It seems like everyone is talking about New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom 12 event that took place on Thursday at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.

That includes WWE SmackDown Live star Tye Dillinger. He started training at the Hart Wrestling School in Cambridge Ontario with Smith Hart, Ike Shaw and Waldo Von Erich in 2002 and then with Eric Young at the WrestlePlex school before receiving further training from Derek Wylde and Cody Deaner.

Four years later, he signed a contract with the WWE and was placed in the company's developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW).

He made his OVW television debut as "The Canadian Sensation" Shawn Spears, where he defeated then-SmackDown superstar Simon Dean.

After OVW split with WWE, he debuted in WWE's new developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling and teamed up with Nic Nemeth to defeat The Puerto Rican Nightmares for the Florida Tag Team Championship.

In 2008, he made his WWE television debut as a heel under the name Gavin Spears as part of Theodore Long's "New Superstar Initiative" in a losing effort to Ricky Ortiz.

After his ECW debut, Dillinger began splitting time between ECW and FCW.

The day before he had been released from WWE, he broke his hand and was unable to wrestle. Thus, he was released. He had a tryout with TNA in 2009 but wasn’t signed.

Moving along to 2013, he signed with WWE again and was placed in WWE's developmental territory NXT. In early-2014, Dillinger formed a tag team with Jason Jordan, with the two described as a pair of blue chip athletes.

On January 29, 2017, Dillinger was a surprise entrant during the 2017 Royal Rumble pay-per-view as part of the eponymous match.

On the April 4 episode of SmackDown Live, Dillinger made his main roster debut by defeating Curt Hawkins.

There were two fans who didn’t like the fact that Dillinger was watching pro wrestling that wasn’t under the WWE banner. Here is the exchange that went down on Twitter:

Fan: “These tweets will put you even further down the card surely.”

Dillinger: “For watching wrestling? You guys take this whole “other company” thing wayyyyy to seriously. Enjoy the wrestling. ALL of it.”

Fan: “@WWEDillinger glad to see you enjoying #WrestleKingdom12. Has anyone else on the roster showed interest in this event?”

Dillinger: “Absolutely. Some have performed there and many of us have friends in NJPW. But overall, we all love the business.”