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Ten seconds, and our boxer is down for the count. He's knocked out, but he'll get back on his feet eventually... no, he won't. He's crippled for life, if he's not outright dead. You can stop applauding the victor now. Deaths like this might seldom happen in [[Real Life]], but it's none the less [[Truth in Television]].
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== 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
* 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.
* Subverted in ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]''. While Randy Boy Sr. sustained fatal brain damage in his fight with Miyata's father, said damage didn't manifest itself until several days after Randy Sr's world championship fight. He didn't die in the ring per se, but the fight with Miyata Sr. caused his death nonetheless.
** Also subverted with Jinpachi Nekota, who was a victim of a "rabbit punch" that caused him ''punch drunk disease'' (see below), but that happened ''sixty'' years ago and he's still alive. He ''did'' have to retire, though.
* Used in the backstory of ''[[
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** 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 ''[
* ''[[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
== Literature ==
* The book ''Flash Forward'', upon which [[
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* One episode of ''[[Leverage]]'' relied on faking one of these in order to snare a corrupt local fight promoter.
* One season of ''Oz'' features a boxing tourny, climaxing with the death of one of the combatants.
* ''[[
== Music ==
* Warren Zevon sings about the death of boxer Kim Duk Koo (see [[Real Life]] below) in his song "Boom-Boom Mancini."
* Pettinellis' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whZV9ZzC-FY "Un hombre muerto en el ring"] aka [[Exactly What It Says
== Opera ==
* Joe in ''[[The Rise and Fall of
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* ''[[Fallout]] 2'' has a boxing sidequest. The rules for winning a match are a little obscure, but death is definitely a possibility. Especially if you find the plated gloves and maybe pop a couple Buffout.
* EA's ''Mutant League'' series of sports games revolved entirely around this, where players could be blown up on the court, bisected, etc.
* This is a quintessential part of [[Mortal Kombat]], though [[Exactly What It Says
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== Western Animation ==
* In [[Justice League (
== Real Life ==
* On November 13, 1982, [
* As referenced in the entry for ''[[Cinderella Man]]'' above, Max Baer ''did'', in fact, kill an opponent in the ring. However, contrary to his movie depiction, he felt ''really'' bad about it, and made amends to the man's family. Also, it only happened once.
* Sadly, this happens more than just a few times in [[Real Life]]:
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* This happened to [[Professional Wrestling]] legend Mitsuharu Misawa after landing on his neck on an otherwise routine "backdrop" suplex, fatally injuring his spinal cord and suffering an in-ring heart attack.
* This happened to British pro wrestler Malcolm "King Kong" Kirk after being on the receiving end of a signature splash from Big Daddy (easily the biggest name in British wrestling at the time), who was devastated by the incident despite an autopsy revealing that Kirk had a serious heart condition that cleared Big Daddy of any responsibility for his death.
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** Bret Hart got ''seriously'' lucky in this regard. He suffered a concussion so severe that every blow he took to the head afterwards gave him a minor concussion. These days, he can't lift weights, fly in airplanes, or professionally wrestle. It was a miracle he didn't die outright. (This is why his in-ring work is so limited in his more recent WWE appearances.)
* Luis Resto vs. Billy Collins is mired in controversy even after 30 years. Though Collins didn't die as a result of the match, the injuries he suffered in the ring, (which included permanent eye damage) ruined his entire livelihood. And about nine months later he died in a suspected suicide when it appeared that he deliberately crashed his car into a culvert. Then there are the other two reasons the bout is mired in controversy: Resto's trainer removed some of the padding from Resto's gloves, making the punches much more deadly, and according to Resto, gave the boxer crushed asthma pills mixed into his water, increasing his stamina. In other words Resto was able to hit much harder and for far longer than usual, leading to the [http://x22.xanga.com/f5ae163552532280939391/m223805751.jpg severity of the injuries that Collins suffered].
* In the case of [[
** It's actually been argued by many specialists that fighters drying out to make lower and lower weight classes may cause a fighter to be more prone to taking more sever damage. They point to the low number of ring deaths among heavyweights, who don't have to make weight before fights, even though they punch much harder than fighters in other weight classes. The above-mentioned Duk Koo Kim was reported to have had a monumental struggle to make weight for his title fight against Mancini, in a way understandable because this was a once in a lifetime chance (a title fight against one of America's most popular fighters at the time in Las Vegas on national television) for the obscure Korean boxer. These specialists believe the dehydration to try and make weight reduces the amount of fluid between the brain and the skull that cushions the brain during head trauma.
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