Neville in September 2016
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Birth name | Benjamin Satterley |
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Born |
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom |
22 August 1986
Residence | Orlando, Florida, United States |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Adrian Neville Ben Sacilly Benjamin Satterley Darkside Hayabusa Jungle Pac Neville Pac |
Billed height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
Billed weight | 194 lb (88 kg) |
Billed from | The Jungle Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
Trained by | Independent Wrestling Federation |
Debut | 27 March 2004 |
Benjamin "Ben" Satterley (born 22 August 1986) is an English professional wrestler currently signed to the American professional wrestling promotion WWE. He performs on the Raw brand and competes under the ring name Neville in the cruiserweight division, where he is the current and longest reigning Cruiserweight Champion in his first reign. He previously wrestled in WWE's developmental territory NXT under the name Adrian Neville, and prior to that, competed on the independent scene under the ring name Pac.
In NXT, he is one of three men (the other two men being The Revival's Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) to win the NXT Tag Team Championship twice, with his first reign being one-half of the inaugural champions with Oliver Grey and the other reign with Corey Graves. He is also a one-time NXT Champion, thus making him the first (and only) man to have held both the NXT Championship and the NXT Tag Team Championship. Neville was called onto the main roster in 2015 and was later drafted to Raw in the 2016 draft. He went on to win his first main roster title in 2017 by defeating Rich Swann for the Cruiserweight Championship at the 2017 Royal Rumble.
Satterley is noted for his high flying style and aerial attacks, which has earned him the nickname "The Man That Gravity Forgot". He began his wrestling career in North East England with a small promotion, the Independent Wrestling Federation (IWF), and after establishing himself in the United Kingdom with promotions such as Real Quality Wrestling and One Pro Wrestling, he began to perform overseas, most notably for the Italy-based Nu Wrestling Evolution, the United States-based Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), Ring of Honor, Chikara, and the Japan-based Dragon Gate, where he has won the Open the Brave, Triangle and Twin Gate Championship in the latter promotion. He is a former PWG World Tag Team Champion, and winner of PWG's inaugural Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament (with Roderick Strong).