WWE star Austin Theory recently faced some criticism at the hands of Bryan Alvarez, and two others have come to his defense.
Speaking during a recent episode of his My World podcast (via WrestlingNews.co), Jeff Jarrett and Conrad Thompson came to Theory’s defense. Recently, Wrestling Observer’s Bryan Alvarez critiqued Theory’s performance after his reveal as the mysterious masked man. He said that Theory was simply “the problem” rather than going in a new direction.
Defending Theory, content creator Conrad Thompson felt the criticism was unwarranted and that Theory deserved the benefit of the doubt.
“When we’re gutting and quartering a young guy who’s trying to figure it the f*** out, I’m just like, Wait a minute,” Thompson said. “Why can’t we give people the benefit of the doubt? Are you sure it’s not creative?”
Jarrett agreed with the comments and acknowledged that this might not have been Austin Theory’s idea at all. “Here’s what’s crazy. It’s as if [Theory is] the boss, and this is exactly how I wanted this story to go,” Jarrett said. “Do you think that this was Austin Theory’s vision? No. We know how this works… ‘Go out here and read this. Say that.’”
In the end, Thompson suggests that fans just see what happens instead of judging too quickly. “Brian Alvarez has created an entire belief system now amongst the online fans that Austin Theory sucks,” said Thompson. “He said it so much, now the fans are like, ‘Well, Austin Theory sucks.’ … Why don’t we give it an opportunity? Let’s see where it goes next week.”
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