An estate agency owner has left the property industry to pursue a full-time career as a professional wrestler in Mexico.
Callum Aslantepe, 29, from Swindon, now performs under the ring name Prince Phoenix, competing in the country’s popular lucha libre wrestling scene.
Aslantepe closed his estate agency business in January after a successful wrestling tour of Mexico in 2025 convinced him to relocate permanently.
Speaking about the move, he said wrestling in Mexico attracts crowds on a very different scale to those in the UK.
“For an average show in the UK we’d get maybe 300 people on a good night,” he said. “In Mexico we’re talking thousands of fans.”
Lucha libre is one of Mexico’s most popular spectator sports, with major events regularly attracting large audiences and wrestlers achieving celebrity status.
Before entering the property industry, Aslantepe developed an interest in wrestling as a child, training between the ages of nine and 15 at a Swindon wrestling school run by 4FW, now known as British Kingdom Pro Wrestling.
He later stepped away from the sport to build a career in estate agency, eventually launching Aslan Real Estate, which specialised in residential property across Wiltshire.
After a decade away from wrestling, he returned to the ring and began competing across the South West and Wales before securing the opportunity to wrestle in Mexico, where he has now made the sport his full-time career.
“We’d frequently be working Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays – so a gruelling weekend and lots of travel – but wherever I’m wrestling, I’m happy,” he said.
“I grew up watching wrestling and always favoured the bad guys and it’s a lot easier to get somebody to not like you, he added. “Prince Phoenix is a cool guy but I wouldn’t get on his bad side.”
