AEW star Benjamin Satterley, known as Pac, has died at 40 one day after his final match in Chicago, and no cause of death has been released.
The New York Post reported that All Elite Wrestling announced Sunday night the death of Benjamin Satterley, the high-flying star who performed as Pac.
Satterley was 40. He had wrestled Saturday night at the All Out pay-per-view at the NOW Arena in Chicago, then appeared again later on the card. By the next night, the company was mourning him.
No cause of death was given. No location of death was released. Fans and colleagues were left with an abrupt goodbye and a long list of unfinished questions, a pattern familiar when a public figure is taken suddenly and the official record stays thin, much like coverage of other sudden deaths left with undetermined findings.
Satterley’s last bout was against Andrade, AEW’s national champion, on the All Out show. He lost. Andrade met him with a handshake in the ring afterward.
Later that same night, Satterley involved himself in the main event between Death Riders leader Jon Moxley and AEW World Champion Will Ospreay. He was still working the show hours before the company would announce his passing.
That sequence is the hard fact of the weekend: he competed, he took the loss, he stayed involved, and the next night AEW said he was gone.
All Elite Wrestling posted its formal notice on X.
The promotion said it was “saddened to announce the passing of Benjamin Satterley, aka Pac,” and described him as a native of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, who began wrestling in 2004 and performed for organizations around the world with “innovative high-flying moves and incredible in-ring ability.”
“Pac signed with All Elite Wrestling in 2019 and held multiple AEW Championships and competed in some of the most memorable matches in AEW history. Our condolences go out to Satterley’s family, friends and fans.”
AEW president Tony Khan followed with his own tribute on X, calling Satterley a man who “defined excellence” as a husband and friend and in the craft he chased across the world.
“Benjamin Satterley defined excellence, as a beloved husband & friend to his many loved ones, + in his wrestling knowledge, skill, unprecedented athleticism, professionalism, consistency + dedication to the sport that he loved & traveled the world to pursue,” Khan wrote. “May Ben rest in peace.”
Fox News reported the same core announcement and career ledger: AEW’s Sunday night notice, the age of 40, and the championship trail that followed him from NXT and WWE into AEW.
Satterley’s path was long for a man who died at 40. He started in 2004. From 2012 to 2018 he worked in WWE as Neville, picking up major undercard gold along the way.
His WWE and NXT run included a reign as NXT champion, two NXT Tag Team titles, and two WWE Cruiserweight championships. After his WWE release, he spent about a year on the independents, then signed with AEW in 2019 and worked as Pac.
In AEW he became the inaugural All-Atlantic Champion and a two-time Trios champion, with the company saying he held multiple AEW championships and delivered some of its most memorable matches. Young stars gone without warning always jolt the sports world, as when a former IMG Academy volleyball standout died at 20 and left fans searching for answers.
Faction life marked his later AEW years. He first worked in Death Triangle with Rey Fenix and Penta. By late 2025 he was part of the Death Riders group led by Jon Moxley, the same orbit he stepped into again during Saturday’s main event.
The announcement landed while AEW was already grieving another name. The company had recently mourned former AEW wrestler Andy “The Butcher” Williams, who died at 48 on Sept. 9 after collapsing and striking his head during an independent match in Pittsburgh.
Two deaths. Two different settings. One locker-room community taking the hits in public. Sudden losses of well-known figures tend to freeze the news cycle in the same way, whether the person is a wrestler or a political voice remembered in the hours after a final conversation before an unexpected death.
AEW’s statement and Khan’s tribute did not list a cause. They did not list a place of death. They did not publish a timeline beyond the Sunday night announcement and the Saturday night show.
That gap matters to family, to fans, and to anyone who watched him work a full PPV card and then read a death notice the next night. People can honor a career and still expect plain facts when a 40-year-old athlete dies without explanation.
Satterley spent two decades in a brutal business that rewards risk, speed, and durability. He left a clear record of titles, travel, and tough matches. He also left a silence where the medical story should be.
When a performer dies that young, the least the public is owed is clarity, not rumors, not fog, and not a shrug from the institutions that booked the body for years.
