In an interview with Fox Sports, Drew McIntyre talked about his relationship with Pac (Benjamin Satterley) and how he first met him.
“I remember him as the best of us. He was so positive all the time to everybody around him in an industry where you can be negative at times. He was unbelievable in the ring. He never ever changed. I’ve seen him from day one of his career, fresh out the backyard, in a company called 3CW in Carlisle, England, he’d literally just started wrestling there fresh in the backyard, and I was told wait till you see Pac, and I was a teenager at the time, and my mind was blown. I’d never seen anyone so precise, so accurate, so unbelievable, and such a nice guy, and we traveled to Ireland together, went to London together,” he said.
McIntyre explained that the tributes from fans, friends and family show what kind of man Pac was behind the scenes.
“We used to tell each other, hey, I was like man, you’re the one that’s going to break out from the U.K., he’d tell me the same thing, and to see how far he came, the career he had, and, most importantly, the person he was the whole time was amazing and you’ve seen the response online that tells to the character of the man,” he said.
McIntyre also spoke about the mark Pac left on him and the industry.
“I’ve tried to write things, I even tried to do a video and it just, I don’t know, nothing felt right, it’s just shocking, 40 years old. But to leave that kind of legacy, the body of work’s one thing, you know, a lot of guys have got an incredible body of work in wrestling, you Google their name, not good people. I think the most important thing, Ben gets looked back on, it’s crazy to think about him in the past tense, it’ll be with positivity and that he really made an impact on people personally,” he said.
