History Main / ForcedPrizeFight

* Similar to the ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' examples below, the Roulette storylines in ''[[JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]]'' and ''[[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA Classified]]''.

* ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', "The Cat and the Canary" and "Grudge Match". Both featured a secret underground super-powered fighting circuit run by the villainess Roulette. The latter episode resorted to [[{{Brainwashed}} mind control]] to effect [[FanService girl]]-on-[[FetishFuel girl]] {{Catfight}}s.
** ''JusticeLeague'' also had "War World".

* Manga/{{Golgo13}}: In [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Golgo_13_episodes "The Brutes' Banquet"]] 2 bloodsports followers have Golgo duel another assassin to see who wins.

* Manga/TokyoESP: In Part 2 of the series, Espers are forced into fights via tournament to the death or knock-down. [[spoiler:The protagonist herself enters into it to save as many as she can as an agent of the CIA.]]

* The premise of the movie ''Bloodlines'': a family of inbreds seeking new blood abducts girls and forces them to fight to the death to determine who the strongest is; the "winner" is then forcibly impregnated.

* One BronzeAge comic set this up between Franchise/{{Superman}} and ''Muhammad Ali''.

* ''TowerOfGod'' - Many tests that allow the Regulars to climb the Tower are tests designed to pit Regulars against Regulars.

* This happens in the Coliseum episodes of ''KinosJourney'', when Kino is forced to fight to amuse a country's insane despot.

* There's the trainer variation in ''MahouSenseiNegima'', [[spoiler: where [[LargeHam Jack Rakan]] turns out to be the final match out of the Ostia tournament]]. It was [[PlayingWithATrope almost]] going to be used in the [[TournamentArc Mahora Fest]], but then [[spoiler: Evangeline got knocked out by Setsuna.]] [[SureLetsGoWithThat But she MEANT for that to happen.]]

* In ''{{Cavewoman}}: Oasis'', Meriem is abducted and forced to fight in GladiatorGames in an arena called the 'Bowl of Bones'.

* In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa'', the prize is "graduation", i.e. "being able to leave high school[=/=]jail alive. The objective: kill your classmate without getting caught.

* In ''Danganronpa'', the prize is "graduation", i.e. "being able to leave high school[=/=]jail alive. The objective: kill your classmate without getting caught.

* In ''VideoGame/Danganronpa'', the prize is "graduation", i.e. "being able to leave high school[=/=]jail alive. The objective: kill your classmate without getting caught.

* The rat-coursing pit in ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents''.

* The novel ''[[Literature/JohnRain Hard Rain]]'' (not to be confused with the [[Film/HardRain film]], which is not related) has titular character (and hitman) John Rain go undercover in order to find a FightClub like this. He winds up killing his opponent.

* Max must participate on one against Blaster in the eponymous Thunderdome in ''MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''

*** The last shot is full-court, and Kurt Russell ''actually made the shot in real life''.

* In the ''SwordDancer'' series, Tiger is forced into a sword dance to the death he'd really rather avoid when Del is taken hostage. Fortunately, he's able to TakeAThirdOption.

* In ''[[TheHollows Dead Witch Walking]]'' by Kim Harrison, the protagonist, having transformed into a mink in order to spy on the BigBad, is caught and entered into a fighting competition with other small mammals. When one of her opponents turns out to be a transformed human himself, they coordinate an escape together.

* Happened in an episode of ''LaFemmeNikita'', when Nikita infiltrates a club that compels women to fight with [[ExplosiveLeash pain collars]].

* ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' "The Coming Of Arthur", after Merlin and Arthur and, seperately, Gwaine are captured by slave traders. There's an attempt to make Merlin fight Gwaine, but Arthur steps in.

* RackedSquad: in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB2iVqJ5ed0 'The Knock-Out']] a con game group stages [[TheBoxingEpisode boxing]] [[ForcedPrizefight 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.

* The novel ''[[JohnRain Hard Rain]]'' (not to be confused with the [[Film/HardRain film]], which is not related) has titular character (and hitman) John Rain go undercover in order to find a FightClub like this. He winds up killing his opponent.

* The novel ''Hard Rain'' (not to be confused with the [[Film/HardRain film]], which is not related) has titular character (and hitman) John Rain go undercover in order to find a FightClub like this. He winds up killing his opponent.

* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' episode 908 ''Babylon''.

* Two from ''{{MASH}}'':
** In "Requiem For A Lightweight," Hawkeye coaxes Trapper into a boxing match against a marine in order to keep a cute nurse from being transferred from the camp.
** "End Run," which dealt with a football player having a leg amputated, had a side story of Frank arranging a boxing match between Klinger and Sgt. Zale, who can't stand each other. They both wind up turning the tables on Frank.

* The Jeepers and Creepers cartoon "Busy Buddies" (Paramount, 1961) had Creepers in a boxing match to raise money for his delinquent income taxes. He wins, but now he owes for the money he just won.

* ''{{Unleashed}}'' (aka ''Danny the Dog'')-- Danny (played by Jet Li) is entered into such a tournament by the gangster who essentially owns him.

* The novel ''Hard Rain'' (not to be confused with the [[HardRain film]], which is not related) has titular character (and hitman) John Rain go undercover in order to find a FightClub like this. He winds up killing his opponent.

* One BronzeAge comic set this up between {{Superman}} and ''Muhammad Ali''.
* Some of the {{Superman}}/TheFlash races were like this.

* In the ''{{Batman}}/Wildcat'' mini-series, members of Batman's RoguesGallery are kidnapped and forced to fight one another in a series of cage matches.