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* ''{{Leverage}}'' - "The Tap-Out Job", where Eliot poses as a boxer as part of the heist, and the plot eventually leads to a (sort of) ForcedPrizeFight.

* TheMightyBoosh episode 'Killeroo' has Howard Moon duking it out against a face eating kangaroo. Being an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, Howard is thoroughly outclassed, and only prevails when [[spoiler: Vince crushes the kangaroo's balls]]. Also significant in that TheBoxingEpisode is also The Mighty Boosh' first broadcast episode.

* ''LoisAndClark'' had "Requiem for a Superhero", which featured the Daily Planet investigating why several boxers appeared to have strength beyond mortal men. They're robots, so of course, Superman gets to punch them out.

* ''{{Numb3rs}}'', episode 3x16, "Contenders." One of David's old friends is involved in the death of a boxer.

* ''{{MASH}}'' Trapper John (a surgeon!) is the 4077th's boxing champion; he takes on the champ of the 8063rd, a heavyweight enlisted man.

May involve an element of FightClubbing or GladiatorGames. Often this will be the result of a former boxer falling on hard times and entering a world of underground fighting to make ends meet, provide for his ailing child/wife/etc, or as an attempt to hang on to the limelight.

* ''StarTrekVoyager'' 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 several crew members are kidnapped to become gladiators.

* ''QuantumLeap'': Sam leaps into a boxer "owned" by a sisterhood of nuns.

* ''TheSimpsons''. The episode "The Homer They Fall" reveals Moe the Bartender to have been a former boxer who decides to manage Homer as a boxer after Moe learned how well Homer can take a beating and stay on his feet.

* One of the early episodes of DigimonSavers involved the MonsterOfTheWeek 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 GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex involved Batou investigating a famous boxer suspected of criminal activity.

* {{Gokusen}} has a boxing episode, as part of a [[SaveTheOrphanage Save The School]] plotline.
* {{Battlestar Galactica}} 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.

* MissionImpossible 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.

* ''ST: 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 several crew members are kidnapped to become gladiators.

* ''[[{{CSINY}} 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.

TheSimpsonsDidIt. Moe the bartender managed Homer as a boxer after he learned how well he can take a beating and stay on his feet.

->''' KOWALSKI''': Logic! Exactly! Boxing has nothing to do with logic. It is sport taken to its purest nut. It is muscles, sweat, guts, torque, load . . . I

mean, you ever meet a logical person who would bite off another man's ear?\\

Largely associated with MysteryOfTheWeek 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 [[ActionSeries action/adventure]] and [[CrimeAndPunishmentSeries crime solving series]], but they can also be played

for laughs in [[HalfHourComedy sitcoms]].

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.

* One of the early episodes of DigimonSavers involved the MonsterOfTheWeek 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...

* As mentioned in the intro quote, the third season ''DueSouth'' episode "Mountie and Soul" focused on boxing. Detective 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.

* ''{{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.
* ''LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', 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.
* ''TheATeam'', 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.

** [[JustifiedTrope 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 [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief Admiral, the Colonel, the CAG and most of the crew and

pilots present and engaged]], [[FridgeLogic one wonders what might have happened had the Cylons decided to attack right then]]...
* ''NYPDBlue'' 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.
* ''ST: 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 several crew members are kidnapped to become

gladiators.

* MissionImpossible 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.

* ''HappyDays'': 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.]]

* ''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:

** Then Louise bribes the other guy to throw the fight; meanwhile George decides to throw the fight himself, so they spend the entire fight not hitting each

other, waiting for the other to hit them so they can fall down. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1mvBhNXeUI Link.]]

* ''AreYouBeingServed'': 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.

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