Melbourne property manager reveals double life as pro wrestler

Sean ‘Showtime’ Thompson is possibly Victoria’s only pro-wrestler and property manager, after Covid lockdowns led him to follow a child-hood dream. Melbourne lockdowns might have put a chokehold on the city, but for Sean Thompson it was the launch pad to rekindle a childhood dream of becoming a professional wrestler. The 27-year-old moved to the city from Newcastle just in time to get told top stay home, but after years of mixed martial arts training the extra time to think made him realise he didn’t want to “live a life of regrets”. Now by day he is Sean Thompson, a mild-mannered Ray White property manager who wrangles landlords and tenants in the Southbank area, by night he is “Showtime” and has stomped his name into the city’s wrestling scene. RELATED: Opera-singing auctioneer helps St Albans house score $160k bonus Melbourne agent crashes through ceiling as Iron Man in wild video Melbourne family swaps traffic lights for home price boom “I went down and did some induction classes where they teach you how to throw yourself around safely,” Mr Thompson said. “Just two weeks in I actually started announcing for the matches first, but now I’ve been doing it for four years and actual...