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Jack Pfefer
Jack Pfefer (also commonly spelled as "Pfeffer"; December 10, 1894 - September 13, 1974) was a professional wrestling promoter during the early-to-mid 1900s. He pioneered an earlier form of sports entertainment, as he was one of the first promoters to visualize the pro wrestling business in the mold of theater. However, he developed an infamous reputation when he exposed the sport's inner secrets to the mainstream press in a spiteful attack that nearly destroyed the entire industry.
==Early life==
Jacob Pfefer was born near Warsaw, Poland on December 10, 1894. He grew up under the control of the Russian Empire; and it was during this period when the Czars issued numerous degrees against Jews, resulting in a series of pogroms that killed thousands amidst increased anti-Semitism. He therefore left as part of the era’s mass Eastern European emigration following World War I, thus escaping the Holocaust by hiding in the boiler room of a ship to the United States.〔Ellison, Lillian. ''First Goddess of the Squared Circle'', p.57.〕 He arrived in the United States in 1921 while working as the manager for a touring acting company. With a propensity for theatrical drama, Pfefer subsequently found himself interested in the budding pro wrestling industry; and by 1924, he had begun promoting a band of Eastern European heavyweights as exotic contenders to the American champions (who would always emerge victorious over the foreign challengers in the end). Over the next five years, Pfefer gradually established himself among the region’s top booking agents; and then in 1929, he eventually relocated to New York.
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