Jarvis Astaire

Jarvis Joseph Astaire, OBE (6 October 1923 – 21 August 2021) was a British sports executive, boxing promoter, and film producer.

[1] Astaire was born Joseph Golombovitch in Stepney, East London on 6 October 1923.

[3] For much of the early 1970s Astaire owned a controlling stake in Joint Promotions, the former cartel that was the UK's largest professional wrestling organisation from the early 1950s to the late 1980s and which held a monopoly on television coverage of wrestling on ITV for most of the that period.

He would later play a key role in bringing the WWF's SummerSlam '92 event to Wembley Stadium before a crowd of around 80,000.

[5][6] His nephew is the writer, film producer, and media advisor Simon Astaire.