The Fighter appears in the table of contents of 14 Weekly Shonen Jump issues (週刊少年ジャンプ, Shueisha), between 1982 and 1982. Its first chapter appears in issue 18, 1982, published April 19, 1982. No final chapter is marked in the sources; the database records it up to issue 31, 1982, published July 19, 1982.