User blog comment:DancePowderer/The Shave of Things to Come/@comment-3119203-20110110024052

Good connections, it makes sense if you think about it, but he wasnt strong enough to take whitebeards territory before he was dead. Sure he may be strong, since hes in the new world and he has an 80 million bounty, but he probably just isnt on par with blackbeard and whitebeard. I think he is kind of playing off of whitebeards fame by giving himself a -beard name