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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
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.
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Compare with [[Pro Wrestling Episode]] and the [[Forced Prize Fight]].
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[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 [[The Boxing Episode|boxing]] [[Forced Prize Fight|fights]] that are said to be rigged. During the fight the victim attends, one of the fighters fakes his death in the ring. Then the victim is convinced that going to the police or Boxing Commission will result in everybody being indicted for manslaughter.
* 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.
* ''[[
** 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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* ''[[Are You Being Served (TV)|Are You Being Served]]'': Captain Peacock is challenged to a boxing match, but backs out. Mr. Humphries is chosen to take his place in a wrestling match and loses. Then Mrs. Slocombe enters the ring.
* ''[[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)|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.
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* ''[[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.
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episodes "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Tall_Wish The Big Tall Wish]" and "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_<!-- 28The_Twilight_Zone29 Steel]]". -->
* ''[[Cold Case (TV)|Cold Case]]'': "Yo Adrian", doubling as a [[Whole
* 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.
* ''[[Friday the 13 th The Series]]'' had "Shadow Boxer", which naturally revolved around a pair of [[Artifact of Doom|cursed boxing gloves.]]
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* ''[[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)|1960s Batman]] show had an episode where Batman had to fight [[Paper
* The [[Power Rangers ZEO]] episode "Challenges", in which Tommy had to out-box Prince Sprocket's monster Punchabunch at both normal and giant size to free Adam. Tommy had already been established to have boxing skills in the previous seasons, and his special Zord this season was the Red Battlezord, which has boxing-glove fists (and [[Gatling Good|Gatling]] [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser]] cannons for cuffs, but those aren't used in the boxing match).
** ''[[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".
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