History Main / TheBoxingEpisode

* In the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Boxing", the docs chase Lamput into a boxing arena. Lamput morphs into a pair of boxing gloves around Slim Doc's hands, dragging him into a boxing match with a much stronger boxer.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' has "The Noble Art". When a famous 1860 bareknuckle boxing bout is restaged in Midsomer Morchard with great pomp, dead bodies begin to pile up for Barnaby.

* Dynamo Doc, an obscure Creator/WalterLantz character, enters his canine protege Champ in a boxing match against a boxing kangaroo in "Punchy Pooch." In spite of Doc's schemes to put things in Champ's davor, it doesn't end well for him.

** ''When I Yoo Hoo" (1936) pits two rooster in a cockfight. When the bout is ruled a draw, the patrons storm the ring to attack the referee (who is also the precinct sheriff).

** "Bunny Hugged": A second Bugs vs. Crusher cartoon.

%%** "To Duck or Not to Duck": With WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck and Elmer Fudd. [[Do not add back without content]]
%%** ''Country Mouse'' (1935), ''When I Yoo Hoo'' (1936), ''WesternAnimation/PorkyAndDaffy'' (1938), and ''Count Me Out'' (1939). [[Do not add back without content.]]
* Paramount's ''Modern Madcap'': Stars Jeepers and Creepers have a cartoon called "Busy Buddies" in which Creepers has to make some money to pay an outstanding IRS debt. He unwillingly becomes a boxer in a match offering a $1000 cash prize. Thanks to Jeepers, he wins and pays off his immediate debt (but now he owes for the money he just won).

* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': In the episode "Requiem for an Urkel," when the series' main protagonist Steve Urkel (a nerdy, 98-pound weakling) has problems with a [[TheBully bully]] and the two get into a scuffle at school, a teacher has the two settle their differences in the ring. Urkel winds up receiving a beat down… but the others who were threatened by the bully declare their intent to fight the bully after he finishes off Urkel, causing him to run off.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* One of ''Series/BabylonFive'''s episodes, "TKO", has an old friend of Garibaldi's (a boxer named [[MeaningfulName Walker Smith]]) come back to Babylon 5 for an alien boxing match. This is also remarkable as [[BizarroEpisode one of the only episodes]] of the show in which almost nothing is important to the overall arc of the show.

* ''Series/Batman1966'' has an episode where Batman had to fight [[PaperThinDisguise The Riddler with a silly accent]] in a boxing match.
* The ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' episode "Unfinished Business" 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.
* On ''Series/{{Billions}}'' "Dollar" Bill and Mafee get into an altercation and their bosses decide to resolve the matter through a charity boxing match. Both men train for the event but turn out to be subpar boxers. They can throw a good punch or two but lack the stamina for a lengthy bout. The match quickly turns into a WimpFight. By round three they can barely lift up their gloves. By round four they can barely stand. They both collapse before round five and the match is declared a double loss.

** A late-season episode, "The Fight", centers around Chakotay's recreational boxing, which apparently was causing brain damage--but actually something else is going on that explains his weird visions and blackouts. Even the writer has [[ShrugOfGod no bloody clue]] what this plot was supposed to be about.
** In another episode, "Tsunkatse", Seven and Tuvok are [[ForcedPrizefight kidnapped to become gladiators]].
-->'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/voyager-season-five.html Doc Oho]]''': ''This would have only been an even more ridiculous sermon on boxing had they [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough shoved Seven of Nine into a leotard and had her take on The Rock]] but not even ''Voyager'' would go that far into the realms of madness."''

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E27TheBigTallWish The Big Tall Wish]]", the washed up boxer Bolie Jackson has a comeback fight against Joey Consiglio. After Bolie is knocked down, his young friend Henry Temple makes a [[TitleDrop big tall wish]] for the two boxers to switch places. The wish is granted and Bolie ends up winning the fight. However, Bolie does not believe that a wish could have allowed him to win and its effects are undone.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E122Steel Steel]]", the boxing promoter Steel Kelly, disguised as his malfunctioning B2 robot Battling Maxo, fights a B7 robot in Maynard, Kansas on August 2, 1974.

* ''Series/TheWayansBros.'': Marlon is taunted by Hector Macho Camacho who challenges him to a boxing match.

UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts may be used as a substitute for boxing. May involve an element of FightClubbing, GladiatorGames or a ForcedPrizefight. Often this will be the result of a former boxer [[FallenOnHardTimesJob falling on hard times]] and [[DirtyBusiness entering a world of underground fighting]] to [[SingleMomStripper make ends meet]], provide for his [[LittlestCancerPatient ailing child/wife/etc]], or as an attempt to hang on to the [[GloryDays limelight]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': "Rabbit Punch": WesternAnimation/BugsBunny has to take on the heavyweight champ after heckling him.

* Paramount's ''WesternAnimation/ModernMadcap'': Stars Jeepers and Creepers have a cartoon called "Busy Buddies" in which Creepers has to make some money to pay an outstanding IRS debt. He unwillingly becomes a boxer in a match offering a $1000 cash prize. Thanks to Jeepers, he wins and pays off his immediate debt (but now he owes for the money he just won).

* A Wing Dings blackout on ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' featured Klunk as a boxing champ with Zilly a reporter interviewing him. When Zilly asks what Klunk's record is, he replies "Brahm's Lullaby," plants a record over Zilly's head through the center hole, spins it and plays it with his "left hook."

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'''s "[[Recap/CSINYS06E20 Tales from the Undercard]]." In the course of the investigation, it's revealed that [[Creator/GarySinise Mac]] is a boxing fan, which helps him identify the victim as a boxer due to certain injuries.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'' Pickles quits smoking and become an adrenaline junkie. She tries boxing but is so vicious and dangerous she keeps moving to deeper and deeper sub-basements pummeling more and more people - including (by mistake) the "simple kid who fills the soda machines".

* The ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama All Stars'' episode "Suckers Punched".

* On ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Luanne takes up boxing to prove to men that she's not a sex object. Unfortunately, the boxing she takes up is foxy boxing and one of George Foreman's daughters challenges her to a real match to prove that she's untalented at the sport. She isn't, but the sheer determination she shows during the match is enough to get the men who were previously harassing her to start cheering her.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', "Rabbit Punch": WesternAnimation/BugsBunny has to take on the heavyweight champ after heckling him.
** Also there's "To Duck or Not to Duck": With WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck and Elmer Fudd.
** As well as ''Country Mouse'' (1935), ''When I Yoo Hoo'' (1936), ''WesternAnimation/PorkyAndDaffy'' (1938), and ''Count Me Out'' (1939).
* Paramount's ''WesternAnimation/ModernMadcap'' stars Jeepers and Creepers had a cartoon called "Busy Buddies," in which Creepers had to make some money to pay an outstanding IRS debt. He unwillingly becomes a boxer in a match offering a $1000 cash prize. Thanks to Jeepers, he wins and pays off his immediate debt (but now he owes for the money he just won).

** Two [[WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies Silly Symphony]] cartoons: ''Cock o' the Walk'' (1935) and ''Toby Tortoise Returns'' (1936).

* ''WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman'': In "It's Ruff in the Ring", In "It's Ruff in the Ring" Ruff wants to celebrate the Canadian Holiday "Boxing Day", But Chet signs him up for boxing match, [[LiteralMinded as he thinks it's about the sport Boxing]]. Unfortunately, his opponent is the big and burly "Whipped Cream Mcgee", and it's clear Ruff has no chance against him, he's forced to send the Fetchers to learn how to Box and build a protective helmet for Ruff so he can protect himself, When he gets back from the match, It's revealed Whipped Cream Mcgee lost because he laughed hysterically over Ruff's gear, leaving Ruff to win by default. But Mcgee comes to Ruff's doghouse, demanding a rematch, So Ruff uses a boxing dummy that looks like him to let Mcgee beat it up while he hides in the Fetch 3000.

* The ''Series/WithoutATrace'' episode "No Mas", in which the VictimOfTheWeek is a boxer who disappeared before a fight. [[spoiler:He's found alive, but the agents must then arrest him for murdering an associate]]

** ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' episode 27 have Hideki Goh befriending a boxer training for a championship match, before getting interrupted by the MonsterOfTheWeek, Gronken. The ending of the episode have Ultraman Jack fighting Gronken and the boxer fighting in the championship, rapidly inter-cut with each other simultaneously.
** In ''Series/UltramanTaro'', the main character, Kohtaro Higashi, being a professional boxer himself, is often featured in this trope. One episode have him boxing on stage mid-episode, then transforming into Ultraman Taro to fight a kaiju a few minutes later after the match.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had a late-season episode, "The Fight", 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. Even the writer has [[ShrugOfGod no bloody clue]] what this plot was supposed to be about. Also another episode, "Tsunkatse", where Seven and Tuvok are [[ForcedPrizefight kidnapped to become gladiators]].
-->'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/voyager-season-five.html Doc Oho]]''': ''This would have only been even more ridiculous sermon on boxing had they [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough shoved Seven of Nine into a leotard and had her take on The Rock]] but not even ''Voyager'' would go that far into the realms of madness."''

* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' has "hero gets beaten up by boxing monster and must learn boxing" as one of its stock plots.

* ''Series/NewTricks'': In "Gloves Off", the gun used to murder a talented young boxer 11 years ago surfaces in an armed robbery and UCOS is drawn into the darker side of professional boxing. Jack, Gerry and (perhaps most surprisingly) Strickland are all revealed to be boxing fans, with Gerry and Strickland having boxed in their younger days.

* The ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' 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 [[GatlingGood Gatling]] [[EnergyWeapon laser]] cannons for cuffs, but those aren't used in the boxing match).
* An episode of ''Series/PunkyBrewster'' had boxing champion Marvin Hagler showing Punky how to defend herself after a bully at school beats her up.

* In a ''Series/RemingtonSteele'' 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.
* ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' had an episode where Jim and Rocky had invested in some boxer, and there was a fair amount of corruption surrounding his manager.

* ''Series/SkippyTheBushKangaroo'' has an episode where boxers set up a training area in the part. It ends up in showing [[BoxingKangaroo Skippy wear boxing gloves]] though she never actually boxes.
* ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'' has "The Heavyweight," in which a boxer is ordered to [[ThrowingTheFight throw a game]] but wins anyway because he can't bear to let his son down, getting himself in trouble with criminals.

* A ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch had British and Empire heavyweight champion Jack Bodell in a match against Sir Kenneth Clark. Guess who won.
* Part of the ''Series/{{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.

* The ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode "Death Takes a Dive" in which Jessica's old friend Harry [=McGraw=] is implicated in the death of a boxing manager, and manages to talk Jessica into taking over the role while she investigates.
* For an [[TheGayNineties 1890s]] take, see the third episode of ''Series/MurdochMysteries'', "The Knockdown".

* ''Series/ICarly'': the one-hour special "iFight Shelby Marx", in which Carly watches MMA fighter Shelby Marx (played by Music/VictoriaJustice) on TV and, [[IWasJustJoking as a joke]], challenges her to a match. [[OhCrap Shelby accepts.]]

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': the episode "Hundred Dollar Baby" centers around Dee taking boxing for self-defense and Charlie training for [[FightClubbing an underground fighting ring]].

* ''Series/TheJeffersons'': George boxed in the Navy, and puts the equipment on again after he gets in a disagreement with another man at the gym. Louise tried to plead with the man to go easy on George:

* ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'' investigated a boxing crime which led to ''Gene'' being implicated as the perpetrator.

* ''Series/LoisAndClark'' had "Requiem for a Superhero", which featured the Daily Planet investigating why several boxers appeared to have strength beyond mortal men. They're {{cyborg}}s.
* ''Series/LondonsBurning'' had two, both involving George, who ([[ActorSharedBackground like his character]]) is a fan of the sport and a noted amateur middleweight. On one occasion he was persuaded to enter a "Policemen vs Firemen" bout for charity, on another Billy talked him into an exhibition fight at his uncle's nightclub.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' had "The Noble Art". When a famous 1860 bareknuckle boxing bout is restaged in Midsomer Morchard with great pomp, dead bodies begin to pile up for Barnaby.

* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'': In the Season 2 episode "Deadweight", Miss Fisher investigates the death of a gang leader that is found outside a boxing tent. Inspector Jack Robinson goes undercover as a boxer.

* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': In the episode "Requiem for an Urkel," the series' main protagonist Steve Urkel (a nerdy, 98-pound weakling) has problems with a [[TheBully bully]] and the two get into a scuffle at school, a teacher has the two settle their differences in the ring. Urkel winds up receiving a beat down… but the others who were threatened by the bully declare their intent to fight the bully after he finishes off Urkel, causing him to run off.

* ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'' had "Shadow Boxer", which naturally revolved around a pair of [[ArtifactOfDoom cursed boxing gloves.]]

* An early episode of ''Series/TheFugitive'' had Richard Kimble working as a boxing cut man.

* Hilariously subverted in one episode of ''Series/GomerPyleUSMC,'' where Sgt. Carter challenges an obnoxious Navy officer to a boxing match, claiming to have once been known as "Killer Carter." Turns out that was in high school and the guy he challenged was a reigning fleet champion. Carter spends the whole episode training, the squad engages in a ZanyScheme to help him...and he goes down with one punch.

* In the ''Series/HogansHeroes'' episode "The Softer They Fall", Kinchloe boxed against a German (ThoseWackyNazis') as (naturally) part of a scheme to divert attention from a heist.
** There was more to it than that. Early in the episode, Kinch agreed to spar with the German boxer, Battling Bruno, and knocked him out. General Burkhalter told Klink that Hitler would be furious to find out that a German was defeated by a black man, bringing up Jesse Owens' performance at the 1936 Olympics. A rematch is slated - with a German referee, German judges and with Bruno wearing horseshoes inside his gloves. Kinch knocked out Bruno again but with their heist completed, Hogan threw in the towel, making Bruno the winner.

* The 1960s ''Series/Batman1966'' show had an episode where Batman had to fight [[PaperThinDisguise The Riddler with a silly accent]] in a boxing match.

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'' had "The Bittersweet Science". A borderline psychotic wannabe boxer starts beating to death anyone who mocks him ("So I'm a punching bag, huh?!")

* ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'': In one of the many {{Flashback}} episodes, Rob is in the Army, where everyone has to learn boxing and have at least three fights.
** He is the champion-of his unit. He has to confront a much better boxer from another unit- who who later goes on to become the world middleweight champion.

* As mentioned in the intro quote, the third season ''Series/DueSouth'' episode "Mountie and Soul" focused on boxing. Detective [[Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire Stanley Ray Kowalski]] is identified as not only a boxing fan, but also a layman coach for a young boxer implicated in a fellow boxer's death.
-->'''Kowalski''': [[StockShoutOuts I coulda been...I coulda been....]]\\

** The first season episode "Diefenbaker's Day Off" also featured boxing, since Fraser and Ray Vecchio help a former boxer.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has the main character box against someone too, against exactly one person... Afro Luffy is the result.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' #371 is a boxing story that scarcely features Batman at all.

* Max Linder's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn2Sjo4TyTY Boxing Match.]]''

* Film/TheThreeStooges' second Columbia short, ''Film/PunchDrunks''. Also, Shemp's first Columbia Stooge short, ''Fright Night'' (along with its remake, ''Fling in the Ring'').

* A chapter of the ''Manga/CatsEye'' manga has Toshio being roped into representing his precint in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police boxing tournament, as while he's rusty he practiced boxing in high school and maintained a powerful right hook, while his opponent has only started recently... [[OhCrap After a long karate career]]. [[spoiler:Toshio, who was planning to finally propose to Hitomi if he won, wins by ''disqualification'', as he bets everything on his first hook and charges with such fury his opponents panics and [[DamnYouMuscleMemory kicks him hard enough to knock him out]].]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' at one point had a HeroicBSOD / EasyAmnesia combo, and in a new guise of ... some guy who's name isn't important, he started boxing. This makes him for his own experience a bit of a LegacyCharacter because his father was a boxing champion as well. This happens for a few issues so it's not an "episode" per se more of an arc, but still goes.

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}}'' 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 ComicBook/GreenLantern without his Power Ring in a fistfight with a BadassNormal.

* ''Series/AllyMcBeal'', with kickboxing.

* ''Series/ColdCase'': "Yo Adrian", doubling as a WholePlotReference to ''Film/{{Rocky}}''.
** Although it is not the main focus, boxing also plays a significant role in "Shore Leave". The VictimOfTheWeek was a young marine about to ship out to Korea. On the day he was murdered, he defeated a petty officer who was the ship's reigning boxing champ, making the petty officer a viable suspect. The opening scene of the episode is the boxing match between them.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', episode 6x20, "Tales from the Undercard." In the course of the episode it's revealed that Mac (Creator/GarySinise) is a boxing fan, which helps him identify the victim as a boxer due to certain injuries.

* ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'': in one of the many {{Flashback}} episodes Rob is in the Army, where everyone has to learn boxing and have at least three fights.

* In ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'', one two-parter[[note]]The series uses two-parters exclusively[[/note]] has the VictimOfTheWeek be a boxer who's being forced into retirement for health reasons, while the villains try to expoit his desire to get back in the ring.

* ''Series/TheMonkees'': "Monkees in the Ring".

* A ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch had Britsh and Empire heavyweight champion Jack Bodell in a match against Sir Kenneth Clark. Guess who won.

* A Wing Dings blackout on ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' featured Klunk as a boxing champ with Zilly a reporter interviewing him. When Zilly asks what Klunk's record is, he replies "Brahm's Lullaby," plants a record over Zilly's head through the centerhole, spins it and plays it with his "left hook."

* ''WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman'': In "It's Ruff in the Ring", In "It's Ruff in the Ring" Ruff wants to celebrate the Canadian Holiday "Boxing Day", But Chet signs him up for boxing match, [[LiteralMinded as he thinks it's about the sport Boxing]]. Unfortunately, his opponent is the big and burly "Whipped Cream Mcgee", and it's clear Ruff has no chance against him, he's forced to send the Fetchers to learn how to Box and build a protective helmet for Ruff so he can protect himself, When he gets back from the match, It's revealed Whipped Cream Mgee lost because he laughed hysterically over Ruff's gear, leaving Ruff to win by default. But Mcgee comes to Ruff's doghouse, demanding a rematch, So Ruff uses a boxing dummy that looks like him to let Mcgee beat it up while he hides in the Fetch 3000.