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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''' KOWALSKI''': Logic! Exactly! Boxing has nothing to do with logic. It is sport taken to its purest nut. It is muscles, sweat, guts, torque, load . . . I mean, you ever meet a logical person who would bite off another man's ear?<br />▼
'''FRASER''': It's just another argument for protective helmets. With ear flaps.|'''Ray Kowalski and Constable Benton Fraser''', ''Due South'', "Mountie and Soul"}}▼
▲{{quote|''' KOWALSKI''': Logic! Exactly! Boxing has nothing to do with logic. It is sport taken to its purest nut. It is muscles, sweat, guts, torque, load . . . I mean, you ever meet a logical person who would bite off another man's ear?
▲'''FRASER''': It's just another argument for protective helmets. With ear flaps.
|'''Ray Kowalski and Constable Benton Fraser''', ''[[Due Sout]]h'', "Mountie and Soul"}}
Largely associated with [[Mystery of the Week]] television series, this is an episode that is wholly or in part structured around the sport of boxing. These episodes tend to crop up most often in [[Action Series|action/adventure]] and [[Crime and Punishment Series|crime solving series]], but they can also be played for laughs in [[Half-Hour Comedy|sitcoms]].
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For the purposes of the episode, one of the show's regular characters will usually be revealed as a boxing ''aficionado''. This can serve one of two purposes: providing a reason for the characters to attend or take part in a boxing event (when the course of the show normally wouldn't take them there), or allowing the character in question to offer some key piece of information that would only be known to someone who is familiar with the ins and outs of the world of boxing. The character's boxing savvy will rarely if ever be revisited outside the confines of The Boxing Episode.
[[Mixed Martial Arts]] may be used as a substitute for boxing. May involve an element of [[Fight Clubbing]] or [[Gladiator Games]]. Often this will be the result of a former boxer [[I Did What I Had to Do|falling on hard times]] and [[Dirty Business|entering a world of underground fighting]] to [[Single Mom Stripper|make ends meet]], provide for his [[Littlest Cancer Patient|ailing child/wife/etc]], or as an attempt to hang on to the [[Glory Days|limelight]].
▲Compare with [[Pro Wrestling Episode]] and the [[Forced Prize Fight]].
{{examples}}
▲== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* One of the early episodes of ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' involved the [[Monster of the Week]] interfering with Touma's idol's boxing matches. However, he had been shown to be a proficient boxer before this episode, and his Digimon partner wears boxing gloves, so this didn't come ''entirely'' out of nowhere...
* An episode of ''[[Ghost in
* ''[[Gokusen]]'' has a boxing episode, as part of a [[Saving the Orphanage|Save The School]] plotline.
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has the main character box against someone too, against exactly one person... Afro Luffy is the result.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[
** Incredibly enough, Muhammad Ali wins.
** [[Justified]]: Superman didn't have his Yellow-sun strength, had no experience boxing, and {{spoiler|it wasn't really him that Ali boxed anyway}}.
* ''[[Marvel Comics|Marvel Two-in-One Annual #7]]'': A famous story where [[Fantastic Four|The Thing]] and several other Marvel heroes fight the Champion of the Universe in a series of boxing matches. This comic was [[Affectionate Parody|later made into]] a Wrestling Episode of ''[[
* In an issue of ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League]]'' the Blue Beetle challenges Guy Gardner to a boxing match when he gets sick of Guy calling him out of shape and useless. Beetle wins, which would be surprising considering that Guy was one of the team's heavy hitters and Beetle was the comedy relief and tech-support guy ... except for the fact that Guy was a [[Green Lantern]] without his Power Ring in a fistfight with a [[Badass Normal]].
* There was a boxing-themed ''[[
== [[Live
* ''[[Skippy the Bush Kangaroo]]'' has an episode where boxers set up a training area in the part. It ends up in showing [[Boxing Kangaroo|Skippy wear boxing gloves]] though she never actually boxes.
* The ''[[Police Squad!]]'' episode "Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)" plays this for laughs.
* ''[[
* In the ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' episode ''The Softer They Fall'', Kinchloe boxed against a German ([[Those Wacky Nazis|Those Wacky Nazis']]) as (naturally) part of a scheme to divert attention from a heist.
* ''[[Happy Days]]'': Ralph boxes another boy for the hand of a girl. Only one problem: he doesn't know how to box. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KLwlnsX4IA Link.] In a much later episode [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsIisgbwI6U we see Chachi in the ring too.]
* ''[[Taxi]]'': [[The Danza|Tony]] is a semi-pro boxer who trains kids at a youth center, so boxing comes up a few times as a main plot.
* ''[[M*A*S*H (
** Trapper John (a surgeon!) is the 4077th's boxing champion; he takes on the champ of the 8063rd, a heavyweight enlisted man.
** Another episode has Frank Burns setting up a boxing match to settle a dispute between Klinger and Sgt. Zale.
* ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'': in one of the many [[Flash Back]] episodes Rob is in the Army, where everyone has to learn boxing and have at least three fights.
* ''[[The Jeffersons]]'': George boxed in the Navy, and puts the equipment on again after he gets in a disagreement with another man at the gym. Louise tried to plead with the man to go easy on George:
{{quote|
Other Guy: Really? Which one? I'd hate to waste a good kidney punch. }}
** Then Louise bribes the other guy to throw the fight; meanwhile George decides to throw the fight himself, so they spend the entire fight not hitting each other, waiting for the other to hit them so they can fall down. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1mvBhNXeUI Link.]
* ''[[Family Matters]]'': In the episode "Requiem for an Urkel," the series' main protagonist Steve Urkel (a nerdy, 98-pound weakling) has problems with a [[The Bully|bully]] and the two get into a scuffle at school, a teacher has the two settle their differences in the ring. Naturally, the underdog (Urkel) eventually wins after holding his own ... and others who were threatened by the bully declare their intent to fight the bully after he finishes off Urkel.
* ''[[The Honeymooners]]'': Ralph inadvertently challenges a much tougher person to a boxing match.
* ''[[I
* ''[[Are You Being Served
* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'': Dennis goes out with a female boxer, but is challenged by her ex-girlfriend, also a boxer.
* ''[[
* ''[[Friends]]'': "The One With The Ultimate Fighting Champion", where Monica's millionaire boyfriend wants to be the Ultimate Fighting Champion.
* ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'': "Raging Bull%$%#". Joe signs up for an amateur boxing tournament, expecting to get some revenge on a childhood bully, while Brian signs up as an alternate in case Joe backs out. However, when the other fighter backs out instead, the brothers find themselves pitted against one another.
* ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'': George signs Max up for a children's boxing class in order to boost Max's self-esteem. Laila Ali (daughter of Muhammad Ali) guest stars.
* ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel
* ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' episode 'Killeroo' has Howard Moon duking it out against a face eating kangaroo. Being an [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]], Howard is thoroughly outclassed, and only prevails when {{spoiler|Vince crushes the kangaroo's balls}}. Also significant in that
* ''[[The Monkees]]'': "Monkees in the Ring"
* An episode of ''Martin'' has the titular character facing off in a charity boxing match with fearsome [[Lightning Bruiser]] and former welterweight/middleweight/light heavyweight champion [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZdLJAYzV9M Tommy "The Hitman" Hearns].
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* ''[[CSI]]'', episode 3x07, "Fight Night." Grissom investigates the death of a boxer in the ring that appears to be murder.
* ''[[CSI: NY|CSI: New York]]'', episode 6x20, "Tales from the Undercard." In the course of the episode it's revealed that Mac (Gary Sinise) is a boxing fan, which helps him identify the victim as a boxer due to certain injuries.
* ''[[
* ''[[Numb3rs]]'', episode 3x16, "Contenders." One of David's old friends is involved in the death of an MMA fighter (the boxing of the present).
* ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'', episode 7x18, "Ten Count." Logan and Wheeler investigate the death of an amateur boxer, who happens to be the brother of a young man (also a boxer) who Logan used to mentor.
* ''[[MacGyver]]'', episode 7x10, "Split Decision." Earl Dent, an ex-con from previous episodes, enlists [[MacGyver]]'s help as a boxing coach so he can get back in the ring and maintain custody of his daughter. (MacGyver, being the good little [[Technical Pacifist]] that he is, is deeply unenthusiastic about this, but it ''is'' for a good cause.)
* ''[[
* ''[[Bones]]'' and Booth fly to Las Vegas to investigate a murder, and discover a women's underground MMA fighting ring.
* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', with kickboxing.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that real military culture has been known to adopt boxing in the past, but played straight in that {{spoiler|Roslin}} turns out to be a fan and knows a thing or two about it. With the [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief|Admiral, the Colonel, the CAG and most of the crew and pilots present and engaged]], [[Fridge Logic|one wonders what might have happened had the Cylons decided to attack right then]]...<ref>[[Truth in Television]] or not, is it really good for morale to have the ranking staff officer beat up by an enlisted man in front of the troops?</ref>
* ''[[NYPD Blue]]'' a couple of times: Martinez decides to enter the [
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' had a late-season episode centering around Chakotay's recreational boxing, which apparently was causing brain
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', "The Right Hand of God": Sam leaps into a boxer "owned" by a sisterhood of nuns. The episode reveals Al as something of a boxing aficionado, but it doesn't do Sam much good since holograms make poor boxing trainers.
* ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' has the "The Contenders" as a set of two episodes. The plot revolves around eliminating a mobsters, and Barney takes the role of a another boxer, having been revealed to have been a successful one before.
* ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' had "Requiem for a Superhero", which featured the Daily Planet investigating why several boxers appeared to have strength beyond mortal men. They're cyborgs.
* ''[[Leverage]]'' - "The Tap-Out Job", where Eliot poses as a MMA fighter as part of the heist, and the plot eventually leads to a (sort of) [[Forced Prize Fight]].
* Somewhat [[Justified Trope|justified]] in ''[[Highlander the Series]],'' since Mac seems to obsessively study every form of combat he comes across (with good reason).
* Arguably ''[[Babylon 5]]'''s worst episode, [[
* A boxer (Ben Murphy) arrives on ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' to clobber an opponant who beat him in the past.
* ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' got this one out of the way. In the first single-hour episode, "The Final Round", David befriends a boxer who is unwittingly delivering drugs and then is supposed to suffer a fatal heart attack during a fight. This was the first instance of Banner being conveniently being knocked out so that he doesn't Hulk out until later.
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episodes "[
* ''[[
* In a ''[[
* ''[[Friday the
* ''[[Due South]]'' episode "Mountie and Soul".
* ''[[Knight Rider]]'' ep 4.16 "The Redemption of a Champion," in the original series.
* [[Human Target]] - "Corner Man", where Chance poses as a star prize-fighter, to con a billionaire who's threatening his client into betting [[Absurdly High Stakes Game|everything]] against him in a championship tournament.
* ''[[The Rockford Files]]'' had an episode where Jim and Rocky had invested in some boxer, and there was a fair amount of corruption surrounding his manager.
* ''[[Little Mosque
* Part of the ''[[Moonlighting]]'' episode "Symphony In Knocked Flat".
** In which they attempt to knock out a punch drunk fighter in his locker room. After they hit him on the head with a weight he suddenly becomes (temporarily) lucid, saying things like "I intend to aggressively attack my opponent at the outset to achieve a sudden victory." Then they hit him again.
* ''[[Time Trax]]'' featured a temporal fugitive from 3 centuries in the future who uses his superior physical development to win bouts.
* ''[[Life On Mars]]'' investigated a boxing crime which led to ''Gene'' being implicated as the perpetrator.
* The [[Batman (TV series)|1960s Batman]] show had an episode where Batman had to fight [[Paper-Thin Disguise|The Riddler with a silly accent]] in a boxing match because... uh... [[Xanatos Roulette|I forget why]].
* The ''[[Power Rangers
** ''[[Super Sentai]]'' has "hero gets beaten up by boxing monster and must learn boxing" as one of its stock plots.
* A couple of ''[[Three Stooges]]'' shorts. One early example is "Punch Drunks", when Curly becomes a boxer because of his [[Unstoppable Rage]] when he hears the tune "Pop Goes the Weasel".
* For a [[The Gay Nineties|1890s]] take, see the third episode of ''[[
* ''[[The Wayans Bros]].'': Marlon is taunted by Hector Macho Camacho who
* ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]'': "Standing Eight Count". A boxer whom Dr. Jack Stewart idolized was framed for the murder of the boxer who beat him and turned down a rematch due to health issues.
* An episode of ''[[Punky Brewster]]'' had boxing champion Marvin Hagler showing Punky how to defend herself after a bully at school beats her up.
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' had "The Bittersweet Science". A borderline psychotic wannabee boxer starts beating to death anyone who mocks him ("So I'm a punching bag, huh?!")
* ''[[Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries]]'': In "Deadweight", Phyrne and Jane investigate two deaths involving a special police unit, rival street gangs, a traveling boxing troupe, fixed matches, Constable Collins' boxing protege, and a sprinkling of flour.
== Literature ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Set Up, a Vice case in [[
* One of the jobs the ''[[Three Stooges]]'' can take in the PC/console game is boxing, which functions like the "Punch Drunks" example from above: Larry has to get a radio playing the "Pop Goes the Weasel" tune before the fight ends.
* ''[[Bully (
== [[Web Video]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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