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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* 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...
* An episode of ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' involved Batou investigating a famous boxer suspected of criminal activity.
* ''[[Gokusen]]'' has a boxing episode, as part of a [[Saving the Orphanage|Save The School]] plotline.
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has the main character box against someone too, against exactly one person... Afro Luffy is the result.
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** 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}}.
* ''[[Marvel Comics|Marvel Two-in-One Annual #7]]'': A famous story where [[Fantastic Four|The Thing]] and several other Marvel heroes fight the Champion of the Universe in a series of boxing matches. This comic was [[Affectionate Parody|later made into]] a Wrestling Episode of ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory|Dial M for Monkey]]''.
* In an issue of ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League]]'' the Blue Beetle challenges Guy Gardner to a boxing match when he gets sick of Guy calling him out of shape and useless. Beetle wins, which would be surprising considering that Guy was one of the team's heavy hitters and Beetle was the comedy relief and tech-support guy ... except for the fact that Guy was a [[Green Lantern]] without his Power Ring in a fistfight with a [[Badass Normal]].
* There was a boxing-themed ''[[Hellraiser (Film)|Hellraiser]]'' comic called "The Sweet Science". It was kind of stupid.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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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 (TV)|M*A*S*H]]'':
** 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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* ''[[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 DreamofDream of Jeannie]]'': "The Strongest Man In the World".
* ''[[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.
* ''[[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.]]
* ''[[Friends]]'': "The One With The Ultimate Fighting Champion", where Monica's millionaire boyfriend wants to be the Ultimate Fighting Champion.
* ''[[Wings (TV series)|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.
* ''[[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 Boxing Episode]] is also The Mighty Boosh' first broadcast episode.
* ''[[The Monkees]]'': "Monkees in the Ring"
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* ''[[CSI]]'', episode 3x07, "Fight Night." Grissom investigates the death of a boxer in the ring that appears to be murder.
* ''[[CSI: NY|CSI: New York]]'', episode 6x20, "Tales from the Undercard." In the course of the episode it's revealed that Mac (Gary Sinise) is a boxing fan, which helps him identify the victim as a boxer due to certain injuries.
* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'', episode 6x18, "Knockout." Director Vance uses the NCIS team to investigate the death of a boxer who is an old friend of the director's. We find out that, in his youth, Vance himself was a boxer, and his wife first met him at one of his matches.
* ''[[Numb3rs]]'', episode 3x16, "Contenders." One of David's old friends is involved in the death of an MMA fighter (the boxing of the present).
* ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'', episode 7x18, "Ten Count." Logan and Wheeler investigate the death of an amateur boxer, who happens to be the brother of a young man (also a boxer) who Logan used to mentor.
* ''[[MacGyver]]'', episode 7x10, "Split Decision." Earl Dent, an ex-con from previous episodes, enlists [[MacGyver]]'s help as a boxing coach so he can get back in the ring and maintain custody of his daughter. (MacGyver, being the good little [[Technical Pacifist]] that he is, is deeply unenthusiastic about this, but it ''is'' for a good cause.)
* ''[[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]'', episode 3x16, "Champ!" Face wants to invest a substantial portion of the Team's money in a boxer named Billy Marquette, but in the process they discover that a local sleaze named Sonny Monroe is rigging boxing matches. B.A. goes undercover as an unbeatable boxer so the team can take Monroe down.
* ''[[Bones]]'' and Booth fly to Las Vegas to investigate a murder, and discover a women's underground MMA fighting ring.
* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', with kickboxing.
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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 damage--but actually something else was going on that explained his weird visions and blackouts. Also another episode where Seven and Tuvok are kidnapped to become gladiators.
* ''[[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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* Arguably ''[[Babylon 5]]'''s worst episode, [[BLAM Episode|"TKO"]], has an old friend of Garibaldi's (a boxer named [[Meaningful Name|Walker Smith]]) come back to Babylon 5 for an alien boxing match. This is also remarkable as one of the only episodes of the show in which almost nothing is important to the overall arc of the show.
* A boxer (Ben Murphy) arrives on ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' to clobber an opponant who beat him in the past.
* ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|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 "[[wikipedia:The Big Tall Wish|The Big Tall Wish]]" and "[[wikipedia:Steel chr(28)The Twilight Zonechr(29)|Steel]]".
* ''[[Cold Case (TV)|Cold Case]]'': "Yo Adrian", doubling as a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to ''[[Rocky (Filmfilm)|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.
* ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series]]'' had "Shadow Boxer", which naturally revolved around a pair of [[Artifact of Doom|cursed boxing gloves.]]
* ''[[Due South]]'' episode "Mountie and Soul".
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* [[Human Target]] - "Corner Man", where Chance poses as a star prize-fighter, to con a billionaire who's threatening his client into betting [[Absurdly High Stakes Game|everything]] against him in a championship tournament.
* ''[[The Rockford Files]]'' had an episode where Jim and Rocky had invested in some boxer, and there was a fair amount of corruption surrounding his manager.
* ''[[Little Mosque On the Prairie (TV)|Little Mosque Onon the Prairie]]'': "Gloves Will Keep Us Together" revolves around a boxing match between Amaar and Rev. Thorne.
* Part of the ''[[Moonlighting]]'' episode "Symphony In Knocked Flat".
** In which they attempt to knock out a punch drunk fighter in his locker room. After they hit him on the head with a weight he suddenly becomes (temporarily) lucid, saying things like "I intend to aggressively attack my opponent at the outset to achieve a sudden victory." Then they hit him again.
* ''[[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 series)|1960s Batman]] show had an episode where Batman had to fight [[Paper-Thin Disguise|The Riddler with a silly accent]] in a boxing match because... uh... [[Xanatos Roulette|I forget why]].
* The [[Power Rangers ZEOZeo]] 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".
* For a [[The Gay Nineties|1890s]] take, see the third episode of ''[[Murdoch Mysteries (TV)|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.
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* The Set Up, a Vice case in [[LA Noire]] revolves around an over-the-hill boxer refusing to drop a fight. Cole and Earle then have to hunt him down.
* One of the jobs the ''[[Three Stooges]]'' can take in the PC/console game is boxing, which functions like the "Punch Drunks" example from above: Larry has to get a radio playing the "Pop Goes the Weasel" tune before the fight ends.
* ''[[Bully (Videovideo Gamegame)|Bully]]'' has a boss fight that starts in the boxing ring. Outside the storyline, it's still fun, earns cash, and unlocks a [[Save Point]].
 
== [[Web Video]] ==
* ''[[Four Blokes Without Telly (Web Video)|Four Blokes Without Telly]]'': Episode 2.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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