[1] After NBC-TV's cancellation of The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports in the spring of 1960, ABC took over the prime time boxing program, although it was renamed Fight of the Week.
[1] The last episode featured a fight between Dick Tiger and Don Fullmer, which Variety said was a "slow waltz that must have had viewers thinking they were watching the demise of the Arthur Murray show".
[4] One reason for the downturn of televised boxing occurred on Fight of the Week's the March 24, 1962 broadcast, when Emile Griffith defeated Benny "The Kid" Paret for the Welterweight Championship at New York's Madison Square Garden.
In the event that the fight ran shorter than expected, Make That Spare would run longer to square out the hour, and vice versa.
Fight of the Week was also shown in the United Kingdom as part of the long-running BBC Saturday afternoon sports programme Grandstand.