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Fight of the Week was a live American professional boxing series that aired on ABC-TV from 1960 to 1964. 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. Legendary boxing commentator Don Dunphy did the blow-by-blow description of the bouts, which took place on Saturday beginning in October 1960 through September 1963.

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rdfs:label	Fight of the Week (en)
rdfs:comment	Fight of the Week was a live American professional boxing series that aired on ABC-TV from 1960 to 1964. 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. Legendary boxing commentator Don Dunphy did the blow-by-blow description of the bouts, which took place on Saturday beginning in October 1960 through September 1963. (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Benny Paret Benny Paret vs. Emile Griffith III Bowling Boxing in the 1960s Home Box Office Pay-per-view United Kingdom United States American Broadcasting Company original programming ABC Sports Emile Griffith Gillette Cavalcade of Sports Boxing in the 1980s NBC Madison Square Garden Make That Spare Showtime (TV network) Gillette (brand) 1960 in television BBC 1964 American television series endings USA Network USA Tuesday Night Fights American Broadcasting Company Boxing television series ESPN2 Prime time 1960 American television series debuts American live television series Don Dunphy ITV (TV network) New York City Radio Times Television syndication Grandstand (BBC) The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports
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country	United States (en)
first aired	1960-10-08 (xsd:date)
last aired	1964-09-11 (xsd:date)
network	American Broadcasting Company
preceded by	The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports
has abstract	Fight of the Week was a live American professional boxing series that aired on ABC-TV from 1960 to 1964. 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. Legendary boxing commentator Don Dunphy did the blow-by-blow description of the bouts, which took place on Saturday beginning in October 1960 through September 1963. From there, the series moved to Friday nights, where it continued until ABC finally canceled prime time boxing after the bout of September 11, 1964, permanently ending 18 years of regularly scheduled prime time boxing on U.S. broadcast network television. 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. Paret was carried from the ring unconscious, and died several days later as a result of his injuries that he had sustained in that bout. Fight of the Week was consistently paired with a bowling program, Make That Spare, throughout its entire run. In the event that the fight ran shorter than expected, Make That Spare would run longer to square out the hour, and vice versa. Occasionally, between September 1964 and the mid-1980s, there were a number of boxing events on broadcast television (network and syndication). Since then, however, boxing found a home with several pay-per-view specials, along with monthly, or semi-monthly scheduled bouts on premium channels such as HBO and Showtime, along with the long-running series USA Tuesday Night Fights on USA Network (1982–1998). Currently, the weekly cable bouts can be seen on ESPN2. Fight of the Week was also shown in the United Kingdom as part of the long-running BBC Saturday afternoon sports programme Grandstand. The Gillette sponsorship was listed in the Radio Times, which was considered daring at the time because the BBC was generally resistant to hints of commercialism (and sponsored programmes were not allowed even on commercial TV in the UK until the early 1990s). (en)
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release date	1960-10-08 (xsd:date)

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