It Was Almost Real: The Pro Wrestling History Podcast
Oct 12, 2026 · 39 min · 9 segments
In this episode, I look at some of the wild claims that fans, wrestlers and wrestling historians sometimes make about professional wrestling matches.
Ken Zimmerman Jr.HostAnd this news shocked, I think, most everybody because you had an athlete in the kind of condition that Pac was in, and for them to pass away a day after they had one of the better matches on a pay-per-view with Andrade Alito, for the national title was really shocking.
And with the subsequent reporting, it appears that Hawk had a medical condition that he wasn't aware of.
We'll know for certain when they released the results of the autopsy, but they did not see any foul play.
There did not appear to be any kind of external cause which would have caused his early demise.
It sounds like it was a medical issue that he did not know that he had, and I've got personal experience with this.
My wife survived a stroke at 40 years in her early 40s that had nothing to do with anything that she was doing.
She has a very strong family history of cholesterol, did not know her cholesterol was high, and it was high enough that it caused her to have a very mild stroke.
But it was scary, and it was a warning sign of something that she had no idea that she had.
And we'll know for sure, but that sounds exactly like what this is, is that there was some kind of undetected medical condition that he wasn't even aware of.
But on the day after the pay-per-view on Saturday, September 27, 2026, A restaurant patron found Pac, Benjamin Satterley, unconscious in his rental car.
He was getting ready to go to the airport and go back home, and a patron found him unconscious in his rental car.
The patron called emergency services at about 4 p.m., and by 4.08 p.m., the emergency responders had determined that Satterley had passed away.
Satterly, who was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England on August 22, 1986, was 40 years old and apparently just one of the nicest, most humble, straightest human beings you're ever going to meet.
PonyCon very classily dedicated the September 30th AEW Dynamite to the memory of Satterly and allowed the wrestlers to pay their tributes in their way and to speak about what Pac meant to them.
He always seemed like a straight shooter who had his stuff together and was the, you know, foundation guy.
And the promo that they did after the pay-per-view where john moxley is talking about his loss to will osprey and putting osprey over and then he goes into how you want to be remembered you know and there's two kinds of funerals and you know the death riders are all standing around him and it was so eerie because he was talking about how you want people to remember you and all of this and then he stands up and then the death riders all one by one, start to leave with him, and the last image you see on that promo is Pac standing there, you know, looking like a million dollars as usual, with his arms crossed, staring at the camera, and then he walks off, and he is the last person you see, and that was his last time on video for AEW, it's really, that was eerie.
And this news shocked, I think, most everybody because you had an athlete in the kind of condition that Pac was in, and for them to pass away a day after they had one of the better matches on a pay-per-view with Andrade Alito, for the national title was really shocking.
And with the subsequent reporting, it appears that Hawk had a medical condition that he wasn't aware of.
We'll know for certain when they released the results of the autopsy, but they did not see any foul play.
There did not appear to be any kind of external cause which would have caused his early demise.
It sounds like it was a medical issue that he did not know that he had, and I've got personal experience with this.
My wife survived a stroke at 40 years in her early 40s that had nothing to do with anything that she was doing.
She has a very strong family history of cholesterol, did not know her cholesterol was high, and it was high enough that it caused her to have a very mild stroke.
But it was scary, and it was a warning sign of something that she had no idea that she had.
And we'll know for sure, but that sounds exactly like what this is, is that there was some kind of undetected medical condition that he wasn't even aware of.
But on the day after the pay-per-view on Saturday, September 27, 2026, A restaurant patron found Pac, Benjamin Satterley, unconscious in his rental car.
He was getting ready to go to the airport and go back home, and a patron found him unconscious in his rental car.
The patron called emergency services at about 4 p.m., and by 4.08 p.m., the emergency responders had determined that Satterley had passed away.
Satterly, who was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England on August 22, 1986, was 40 years old and apparently just one of the nicest, most humble, straightest human beings you're ever going to meet.
PonyCon very classily dedicated the September 30th AEW Dynamite to the memory of Satterly and allowed the wrestlers to pay their tributes in their way and to speak about what Pac meant to them.
He always seemed like a straight shooter who had his stuff together and was the, you know, foundation guy.
And the promo that they did after the pay-per-view where john moxley is talking about his loss to will osprey and putting osprey over and then he goes into how you want to be remembered you know and there's two kinds of funerals and you know the death riders are all standing around him and it was so eerie because he was talking about how you want people to remember you and all of this and then he stands up and then the death riders all one by one, start to leave with him, and the last image you see on that promo is Pac standing there, you know, looking like a million dollars as usual, with his arms crossed, staring at the camera, and then he walks off, and he is the last person you see, and that was his last time on video for AEW, it's really, that was eerie.
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