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Birth name | Benjamin Satterley |
Born | Newcastle upon Tyne, England | 22 August 1986
Spouse(s) |
Natalie Satterley (m. 2015) |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Adrian Neville[1] Ben Sacilly[2] Benjamin Satterley[3] Darkside Hayabusa[2] Jungle Pac[2] Neville[4] Pac[5] Steve Lyndon[2] |
Billed height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[4] |
Billed weight | 194 lb (88 kg)[4] |
Billed from | The Jungle[2] Newcastle upon Tyne, England[4] |
Trained by | Mark Sloan[6] |
Debut | 27 March 2004[2] |
Benjamin Satterley (born 22 August 1986), better known by his ring name Pac (stylised as PAC ), is an English professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of Death Riders and is one-third of the AEW World Trios Champions with stablemates Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta in his record-tying second reign individually. He is a one-time (and the inaugural) AEW International Champion, at one point holding both titles simultaneously to become the first double champion in AEW history.
Satterley is noted for his high-flying style and aerial attacks, which has earned him the nickname "The Man That Gravity Forgot". He began his wrestling career under the ring name Pac in his native northeast England with a small promotion, the Independent Wrestling Federation (IWF). After establishing himself throughout the country with promotions such as Real Quality Wrestling (RQW) and One Pro Wrestling (1PW), he began to perform overseas, most notably for American promotions such as Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), Ring of Honor (ROH), and Chikara, as well as the Japanese promotion Dragon Gate, where he won the Open the Brave, Triangle, and Twin Gate Championship. He is a former PWG World Tag Team Champion and winner of PWG's inaugural Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament.
From 2012 to 2015, Satterley wrestled under the name Adrian Neville in NXT, the developmental territory of WWE. He won the NXT Tag Team Championship twice, with his first reign coming as one half of the inaugural champions with Oliver Grey and his second reign being with Corey Graves. He is also a one-time NXT Champion, making him the first man to have held both the NXT Championship and the NXT Tag Team Championship.[7] He was promoted to the main roster under the shortened ring name Neville in 2015 and began competing in the cruiserweight division in 2016, becoming a record two-time (and longest-reigning) WWE Cruiserweight Champion.[8][9]
After leaving WWE in 2018, Satterley reverted to his previous ring name of Pac and returned to Dragon Gate, holding the Open the Dream Gate Championship for much of his time there and joining the villainous R.E.D. stable. In 2019, he left Dragon Gate and signed with AEW, where he became a member of the Death Triangle stable.