The pro wrestling world has been hit hard with deaths over the last few weeks.
Benjamin Satterley, the former WWE and All Elite Wrestling (AEW) star, Rick Achberger, a WWE superfan lovingly known as “Rick the Sign Guy,” and former “Saved by the Bell” star Dennis Haskins, who was involved in some WWE storylines, all died within weeks of each other.
WWE star Drew McIntyre, who is in the micro-drama series “Agent of Shadows,” told OutKick Dropkick to “remember to tell the ones you love, you love them” as he mourned the loss of all three men.
“I remember him as the best of us,” McIntyre said of Satterley. “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.
“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.”
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McIntyre spoke with OutKick Dropkick before he put out his video tribute of Satterley. He added that Satterleys legacy extended beyond the ring because of the man he was.
“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,” McIntyre said. “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.”
“And I’d have to mention my guy Rick as well.” he continued. “I tried to write something about him again. He was part of our WWE family or one of our super fans. And when I was 22, came to America, get put straight on TV and live events with people like The Undertaker and Triple H and Shawn Michaels, I was terrified. The crowd did not care.
“He would get them going every time. He would get them booing me if I was a bad guy, cheering me if I was a good guy, until eventually I found my feet and then he would abuse me every time and I loved every second of it. Yeah, it’s been a hard week in our industry and Mr. Belding as well, Dennis (Haskins). I used to call him Mr. B all the time. I just looked at a picture of us flipping the camera off together, it’s, it’s been a hard week and yeah, just remember to tell the ones you love, you love them.”
Nothing hits harder than losing a loved one in your circle and no one knows that more than the pro wrestling world â especially lately.
