Lance Archer gives emotional speech about the death of Pac at wrestling event
In a post via Twitter/X on September 27th 2026, AEW officially announced that Pac has passed away at the age of 40. After having a match at the Warrior Wrestling event on Sunday night, AEW’s Lance Archer broke the news to fans…
“You guys are going to give me a second. I need to say something. This is real. We lost a brother.
This ain’t a laughing matter. If you laughed, you’re being extremely disrespectful. This is very real.
AEW’s Pac.
This is legit. This ain’t fake. This ain’t laughing. This ain’t hooting and hollering. Pac has passed away.
You can look on your news feeds. You can see that this is extremely real.
And there’s only one reason that myself and Marina [Shafir] here in a little while have come out here to perform: because without you guys, this business doesn’t exist.
Without you guys cheering for us and having a good time. I don’t mean to chastise the people. Maybe you just didn’t know, but this is very real.
No one truly knows what happened. He performed last night on the pay-per-view, and he was found tonight.
So, there’s only really one reason I even performed tonight, because I talked to Jon Moxley, who is obviously in a box group with Marina and him, and I asked him, I said, ‘Should we do this tonight? Should we perform?’
Because first and foremost, he was checking on us, because that’s what kind of man he is. That’s what kind of family the business of professional wrestling is. Because when something like this happens, when a tragedy happens, we check on each other, and he checked on us.
Storylines to be damned, feuds be damned. Brother to brother, brother to sister. He checked on us, and I asked him, ‘Do we go out there and perform?’
And he said, ‘You only get one lifetime. One, that’s it. And go out there and do what you do. Do it to the best of your ability. Entertain the people who came and paid hard money, and you do it in honor and remembrance of our fallen brothers.’
AEW, unfortunately, has lost its fair share, from Brodie Lee to the Butcher recently, and tonight Pac. So he said, ‘you go out there and you perform. You put on your boots and you perform. You go out there because that’s what Pac wants you to do. He wants you to go out there and perform. So leave it all alone. Put your boots on. Get in the ring. Kick each other in the face and enjoy life.’
So right here, right now, me, Marina, every one of the guys, we’re doing this because we all have one life to live. So you go and enjoy and do what you do to the best of your ability.
God bless. I love you all.”