User blog comment:GrilloSama/Commander Thatch/@comment-79.107.214.172-20171101215623

As usual Thatch is a detail that has been left unexplored by the writer and all we can do is speculate and theorytize, so my theory is that if Thatch was on par with the other commanders you mentioned then he couldn't have been killed so easily and without a fight by Blackbeard.