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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}}.

* ''[[The Honeymooners]]'': Ralph inadvertently challenges a much tougher person to a boxing match.

* ''[[I Dreamof Jeannie]]'': "The Strongest Man In the World".

* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'': Dennis goes out with a female boxer, but is challenged by her ex-girlfriend, also a boxer.

* ''[[ICarly (TV)|I Carly]]'': the one-hour special "iFight Shelby Marx", in which Carly watches MMA fighter Shelby Marx (played by [[Victoria Justice]]) on TV and, [[I Was Just Joking|as a joke]], challenges her to a match. [[Oh Crap|Shelby accepts.]]

* ''[[Bones]]'' and Booth fly to Las Vegas to investigate a murder, and discover a women's underground MMA fighting ring.

* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', with kickboxing.

** [[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 [http://www.nypbc.com/ Smoker] and gets trained by Lieutenant Fancy (who beats him up pretty good during a friendly sparring match); several seasons later Detective Clark enters it too.

* A boxer (Ben Murphy) arrives on ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' to clobber an opponant who beat him in the past.

* ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV)|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.

* ''[[Cold Case (TV)|Cold Case]]'': "Yo Adrian", doubling as a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to ''[[Rocky (Film)|Rocky]]''.

* In a ''[[Remington Steele (TV)|Remington Steele]]'' episode a baby is found in a boxer's locker and he asks the Steele agency for help. Hijinx ensue as the boxer readies for a match and Remington is revealed to be a very competent boxer.

* ''[[Due South]]'' episode "Mountie and Soul".

* ''[[Knight Rider]]'' ep 4.16 "The Redemption of a Champion," in the original series.

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