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The Friday night program, broadcast from Madison Square Garden lasted until June 24, 1960, a 14-year period which is, by far, the longest continuous run of any boxing program in television history. The Gillette sponsorship began at the start of the first full television programming season, 1948-49 .
Fight of the Week is a live American professional boxing series that aired on ABC-TV from 1960 to 1964. [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.
The series was never copyrighted and extant episodes from the 1960s run are thus in the public domain. Three episodes are known to exist; the March 27, 1964 [ 4 ] episode with Roger Helle bowling against Dick Weber, the May 8, 1964 [ 5 ] [ 6 ] episode with Bud Hodgson facing J.B. Blaylock, and the July 24, 1964 [ 2 ] episode with Jim Schroeder ...
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After cancellation of Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts on CBS in 1955, the series was picked up by ABC, renamed The Wednesday Night Fights, [11] [12] and continued until 1960. Russ Hodges and Jack Drees both stayed with the show when it transferred from CBS. Hodges however, left in October 1955 and Drees was the only regular announcer for the five years ...
January 14 - Paul Pender knocks out Terry Downes in the 7th round to retain the world middleweight title in Boston. March 4 – Sugar Ray Robinson's last world title attempt, as he and Gene Fullmer close their rivalry with Fullmer retaining the National Boxing Association's world Middleweight title with a fifteen-round unanimous decision at Las Vegas.
The fight is tainted with controversy, as many thought that it was a fixed fight. Pep later sued Sports Illustrated for 75 million dollars after Sports Illustrated ran a story in 1981 that suggested Pep took a dive for 16,000 dollars. A jury deliberated for only 15 minutes to rule against Perez.
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