Wrestler Benjamin Satterley died of bronchial asthma at 40
Professional wrestler Benjamin Satterley died of bronchial asthma at the age of 40.
Chicago's Cook County Medical Examiner's Office listed asthma as the cause and classified the death as natural, Deadline reported on 17 October. The outlet noted that the New York Post first published the finding.
Satterley died on 27 September in Illinois. He was 40.
One day earlier, he had wrestled in Chicago at All Out, a pay-per-view show fans pay extra to watch. Appearing as Pac, he lost the AEW National Championship to Andrade El Idolo.
Satterley was a native of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He began his wrestling career in 2004 and built a reputation for fast, high-risk aerial moves. That style gave him the nickname "The Man that Gravity Forgot".
He went on to wrestle for WWE, where he performed as Adrian Neville and Neville. He signed with All Elite Wrestling, known as AEW, in 2019. There he appeared under the names Pac and The Bastard.
The determination was made by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, the agency that investigates certain deaths in the Chicago area. The office says its jurisdiction covers about 5.2 million people, roughly 45% of the population of Illinois, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
It says more than 16,000 deaths are reported to it each year. Around 5,600 of those are accepted for further investigation, with autopsies performed in about half of the cases brought into its institute.
The office itself dates to 6 December 1976, when it was created following a 1972 referendum. It replaced the Office of the Coroner. Robert J. Stein, M.D., was appointed as the first Cook County Medical Examiner in 1976 and served until his retirement in 1993.
Its laboratory building, the Cook County Institute of Forensic Medicine, was completed in 1983. It was renamed the Robert J. Stein Institute of Forensic Medicine in February 1994. The office says it operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
It is open to the general public from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday to Friday, except official county holidays. Identification hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 12 to 4 p.m. on weekends and holidays.
No further details about Satterley's death have been released in the reports. His match at All Out came at the close of a career that spanned more than two decades.
