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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? |
{{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? |
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'''FRASER''': It's just another argument for protective helmets. With ear flaps. |
'''FRASER''': It's just another argument for protective helmets. With ear flaps. |
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|'''Ray Kowalski and Constable Benton Fraser''', ''[[Due Sout]]h'', "Mountie and Soul"}} |
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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]]. |
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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== [[Anime]] |
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == |
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* 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... |
* 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... |
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* An episode of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' involved Batou investigating a famous boxer suspected of criminal activity. |
* An episode of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' involved Batou investigating a famous boxer suspected of criminal activity. |
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* There was a boxing-themed ''[[Hellraiser]]'' comic called "The Sweet Science". It was kind of stupid. |
* There was a boxing-themed ''[[Hellraiser]]'' comic called "The Sweet Science". It was kind of stupid. |
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== [[Live-Action TV]] == |
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* ''[[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. |
* ''[[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. |
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* The ''[[Police Squad!]]'' episode "Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)" plays this for laughs. |
* The ''[[Police Squad!]]'' episode "Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)" plays this for laughs. |
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* ''[[Bones]]'' and Booth fly to Las Vegas to investigate a murder, and discover a women's underground MMA fighting ring. |
* ''[[Bones]]'' and Booth fly to Las Vegas to investigate a murder, and discover a women's underground MMA fighting ring. |
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* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', with kickboxing. |
* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', with kickboxing. |
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* ''[[Battlestar Galactica |
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' uses this as a premise to let the main characters beat the tar out of one another over recent goings on midway through season 3. |
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** [[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> |
** [[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> |
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* ''[[NYPD Blue]]'' a couple of times: Martinez decides to enter the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160310095459/http://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. |
* ''[[NYPD Blue]]'' a couple of times: Martinez decides to enter the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160310095459/http://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. |