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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.
* The ''[[Police Squad!]]'' episode "Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)" plays this for laughs.
* [[Racked Squad]]: in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB2iVqJ5ed0 'The Knock-Out'] a con game group stages
* 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.]
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* ''[[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-Air]]'': Will gets beat up by Nicky's female boxing instructor.
* ''[[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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** [[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.
* ''[[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.
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