The working title of this film was Cross Pull. The plot summary was based on a dialogue continuity in the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection, and the onscreen credits were taken from a screen credit billing sheet in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department, both of which are at the UCLA Theater Arts Library. The novel originally appeared in serial form in The Saturday Evening Post (22 November-13 December 1919). According to information in the legal records, this film was never released, although production was completed in late 1932. No information has been located to indicate the reason the film was, in the words of an inter-office correspondence of February 17, 1933, "written off."
Born to Fight appears to have been the only film directed by Walter Mayo, who otherwise worked as an assistant director. While the female lead character is called "Ginny" in the dialogue of the continuity, she is listed as "Jennie" in a cast list on the first page of the continuity and in a Fox trade paper advertising billing sheet. In 1921, H. O. Davis produced The Silent Call, an Associated First National release based on the same source, directed by Lawrence Trimble and starring Strongheart, John Bowers and Kathryn McGuire (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.5047).