R.I.P. Pac (Benjamin Satterley) - Update: Looks like it's confirmed

[C.S.]

What the fuck.

He just wrestled at All Out.

Update: A poster on WrestlingClassics.com said: "Apparently AEW's socials were hacked and this was posted but isn't true. I will wait to see if one of the sheets announce it."

I sure as fuck hope this is just a hack!!!

Update 2: Welp... Other AEW wrestlers are posting about it. Looks like it's confirmed.

[Boss Rock]

RIP. A sad reminder how fleeting life is.

[Blehschmidt]

This is awful. One of my absolute favorite modern wrestlers, and from everything being said, sounds like he was a great person. 40 is way too fucking young.

I am seeing AEW live for the first time this Wednesday in Pittsburgh. I get the feeling I am in for a rough night.

[sek69]

News coming out now says he was found in his rental car in the parking lot of a restaurant across from the arena. I don't want to speculate but "bulked up guy dies at 40" made me think of all the 90s/early 00s deaths. This one is even more shocking since as Dave mentioned on WOR tonight, sometimes you can tell that a person is having a bad time or that signs are there one way or another. We saw him have a great match on Saturday and was gone on Sunday.  

All the stories people are sharing really hammer home how he was an extremely sweet person who had all the time in the world for anyone who wanted to talk. TK livestreamed his speech before the ROH tapings and mentioned how he would have long conversations with him that had nothing to do with wrestling, mostly soccer since PAC was famously a Newcastle fanatic. 

Also you can see how he touched folks all over the world as CMLL and New Japan even posted condolences and put matches he did for them up on Youtube/New Japan World. 

(Kemalito even did a tribute to him on the latest CMLL show coming out with a  towel on his neck and laying one of his masks with a Death Rider logo on the back in the ring)

 

17 hours ago, Blehschmidt said:

I am seeing AEW live for the first time this Wednesday in Pittsburgh. I get the feeling I am in for a rough night.

Probably, but (unfortunately) AEW is very good at doing tribute shows so I expect it will be well done and respectful. Not to mention everyone who wrestles will be wanting to put on the best show they possibly can. 

[funkdoc]

And now the WWE Twitter shills are acting like this is AEW's Zahorian moment - PAC also had a known history of blood clots (which could easily cause this as well, i remember a video-game tournament player passing away from that at a younger age), and we simply don't know enough yet to jump to those kinds of conclusions.

Granted, Brian Cage opening his dumb mouth so recently also fed into this narrative...

[C.S.]

8 hours ago, funkdoc said:

Granted, Brian Cage opening his dumb mouth so recently also fed into this narrative...

Not sure how Brian Cage wasn't fired on the spot for that. Dude brings nothing to the table as it is. 

Regardless of how PAC died, it's no one's business to speculate. The facts will come out. And if it happens to be steroid-related, blaming Tony Khan is shortsighted as hell. There's a big difference between him and Vince McMahon. Vince actively pushed roid freaks and looked the other way. TK does not have even remotely a similar history. Ironically, Brian Cage himself is a perfect example. The guy is barely above JTTS level, despite looking like a mutated action figure.