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Unseen NXT Vignette Shows Sami Zayn and PAC as Planned Tag Team “The Offbeats”

A previously unused WWE vignette pairing Sami Zayn with Neville, the ring name PAC used during his WWE tenure, has surfaced following PAC’s death at the age of 40. WWE producer Ryan Katz shared the footage, which shows the two performers marching together and suggests there were once plans for them to team up as a tag duo called The Offbeats, according to Fightful and 411Mania.

Zayn and Neville were primarily positioned as on-screen rivals during their overlapping time in WWE NXT, most notably feuding over the NXT Championship. The newly surfaced clip indicates that, at some point, WWE also considered a different direction for the pair as teammates rather than adversaries, though the vignette was never used and the tag team never materialized on television.

PAC, whose real name was Benjamin Satterley, died on September 27, 2026, at age 40. He competed in WWE under the name Neville before later becoming a prominent star in AEW as PAC. The release of the vignette has been described by outlets including eWrestlingNews and Wrestling Headlines as part of a wave of tributes to Satterley from across the wrestling world, alongside acknowledgments from outside the industry such as one from Newcastle United, reflecting his roots in Newcastle upon Tyne.

No further details have been confirmed about when the Offbeats concept was originally conceived or why it was ultimately shelved in favor of the Zayn-Neville rivalry that did air.

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