Summer Splash 2024: Nekketsu Title Triple Threat Match: Dirk Lewser vs Ryan Knight vs Iris Takahashi (c)

...Breathe in... ....Breathe out...

Dirk sat on an iron chair nearby the gorilla position. He was leaning forward and clenching his fists tight while hearing The Paragon made his entrance. By the good graces of AFW management, he was given a championship match! Hardwork and determination paid off after all. And, he didn't even have to do one of those disgusting "hentai matches"! Things were looking great for the rookie. But, he couldn't rest on his laurels just yet. His path to gold was far from over. He needed to stand against the current and the former Nekketsu Champion.
Two people he has yet to face in his AFW career. At the same time. How would he deal with them?

Soon, Ryan's theme ended and Dirk knew it was almost fighting time. He quickly got up on his feet, dusted off his pink wrestling shorts and patted his face with his taped hands to psyche himself up! Then, he made his way to the gp. It's wrestling time!

Float On by Modest Mouse began playing over the arena's stereos. As his titantron displaying his name played, he walked out from the entrance looking down at the floor. He quickly shook his head and then crouched down to knee. Then, he suddenly hopped back up onto both of his feet, quickly did a full spin and threw his right arm in front of him in an energetic haymaker!

He quickly walked down the ramp to the ring and hopped onto the apron. He would then slingshot himself into the ring and walked his way to a corner opposite of Ryan. He would usually try to hype up the crowd on one of the turnbuckles. But, he needed to be serious and focus. After reaching his corner, Dirk would remove his polo shirt and his glasses and hand them to a ringside attendant. Then, he would put in his mouth guard over his upper row of teeth, clasp his hands together, roll them a bit and then lean back in the corner.

Dirk merely glanced at the sight that was the current Nekketsu Champion. He had to admit to himself, Iris looked absolutely amazing in her gear. The colors, her hair, her everything was mesmerizing. But Dirk refused to show even the slightest bit of interest on his face. He didn't travel all the way to the land of the rising sun to gawk and drool over every beauty who stood across the ring from him. He came to cement his name in the annals of japanese wrestling history. And prove that he had what it takes to become a champion!

But first, the introductions. After Iris finished her entrance, the arena lights would dim until a handful of lights shined down unto the ring. Dirk looked up at them and squinted from the brightness before he quickly looked back down and rubbed his hurting eyes. He was sure someone would catch that and laugh at his expense. Yeesh. Never doing that again. After several blinks and blonks of the eyes, Dirk was ready for action once again.

The announcer would enter the ring to begin the introductions for the match.

"The following 3-way contest is scheduled for one fall and is for the Nekketsu Championship! Currently standing in the ring to my left, he weighed in this morning at 166 lbs...! Hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...! The 'Secret Weapon..!' DIRK LEEEWWSEEERRR!!!"

Dirk would turn around and hop unto the middle turnbuckle and signal to the crowd pointing to the sky with his right pointer finger! The crowd would applaud him and cheer. But, Dirk was sure a much bigger reaction was coming when Ryan and Iris made their intros. Dirk would quickly climb back down and go back to rolling his wrists just like his idol CM Punk used to do, before hopping on his feet.

After championship introductions, the bell would ring! Finally, beginning this long awaited and exciting match up!!

DING! DING!

Dirk would lean forward and puts his hands on his knees and look back and forth at his opponents in anticipation of what they would do.

The match had begun and it looked like Ryan was wasting no time in going after Iris. Dirk was hoping for a three way lock up to start things, but that definitely wasn't happening now.

Dirk quickly left from his corner and followed near the action ensuing between Ryan and Iris.
The rookie didn't know exactly where to begin so he would hang back a safe distance and wait for his chance to jump in.

Dirk didn't want to be the type of guy to cower away from a fight or the type of person to interrupt a scuffle between a pair of wrestlers. Well, unless he was provoked into doing so. Anyway, in present time, Dirk could only watch the scuffle of Ryan vs Iris in the corner.

Suddenly, Iris managed to stop Ryan's attack and irish whipped to the rope on the opposite side.
Dirk stepped to the side, keeping a safe distance from both competitors. Suddenly however, Dirk was taken away of his thoughts of strategy due to the booming voice of Ryan Knight. He quickly turned his head to him to hear what he was saying. It seemed that he wanted focus his
attention to the champ. And that he wanted something of a truce.

"A-alright!" Dirk responded. Not giving much thought into the temporary alliance. And with that, Dirk would turn to Iris and get into a grappler's stance with his hands raised. He anticipated the usual collar and elbow tie up, but it was all up to the champ how she would respond.