History Main / TheBoxingEpisode

** There was also a first-season episode involving a illegal prison fight ring. Hannibal, B.A. and Murdock get themselves arrested so they can look into it (the scene where they crashed a car through a police station to get arrested made it to the opening credits), with B.A. being selected as a fighter. To prevent them from being separated, B.A. pretends to be a deaf-mute, with Hannibal acting as his interpreter.

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

* ''[[Series/{{CSINY}} CSI: New York]]'', 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/{{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.
* ''Series/Dan August'': The episode "The Meal Ticket", in which the murder victim is a boxer who collapses and dies from an overdose of drugs.

* ''Series/DempseyAndMakepeace'': In "The Prizefighter", Dempsey and Makepeace find the broken body of a bare-knuckle prizefighter on the street carrying counterfeit money. Posing as an American couple named Dwayne and Lu, they manage to get into the illegal underground fight.
* ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'': "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.

* ''Series/TheDoctorBlakeMysteries'': An exhibition boxing match turns sour when one of the boxers is seemingly beaten to death in front of hundreds of witnesses in "A Lethal Combination". Blake must determine the cause of death. Lucien's training as a boxer is touched on, as Jean asks him if he is tempted to pull the gloves on again.

-->'''Kowalski''': [[StockShoutOuts I coulda been... I coulda been....]]\\

** 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 he match.

* One of ''Series/BabylonFive'''s episodes, [[BizarroEpisode "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 one of the only episodes of the show in which almost nothing is important to the overall arc of the show.

* ''Series/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.

* For a [[TheGayNineties 1890s]] take, see the third episode of ''Series/MurdochMysteries'', "The Knockdown".

* ''Series/Porridge'' episode "The Harder They Fall" has Godber join the prison boxing team. It ends with a [[ThrowingTheFight fixed fight]] and a DoubleKnockout.

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

* Film/TheThreeStooges' second Columbia short, ''[[Recap/TheThreeStoogesPunchDrunks Punch Drunks]]''. Also, Shemp's first Columbia Stooge short, ''Fright Night'' (along with its remake, ''Fling in the Ring'').

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

* ''Series/TimeTrax'' featured a temporal fugitive from 3 centuries in the future who uses his superior physical development to win bouts.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''

* 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 GreenLantern without his Power Ring in a fistfight with a BadassNormal.

* Paramount's Modern Madcap 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 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).

** [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E27TheBigTallWish "The Big Tall Wish"]] is about a boxer, Bolie Jackson, having a comeback bout. His landlady's son says he'll make a big wish (hence the title) so that Bolie will win. This works, but then Bolie refuses to believe that he won because of a wish, which undoes it, [[DownerEnding costing him the bout and the boy his ability to believe in magic.]]
** [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E122Steel "Steel"]] has a boxing team arrive in town for a heavyweight bout, with the twist that human boxing has been outlawed and the boxer is a robot. It winds up being a man-versus-machine bout when the robot breaks down before the fight and its owner "Steel" goes into the ring in its place.
* ''Series/{{Voyagers}}'': "All Fall Down" is a better than usual example of this trope in a sci-fi series, in no small part because it focused on a fight, the 1938 rematch between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, which was significant for reasons outside of boxing.

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

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

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' season eight episode "The Homer They Fall," in which Moe coaches Homer into becoming a boxer after Homer is found to have an anomaly that allows him to take multiple hits without falling.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' 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.

* ''Series/TheMonkees'': "Monkees in the Ring"
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': "Mr. Monk Takes a Punch" is about Monk investigating an attempt on a professional boxer's life

* ''Series/RookieBlue'' had two "Fite Nite" and "Different, Not Better", which feature officers of the 15th division competing with other divisions in an annual charity boxing match.