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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]].
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* ''[[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 (television)]]'':
** 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.
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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 Dream of Jeannie]]'': "The Strongest Man In the World".
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* ''[[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 Reimagined]]'' 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.
** [[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.
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* 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 ''[[Murdoch Mysteries]]''.
* ''[[The Wayans Bros]].'': Marlon is taunted by Hector Macho Camacho who challanges him to a boxing match.
* ''[[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.
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