced him to wrestling after his parents banned it at home; he watched at her house and admired The Undertaker and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan.

Formal schooling details were not made public. From about age 16 he wrestled backyard and local shows for groups such as TWXW in Gateshead, FXW in Middlesbrough, Scarborough Wrestling Alliance and Essex Championship Wrestling. At 18 he trained at St Joseph's Hall in Gateshead with Mark Sloan, which he later described as pretty much the only wrestling school in the area.

Debuting as Pac for Independent Wrestling Federation on 27 March 2004, Satterley built his name across Britain and Europe. He won early titles in 3 Count Wrestling, became the inaugural One Pro Wrestling Openweight Champion, challenged for IPW:UK gold, competed in the King of Europe Cup, and worked British Championship Wrestling. In Italy for Nu-Wrestling Evolution he performed as Jungle Pac. His athleticism and technical ability made him a featured attraction while still young.

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla debuted him in 2006. With Roderick Strong he won the inaugural Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament and the PWG World Tag Team Championship in 2007. He also worked Ring of Honor and Chikara. In Dragon Gate and Dragon Gate USA he captured the Open the Brave Gate, Twin Gate, Triangle Gate and United Gate championships. In 2012 he reached the semifinals of New Japan's Best of the Super Juniors before signing with WWE. After leaving WWE he returned to Dragon Gate, joined R.E.D., and won the Open the Dream Gate Championship.

WWE signed Satterley in 2012. As Adrian Neville in NXT he became one half of the inaugural NXT Tag Team Champions with Oliver Grey, won the tag titles again with Corey Graves, and captured the NXT Championship from Bo Dallas in a ladder match at NXT Arrival, holding it for 287 days. On the main roster as Neville he won the 2015 Slammy Award for Breakout Star of the Year. After turning heel into the cruiserweight division he became a record two-time and longest-reigning WWE Cruiserweight Champion. A Raw walkout in October 2017 and a later frozen contract preceded his departure in 2018.

In January 2019 Pac was among All Elite Wrestling's first announced signees. He defeated Kenny Omega at All Out 2019, feuded with Hangman Page and Orange Cassidy, and formed Death Triangle with Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix. He became the inaugural AEW All-Atlantic Champion (later the International Championship) and a two-time AEW World Trios Champion, at one point holding both titles to become AEW's first double champion. He later joined the Blackpool Combat Club as it rebranded to the Death Riders with Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta, winning further Trios gold. His final match was against Andrade El Idolo for the AEW National Championship at All Out on 26 September 2026 in Chicago.

Satterley married Natalie in June 2015. He was a lifelong supporter of Newcastle United FC and a fan of British ska band The Specials; he chose the Neville ring name in part as a reference to former Specials vocalist Neville Staple. Biographical sources name his parents as Jill and Stephen Satterley. Close friends in professional wrestling included Bryan Danielson, Kenta, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, Shingo Takagi and Zack Sabre Jr. Whether he had children was not made public.

Pac was renowned for high-flying aerial attacks. His corkscrew shooting star press was called the Red Arrow in WWE and the Black Arrow afterward. As a villain he used a double underhook crossface known as the Rings of Saturn (later the Brutalizer), a tribute to Perry Saturn. Nicknames included The Super Superman, The Man That Gravity Forgot, King of the Cruiserweights, and The Bastard. Mark Henry helped him develop methods for agitating crowds during his mid-2010s heel run.

Peers and fans widely ranked Pac among the finest British and high-flying wrestlers of his generation. He was the first man to hold both the NXT Championship and the NXT Tag Team Championship, a record WWE Cruiserweight Champion, a Dragon Gate Dream Gate Champion, and AEW's first double champion. His career linked the UK independents, PWG, Dragon Gate, NXT and AEW, and his aerial offence influenced how fans and wrestlers imagined what was possible in the ring.

Major championships included the NXT Championship; NXT Tag Team Championship (twice); WWE Cruiserweight Championship (twice); AEW All-Atlantic/International Championship (inaugural); AEW World Trios Championship (twice); Dragon Gate Open the Dream Gate, Brave Gate, Twin Gate and Triangle Gate titles; Dragon Gate USA Open the United Gate Championship; and the PWG World Tag Team Championship, plus numerous UK and European titles. He won the 2015 Slammy Award for Breakout Star of the Year. Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked him No. 11 in the 2017 PWI 500.

Satterley was playable as Adrian Neville or Neville in WWE 2K15, WWE 2K16, WWE 2K17 and WWE 2K18, including a Who Got NXT path in WWE 2K15. He appears as Pac in AEW Fight Forever. WWE and AEW television packages and a Newcastle homecoming segment documented his career for wider audiences.

In October 2017 Neville walked out of Raw amid reports he had been unhappy; WWE initially denied he had left, later froze his contract, and he was no longer under contract by August 2018. Early AEW booking vs Hangman Page for Double or Nothing was cancelled amid creative differences and rewritten through an independent match. Injury absences, COVID-era travel limits, and later issues including a serious nose injury also interrupted runs. These are documented career disruptions rather than criminal matters.