Marina Shafir Reflects on PAC Being A ‘Once-In-A-Lifetime Human Being’

As noted before, PAC, real name Benjamin Satterley, passed away on September 27 at the age of 40 due to bronchial asthma. AEW had dedicated the September 30th AEW Dynamite show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in tribute to the late Satterley.

Forbes held a recent interview with Marina Shafir. One of the topics discussed included Shafir’s thoughts about her feeling very fortunate to have worked with PAC and praised him for being a “once-in-a-lifetime human being.”

“I only got a really small slice of the pie with him. I get to work with like my brothers who f*****g have known him for 20-plus years, and for 20-plus years he was like an outstanding man. He was just head over heels in love with his wife, and loved what he did, and was so passionate. He was such a perfectionist, and no one ever made him feel bad about it. And I just felt very lucky to like be able to be around him and bounce ideas and just like vibe with this guy. He let not just me but like all of us in, and I don’t know what it means.

“I hate that it’s such a tough question to answer. You don’t realize how important this s**t is until you get to work with someone who shows you how important this s**t is, and I got to see that. Not just like through a screen. I got to be there and see his passion and see his intent and see just the demon that he f*****g was inside. And it was invigorating. It was so f*****g cool.

“And I think I get upset because we all know that was a man who was cut from a different cloth. They don’t make people like him anymore. He was such a perfectionist, and he was such a hard worker, and he stood on everything that he believed in, and it was f*****g beautiful, man. If that’s what you appreciate, and we all did, it was something very special, something absolutely just beautiful, like a once-in-a-lifetime human being. I don’t ever want to stop talking about him. Like, my one connection to him is being out there and being in a squared circle. And I’m very fortunate and grateful, and I feel very lucky that I get to do that.”

Shafir had worked together with PAC from September of 2024 to this past September as members of the Death Riders.