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Line 8: {{examples}} == Anime And Manga == * At least two characters in the boxing manga ''[[Ashita no Joe]]'' die in the ring, or immediately after a fight. Apparently the first death, of Tooru Riikishi, was so well-done that fans of the manga held a memorial service for the character. The main character Joe Yabuki also goes through a long [[Heroic BSOD]] because of this, since Riikishi was [[The Rival]] to him... and Joe is the cause of such death, as a too-well cross-counter from him causes Riikishi enough brain damage to drop dead '''right after the fight was over.''' The second death was... of Joe himself, who [[Go Out with a Smile\|Goes Out With A Smile]] after hearing the decision on his match with the World Champion. This death has become a [[Stock Shout-Outs\|Stock Shout Out]]. * In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', this trope is the reason why Knuckle, the Sun Guardian for the First Vongola Boss, swore off boxing and became a priest. Line 26: ** In 1956's ''The Harder They Fall'' Humphrey Bogart's last film, Max Baer plays bloodthirsty boxer Buddy Brannen, a character based on himself. After another boxer dies in a match with Toro Moreno (whose character was based on Primo Carnera), Brannen in intent on proving that ''he'', who badly injured the boxer in his previous match, is really responsible for the death. * The 2008 film ''[[The Wrestler]]'' has an implied example of this right at the end when the main character wrestles with a fatal heart condition, and takes one final plunge into the ring. Unusual in that his opponent isn't responsible for his death (even accidentally) and in fact tries to get him to stop once he realizes that he is not well. * The protagonist ''[~~http~~https://~~www~~web.archive.org/web/20130901144553/http://encyclopedia-obscura.com/moviesargo.html Superargo contro Diabolikus]'' does this accidentally during a wrestling match. * ''[[Ong Bak]]'' has this as part of the back story for the main character's master, which is the reason he tells him never to use Muay Thai for anything other than self-defense. * ''[[Ip Man]] 2'' has the Twister's fatal [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] of Master Hung. Line 32: == Literature == * The book ''Flash Forward'', upon which [[~~Flash Forward 2009~~FlashForward\|the TV series]] was very loosely based, invokes this. One character who didn't have a flash forward was told by someone who heard a report about his death that he had died in the ring, and he goes through the rest of his life wondering how that's going to happen, since he's not really into boxing. {{spoiler\|[[Subverted Trope\|Subverted]] in the end. Turns out it was the ''ring'' of the particle accelerator at the physics lab where he worked. Someone tried to sabotage it, he went in to try to stop them, and the man had a gun...}} Line 90: [[Category:Drama Tropes]] [[Category:This Index Is Ready to Rumble]] [[Category:~~Casualty in the Ring~~{{PAGENAME}}]]