History Main / BoxingBattler

* In ''Series/TheDoctorBlakeMysteries'', Lucien Blake displays some serious pugilistic talent. When he squares off against a local thug in "An Invincible Summer", he drops into a stance that shows he has had proper boxing training and takes his opponent, who is much bigger and heavier. In TheBoxingEpisode "A Lethal Combination", Jean asks him if he is tempted to pull the gloves on again.

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* ''Aoki Densetsu Shoot!'': The goalkeeper of Fujita East High School uses boxing techniques to defend the goal. But since he's taking a boxing stance, this makes him susceptible to tunneling balls.

* In ''Manga/KenganAshura'', Gaolong Wongsawat is the heavyweight boxing champion of the world and averts the typical habit of boxers being jobbers in Martial Arts stories by being a powerhouse capable of shocking agility. Even then, his primary fighting style is actually Muay Thai and he took up boxing to compensate for its lack of punches.

* ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'' has a couple examples:
** Whenever forced to fight hand-to-hand, [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Ginko]] resorts to his fists. He's so good that most opponents go down with one shot, and the rare times he has fought Diabolik unarmed his fists tended to overcome his sophisticated martial arts.
*** On one memorable occasion, Ginko had been captured by a gang but managed to free himself and started sneaking around, punching out any {{Mook}} he saw with [[OneHitKO one hit]]. One of the guys he took down was ''Diabolik'', uppercutted into unconsciousness before he could notice Ginko-or ''Ginko could recognize him''.
** One-shot character Big Bolt was a former boxer, who could have been the world champion if the mob hadn't ruined his leg for not taking a dive, a task that required a dozen {{Mooks}}[=-=]most of which had to be hospitalized afterwards. Ginko mentioned he was his childhood hero, having been taken by his father to watch one of his matches, and Diabolik, after meeting him in his old age, had to admit his fist was too fast to see, and described being punched by him as "[[MegatonPunch Then I was hit by a freight train or something]]".
* ''ComicBook/BlackHammer'': Abraham Slam is a non-superpowered hero who fights crime with his world-class boxing skills.

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* ''Film/{{Fearless 2006}}'': Jet Li's character faces off against representatives of three separate fighting styles; among them is a British boxer, though he gets easily defeated by Jet Li's kung fu.
* In ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', the villain Professor Moriarty is described as the former boxing champion of Cambridge University and mainly uses boxing techniques during the climactic fight scene, in contrast to Holmes' hybrid-Bartitsu-esque style.

* In ''Film/BlackKnight2001'', Jamal uses boxing moves to defeat three medieval bullies, who were quite strong but clearly didn't know how to fight, and were confused by Jamal's stances and footwork.
* George Chambers in ''Film/UndisputedIILastManStanding'' is a former heavyweight boxing champion thrust into prison vale tudo fighting. Despite his handicap, he's actually able to hold his own in his first fight against the "complete fighter" Yuri Boyka before being drugged and knocked out.

* ''Literature/AftermathLifeDebt'' establishes that Grand Admiral Rae Sloane competed in NCB, or Naval Corps Boxing, during her cadet days in the Imperial Navy, and always ranked highly despite never winning a championship. In the present day, she's still quite skilled at it.
* Quite a few characters in Kameron Hurley's ''Literature/BelDameApocrypha'' trilogy, including the protagonist, Nyx, are trained competitive boxers since boxing (which is much more brutal in that world than our own) is popular and a decent way to make some money. May be AuthorAppeal, since Hurley trained as a boxer.
* Several hares in the ''Literature/Redwall'' books are boxers: Sergeant Wonwill in Rakkety Tam, Maudie Thropple in Eulalia! and Stiffener Medick and his grandsons Southpaw and Bobweave in Lord Brocktree are all boxing hares.

* ''Series/TheWire'': When ex-con Cutty decides to open up a boxing gym for at-risk youth, he doesn't get any traction until he takes to the streets and shows a few corner hoppers how to fight using boxing techniques. That sparks an interest in his gym, though he has to make it clear that boxing is for sport, not street fighting.

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* Esther de Groot, of the Webcomic/BobbinsVerse, is a skinny {{goth}} girl who often wears a tutu. She fights under the Marquess of Queensbury rules, and her record when last reported was [[http://www.scarygoround.com/scare/?date=20101112 28 fights, won 27 (14 by TKO), drawn 1.]] And as [[http://www.scarygoround.com/scare/?date=20101115 she demonstrates here,]] she's perfectly able to employ these skills in no-holds-barred combat with other martial artists, even if she's not above using dirty tricks and psychology to get an edge on them.

* Vi from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'' is skilled with her fists beyond what one might expect of someone who likely gets into messy street fights fairly often. For instance, she holds the top 10 high scores on a sparring robot at a local arcade, and the brief scene of her training on it shows she has impressive speed, offensive and defensive techniques, and power. She'll kick or even use [[ImprovisedWeapon Improvised Weapons]] if needed, but boxing is her major strength.

* Quite a few characters in the ''Literature/BelDameApocrypha'' trilogy, including the protagonist, Nyx, are trained competitive boxers since boxing (which is much more brutal in that world than our own) is popular and a decent way to make some money.

* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' has a Nazi soldier try to box with Indy. Indy does not even try to fight him; waiting for the [[DeadlyRotayFan running airplane propeller instead]].

* Tokugawa Ieyasu from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara: Samurai Heroes'', as a part of his CharacterDevelopment, shifts from being a [[BladeOnAStick spear-wielder]] to a bare-fisted boxer. Complete with wearing a boxer's hoodie.

* Ryoko, protagonist of ''LightNovel/OkamiSan'', uses boxing techniques and even has a pair of electrified [[PowerFist boxing gloves]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': A former villain by the name of "Turn-Buckle" is mentioned by Monarch during a spiel on the pre-GOCI days, being an aspiring supervillain who, true to this trope, styled himself on a early 20th-century boxer's theme. His attempt to claim fame was by kidnapping a young Rusty Venture and challenging Rusty's bodyguard to win the boy back. Unfortunately, Rusty's bodyguard happened to be the Action Man (no, not [[Franchise/ActionMan that one]]) who was ''leagues'' above Turn-Buckle's skill level and had no compunctions about fighting "fair", especially not with a would-be kidnapper--Poor Turn-Buckle found himself pistol-whipped into the ground "like a tent pole" and finished off with a [[BoomHeadshot coup-de-grace to the head]], ending his career before it began.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': A former villain by the name of "Turn-Buckle" is mentioned by Monarch during a spiel on the pre-GOCI days, being an aspiring supervillain who, true to this trope, styled himself on a early 20th-century boxer's theme. His attempt to claim fame was by kidnapping a young Rusty Venture and challenging Rusty's bodyguard to win the boy back. Unfortunately, Rusty's bodyguard happened to be the Action Man (no, not [[Franchise/ActionMan that one]]) who was ''leagues'' above Turn-Buckle's skill level and had no compunctions about fighting "fair", especially not with a would-be kidnapper--Poor Turn-Buckle found himself pistol-whipped into the ground "like a tent stake" and finished off with a [[BoomHeadshot coup-de-grace to the head]], ending his career before it began.

* A former villain by the name of "Turn-Buckle" is mentioned by Monarch during a spiel on the pre-GOCI days, being an aspiring supervillain who, true to this trope, styled himself on a early 20th-century boxer's theme. His attempt to claim fame was by kidnapping a young Rusty Venture and challenging Rusty's bodyguard to win the boy back. Unfortunately, Rusty's bodyguard happened to be the Action Man (no, not [[Franchise/ActionMan that one]]) who was ''leagues'' above Turn-Buckle's skill level and had no compunctions about fighting "fair", especially not with a would-be kidnapper--Poor Turn-Buckle found himself pistol-whipped into the ground "like a tent stake" and finished off with a [[BoomHeadshot coup-de-grace to the head]], ending his career before it began.

* Yuu from ''Manga/{{Holyland}}'' starts out using boxing because it was the first thing he picked up. While he moves away from pure boxing as the story goes on, the boxing cross remains his best weapon, and he later takes lesson from an amateur boxer to improve his skills.
** Yamazaki is a skilled fighter that uses boxing techniques. {{Justified}} in that he's actually a boxer, the champion from the club at Yuu's school and one of the best in the entire prefecture, who at one point picked a fight with Yuu to prove a point and gave him a hell of a fight before losing to his kicks. Even then, and in spite having trouble adapting to street fights, his technique is considered top notch, with Yuu talking him into giving him lessons.

* Ikki Takeda "The Puncher" in ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' is a boxer who frequently matches up with martial artists. Although he twice lost matches against [[IdiotHero Kenichi]], the first match he was [[HandicappedBadass only using one hand]] and the second match was stopped by his trainer. He later does much of his training in the underground fighting rings, where he goes against people of all sorts of fighting styles and wins with his fists.

** Ideo, King Elizabello II and Kelly Funk from the Corrida Colosseum. Special mention to Elizabello and his King Üunch. It's said to be sufficient to bring down a Yonkou, but he can only use it once per hour and is largely helpless while he's building up the momentum to perform it. He can, however, fire it off early at the cost of reduced power.

* In ''Manga/RatMan'', the titular character initially relies solely on being UnskilledButStrong, before later realsing that he needs to actually learn how to fight to deal with his opponents that are equally strong or stronger. So he starting training in boxing to develop actual fighting skills.
* In ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Saito Hajime is a swordsman, but fights like a professional boxer when barehanded. This allows him to wipe the floor with Sanosuke Sagara, who learned to fight in the streets and is normally able to defeat martial artists with GoodOldFisticuffs.
* In ''Manga/SengokuYouko'', Douren is a BoisterousBruiser [[WarriorMonk monk]] who came across a manual on Western boxing techniques and discovered that they were a perfect fit for his fighting style, enabling him to dodge attacks from UnskilledButStrong enemies and [[CounterAttack strike back when they present an opening]]. In the present day Douren is the WorldsBestWarrior and refers to boxing as [[TheGreatestStyle "the ultimate martial art"]].

* Ichise from ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}''. Given that he's a prize fighter, it makes sense that his fighting style consists of boxing techniques.
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Murota is a bit character who gains [[CombatClairvoyance the ability to read minds]] at one point. He uses the powers to become a successful boxer, but also cleans the floor with some of Yusuke's allies using boxing moves. [[MuggingTheMonster He then tries the same with Yusuke, who's so fast Murota can't dodge his attacks even with Yusuke telling him how, where and when he'll attack and so strong he can punch him out with the shockwave of a punch he's holding back]].

** Kate Kane's dad taught her to box, and she was a boxer during her time at West Point, with evidence she even won a school championship. Flashbacks to her Comicbook/{{Batwoman}} training depict her continuing to learn that style.

** The Champion of the Universe, a cosmic-level entity, knows many fighting styles and has access to the Power Eternal. Despite this, he used the power primarily to hone his body to physical perfection (as opposed to other wielders of the power who use energy blasts or more creative uses), and chooses to go from planet to planet, challenging the best of the planet to boxing matches with the fate of the planet on the line should he win.

*** In one memorable occasion, Ginko had been captured by a gang but managed to free himself and started sneaking around, punching out any {{Mook}} he saw with [[OneHitKO one hit]]. One of the guys he took down was ''Diabolik'', uppercutted into unconsciousness before he could notice Ginko-or ''Ginko could recognize him''.

* The protagonists of [[Creator/LouisLAmour Louis L'Amour]]'s works are often trained in boxing (a suspicious number by the frequently name-dropped real-world boxer Jem Mace), and tend to find themselves up against fighters who use less scientific methods, or had been used to simply relying on size and strength to beat weaker opponents. L'Amour himself was a professional boxer when he was younger.

* Quite a few characters in the ''Literature/BelDameApocrypha'' trilogy, including the protagonist, Nyx, are trained competitive boxers, since boxing (which is much more brutal in that world than our own) is popular and a decent way to make some money.

* ''Series/TheWire'': When ex-con Cutty decides to open up a boxing gym for at-risk youth, he doesn't get any traction until he takes to the streets and shows a few corner hoppers how to fight using boxing techniques. That sparks an interest in his gym, though he has to make to clear that boxing is for sport, not street fighting.

* Wrestling/BrockLesnar did this to Wrestling/BrawnStrowman when the latter knee'd him in the face, causing the former to lash out with a 1-2 punch.

-->Teddy Long:"You got to box like Rodney Mack, knock the white boy out!"

* The TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness has this as one of the basic fighting styles, (a series of Merits that relate to a single way of fighting) allowing for haymakers, body and combination blows, better dodging ability and even one-hit [=KOs=] and channeling your willpower into Lethal (very heavy) Damage. You can even mix in grapples and dirty moves if you spread your points out.

* Yugo Ohgami, from ''VideoGame/BloodyRoar'', is a professional boxer, who also uses martial arts and street fighting. This makes him more of a MMA-style character, though boxing is his primary means of attack.
* ''VideoGame/BodyBlows'': Junior is a boxer who has a background similar to that of Street Fighter's Balrog. However this British Boxer differs in that he didn't turn to criminal activity following his ban from boxing and instead looked for a new fighting circuit to prove himself in skill and honor.
* ''VideoGame/CruzBrothers'': The brothers are fight clubber with inspiration to get in a real boxing ring. Every characters aside the Boxing club (a Fight club shout-out) and the Sons of of Subversion refers from using kicks and use basic boxing moves.

* In ''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero'', Kaori Misaka has this as her fighting style, as she relies on punches, very fast footwork and evasion techniques; she's like a combination of Dudley from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' with Vanessa from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''.
* ''Real Bout VideoGame/FatalFury 2: The Newcomers'' gives us Rick Strowd, a champion Native American lightweight prizefighter (and former casino boxer) with some pretty wild and acrobatic maneuvers. He was in the running for a spot on the ''KOF '99'' roster, but lost out to fellow newcomer Li Xiangfei. Rick's electric moveset has since been partially assimilated by the aforementioned Vanessa, who in ''[[DreamMatchGame 2002]]'' has access to his [[BlowYouAway Hellion special]] and even uses his [[LimitBreak Gaia Gear P-Power]] as a [[LimitBreak HSDM]].

* T.J. Combo from ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'', he even wears RedBoxingGloves while some of the other fighters use swords and even [[LaserBlade laser swords]]. In the reboot however, he's much more of a mixed martial artist, adding grabs and kicks to his moveset.

* Cole Phelps from ''VideoGame/{{LANoire}}'' learned to box in the Army as an officer during [=WW2=]. These skills serve him well when subduing suspects as a detective in the course of the game. Of course, as the game takes place in 1940's America, before Eastern martial arts were popularized in the West, most of the NPC's use boxing-style fighting techniques as well.

* Joe Baker from the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' DLC ''End of Zoe'', is a bit of a break from other playable characters in the franchise in that he prefers not to use weapons, not even a knife like Tofu. He can, but his go to when dealing with the molded monsters [[spoiler:or his [[MadeOfIron still-not-dead brother]], [[TheHeavy Jack]],]] are his fists.

* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Night Shift]] of ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' was a retired professional boxer before becoming one of the Skylanders in charge of protecting Cloudbreak. Similarly, one of Terrafin's many jobs prior to full-time heroics was a boxer.

** Balrog from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', a big ScaryBlackMan with big RedBoxingGloves. Notably, his name in the Japanese version was Mike Bison, an obvious play off of real-life boxer Mike Tyson. The name was then given the BigBad (altered to M. Bison) to avoid being too obvious. In the tie-in comic he is soundly trounced by Ryu, who then claims that a fighter who neglects his entire lower body and two of his limbs has no right to call himself a martial artist.

* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'': R. Bear, the boss of Level 5 from Streets Of Rage 2, wears boxing gloves and keeps his fists in front of his face during the fight in a boxer's pose. Along with his gloves, his striped shirt, overalls, and lack of shoes bring to mind early 20th century pugilism. Despite his prodigious size, R. Bear is surprisingly fast and agile, almost dancing around the field on his tiptoes while keeping his fists in front of his face, emphasizing boxing's importance on footwork. This doesn't stop him from having some of the most damaging attacks in the game, though.

* Kazuma Kiryu of the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series uses techniques from various styles. However, he has more than a little boxing influence. This is most emphasized in the prequel ''Videogame/Yakuza0''. Two of Kiryu's three trainers, Bacchus and Kamoji, whom respectively teach the Brawler and Rush styles, are explicitly noted to have experience in boxing. Rush in particular features an emphasis on fast-footwork, RapidFireFisticuffs and a high-guard, bladed stance heavily influenced by boxing. Despite this, he notes that he would fare poorly as a professional boxer due to [[CombatPragmatist all the rules and regulations involved]] after beating an intoxicated boxer in a bad mood.
** Appropriately, also from Yakuza 0, RecurringBoss character Kuze is a former pro-boxer. These skills are large part of the reason he's able to repeatedly face-off against the much younger Kiryu and hold his own.
** Throughout the franchise, generic thugs fight with a number of styles, from martial arts to pro-wrestling. Boxing-type enemies are a common sight, recognized with their "dukes up" posture, bouncing stance and [[ExtremityExtremist punching attacks]].

** In ''Videogame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', Yosuke Tendo is also a former pro-boxer who looks somewhat like a Japanese Mike Tyson and the head of his own family. [[spoiler:He ends up being the game's proper FinalBoss and is tough enough to put up a fight against a group that consists of trained assassins, experienced cops and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hobos]], especially once he puts on a pair of knuckle dusters that allow him to deliver punches capable of insta-killing anyone]]. To a lesser extent, one of Saeko's starting moves is to do some punches she learned from boxercising.
** In ''Videogame/LostJudgment'', one of the side-activities involves Yagami joining a boxing club to investigate a particularly aggressive boxer. With DLC, he actually takes the skills from said club to use as a new [[StanceSystem fighting style]].

* Esther de Groot, of the Webcomic/BobbinsVerse, is a skinny {{goth}} girl who often wears a tutu. She fights under the Marquess of Queensbury rules, and her record when last reported was [[http://www.scarygoround.com/scare/?date=20101112 28 fights, won 27 (14 by TKO), drawn 1.]] And as [[http://www.scarygoround.com/scare/?date=20101115 she demonstrates here,]] she's perfectly able to employ these skills in no-holds barred combat with other martial artists, even if she's not above using dirty tricks and psychology to get an edge on them.

* ''VideoGame/TransformersDevastation'': Probably as a tribute to his ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Prime]]'' counterpart, this is Bumblebee's default fighting style.
* A few in the ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' series:
** Steve Fox, who was a champion middleweight boxer before he ran into trouble with TheMafia. His style relies almost entirely on punch attacks, with the kick buttons being repurposed for various evasive techniques.
** Roger and Roger Jr., a pair of genetically engineered [[BoxingKangaroo kangaroos who were taught to box.]] They have a PaletteSwap named Alex, who's a boxing velociraptor. The pair use plenty of kicks and [[WrestlerInAllOfUs professional wrestling]] moves as well though.
* Akihiko Sanada from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' was a boxer before he became a Persona-user, and his style of fighting is still based around boxing moves.
* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' was quite a number of these in the numerous installments in the franchise.
** From ''VideoGame/StreetFighterI'', released in 1987, Mike was the very first fighter in the series to employ boxing as a fighting style. Though he has never been featured in any other game afterward, he was given a character profile for the Capcom Fighter Network (CFN) providing further details including that he was not the same individual as Balrog (read next entry for details).
** Balrog from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', a big ScaryBlackMan with big RedBoxingGloves. Notably, his name in the Japanese version was Mike Bison, an obvious play off of real-life boxer Mike Tyson. The name was then given the BigBad (altered to M. Bison) to avoid being too obvious. In the tie-in comic he is soundly trounced by Ryu, who then claims that a fighter who neglects his entire lower body and two of his limbs has no right to call himself a martial artist.
*** ''WebVideo/StreetFighterTheLaterYears'' also makes light of this: During the ''SFII'' reunion, once Balrog asks, [[ExtremityExtremist "What's a kick?"]], everyone else immediately knows who he is.
** Dudley from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' is a British boxer who's a QuintessentialBritishGentleman, though he does have a few illegal techniques in his roster. (Some fans posit that he may only use the illegal techniques we see in the series' tournaments and street fights, not in actual boxing matches.) He's also never seen without his [[RedBoxingGloves big blue boxing gloves]].
** Ed in ''Videogame/StreetFighterV'', having been raised by Balrog mixes up boxing with Psycho Power techniques.
* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'', two Hammers, one of them having boxing gloves and the other constantly chucking weights, attack Luigi in the Fitness Center. The boxing gloves block Luigi's Strobulb flashes, so he has to bait the one with the weights into throwing them into the other, rendering it dizzy and vulnerable to Luigi's Strobulb. [[BossInMookClothing It's much harder than it sounds.]]
* T.J. Combo from ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'', he even wears RedBoxingGloves while some of the other fighters use swords and even [[LaserBlade laser swords]]. In the reboot however, he's much more of a mixed martial artist, adding grabs and kicks to his moveset.
* Yugo Ohgami, from ''VideoGame/BloodyRoar'', is a professional boxer, who also uses martial arts and street fighting. This makes him more of a MMA-style character, though boxing is his primary means of attack.

* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''
** Heavy D!, as the leader of American Sports Team, uses standard boxing techniques in the KOF tournament.
** Vanessa combines boxing with {{flash step}}ping for truly RapidFireFisticuffs and insane combos!
** Nelson joined in KOF XIV to deliver more hard-hitting boxing combos, using a robotic arm as replacement for a loss of limb.
* ''Real Bout VideoGame/FatalFury 2: The Newcomers'' gives us Rick Strowd, a champion Native American lightweight prizefighter (and former casino boxer) with some pretty wild and acrobatic maneuvers. He was in the running for a spot on the ''KOF '99'' roster, but lost out to fellow newcomer Li Xiangfei. Rick's electric moveset has since been partially assimilated by the aforementioned Vanessa, who in ''[[DreamMatchGame 2002]]'' has access to his [[BlowYouAway Hellion special]] and even uses his [[LimitBreak Gaia Gear P-Power]] as a [[LimitBreak HSDM]] .

* ''VideoGame/OnimushaDawnOfDreams'': Roberto Frois is a [[ButNotTooForeign half-Japanese]] [[ReligiousBruiser Christian missionary]] whose weapon of choice are the "Exorcising Beads" implanted in his arms. Whereas the other characters use weapons like swords, almost all of Roberto's attacks are boxing techniques done by his fists (though he does have a roundhouse kick as one of his techniques). This means that when you use the special CounterAttack "[[OneHitKill Issen]]" as Roberto, you can actually [[SingleStrokeBattle slice through your enemies]] with your ''fists'' the same way if you would be using a sword.
* Tokugawa Ieyasu from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara: Samurai Heroes'', as a part of his CharacterDevelopment, shifts from being a [[BladeOnAStick spear-wielder]] to a bare-fisted boxer. Complete with wearing a boxer's hoodie.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': Little Mac from ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' appears in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]'' as an [[AssistCharacter Assist Trophy]], where he hits opponents using boxing techniques and dashes. He's actually one of the most useful Assist Trophies. He later got PromotedToPlayable in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU''. Everything he does is based around boxing. No cheap shots; just quick, clean, and powerful punches.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Hitmonchan from [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue the first generation games]] is a Pokémon able to use almost any punching technique (including {{elemental punch}}es), and has built-in RedBoxingGloves. Up until [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Generation IV]], it was pretty much useless, since the elemental punches were based on its awful Special Attack rather than Physical Attack, which as a boxer is obviously its better stat. The same generation also gave Hitmonchan a new ability in Iron Fist, which strengthens its punching attacks even more.
** [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Generation VII]] introduces a new boxing Pokémon in the form of Crabrawler, who is a pure fighting-typed coconut crab. Unlike Hitmonchan, its boxing glove-like pincers are blue.
* ''VideoGame/GodHand'' allows players to build their own combos, which of course lets players customize their moveset to use nothing but boxing moves. Even so, based on cutscenes and boss fights, Gene definitely has several boxing techniques and characteristics in his canon fighting style.
* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Night Shift]] of ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' was a retired professional boxer before becoming one of the Skylanders in charge of protecting Cloudbreak. Similarly, one of Terrafin's many jobs prior to full-time heroics was a boxer.
* Edward Falcon, TheHero of ''VideoGame/{{PowerStone}}'' relies on boxing techniques when fighting hand-to-hand.

* Cole Phelps from ''VideoGame/{{LANoire}}'' learned to box in the Army as an officer during [=WW2=]. These skills serve him well when subduing suspects as a detective in the course of the game. Of course, as the game takes place in 1940's America, before Eastern martial arts were popularized in the West, most of the NPC's use boxing-style fighting techniques as well.
* While the films never portray Franchise/IndianaJones' hand-to-hand combat skills as anything more than GoodOldFisticuffs, the PC adventure game adaptation of ''[[VideoGame/IndianaJonesandTheLastCrusade The Last Crusade]]'' shows him sparring with Barnett College's boxing coach in his off-hours. This comprises the game's combat tutorial. It's explicitly noted in dialogue that this is his way of practicing for pummeling Nazi agents.
* Dauntless of ''VideoGame/RisingThunder'' is a [[HumongousMecha giant robotic]] boxer with large fists colored like boxing gloves.

* Kazuma Kiryu of the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series uses techniques from various styles. However, he has more than a little boxing influence. This is most emphasized in the prequel ''Videogame/Yakuza0''. Two of Kiryu's three trainers, Bacchus and Kamoji, whom respectively teach the Brawler and Rush styles, are explicitly noted to have experience in boxing. Rush in particular features an emphasis on fast-footwork, RapidFireFisticuffs and a high-guard, bladed stance heavily influenced by boxing. Despite this, he notes that he would fare poorly as a professional boxer due to [[CombatPragmatist all the rules and regulations involved]] after beating an intoxicated boxer in a bad mood.
** Appropriately, also from Yakuza 0, RecurringBoss character Kuze is a former pro-boxer. These skills are large part of the reason he's able to repeatedly face-off against the much younger Kiryu and hold his own.
** Throughout the franchise, generic thugs fight with a number of styles, from martial arts to pro-wrestling. Boxing-type enemies are a common sight, recognized with their "dukes up" posture, bouncing stance and [[ExtremityExtremist punching attacks]].
** Korean gangster Joon-Gi Han of ''Videogame/Yakuza6'' fights primarily in a boxing style. In ''Like a Dragon'' as a playable character he [[spoiler:or more specifically his [[LegacyImmortality body double]]]] mixes up his fisticuffs with guns and knives.
** In ''Videogame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', Yosuke Tendo is also a former pro-boxer who looks somewhat like a Japanese Mike Tyson and the head of his own family. [[spoiler:He ends up being the game's proper FinalBoss and is tough enough to put up a fight against a group that consists of trained assassins, experienced cops and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hobos]], especially once he puts on a pair of knuckle dusters that allow him to deliver punches capable of insta-killing anyone]]. To a lesser extent, one of Saeko's starting moves is to do some punches she learned from boxercising.
** In ''Videogame/LostJudgment'', one of the side-activities involves Yagami joining a boxing club to investigate a particularly aggressive boxer. With DLC, he actually takes the skills from said club to use as a new [[StanceSystem fighting style]].
* ''VideoGame/BodyBlows'': Junior is a boxer who has a background similar to that of Street Fighter's Balrog. However this British Boxer differs in that he didn't turn to criminal activity following his ban from boxing and instead looked for a new fighting circuit to prove himself in skill and honor.
* Sophia Blazkowicz from ''VideoGame/WolfensteinYoungblood'' is officially described as a "bare-knuckle brawler" and is seen pounding a heavy bag in the first two trailers. However, this never comes into play in-game apart from her introductory cutscene, since both she and her twin sister use knives and hatchets for melee attacks.
* ''VideoGame/CruzBrothers'': The brothers are fight clubber with inspiration to get in a real boxing ring. Every characters aside the Boxing club (a Fight club shout-out) and the Sons of of Subversion refers from using kicks and use basic boxing moves.

* Marvelous Wrestling/MarcMero (formerly known as "Johnny B. Badd") used a boxing gimmick as a professional wrestler in the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]]. He came to the ring in boxing trunks rather than UnderwearOfPower and used boxing moves (albeit bare-knuckle) when he could.

* {{Wrestling/Undertaker}} from time to time. Mark Calaway is a big MMA fan with a few sources noting him to have his black belt in Karate & BJJ, but he also sometimes uses boxing stance in the ring, even getting dubbed WWE's best pure striker during his American Badass years. This stuck even after he went back to being The Deadman, [[https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/daydreaming2020/86542361/39097/39097_900.gif which showed best in his fight against Mark Henry & Viscera in 2007]].

* Elijah Burke aka D'Angelo Dinero was a former boxer. In his wrestling matches, he often uses punch combos and is fast enough to do RapidFireFisticuffs for real.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' allows you the emulate this if you dual-wield the caestus or other fist weapons, though some have a moveset more reminiscent of Kung Fu.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': Little Mac from ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' appears in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]'' as an [[AssistCharacter Assist Trophy]], where he hits opponents using boxing techniques and dashes. He's actually one of the most useful Assist Trophies. He later became PromotedToPlayable in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU''. Everything he does is based around boxing. No cheap shots; just quick, clean, and powerful punches.

* [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsII Dark Souls II]] allows you the emulate this if you dual-wield the caestus or other fist weapons, though some have a moveset more reminiscent of Kung Fu.
* Probably as a tribute to his [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Prime counterpart]], this is Bumblebee's default fighting style in ''VideoGame/TransformersDevastation''.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': Little Mac from ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' appears in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]'' as an [[AssistCharacter Assist Trophy]], where he hits opponents using boxing techniques and dashes. He's actually one of the most useful Assist Trophies. He later became an AscendedExtra, becoming playable in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU''. Everything he does is based around boxing. No cheap shots; just quick, clean, and powerful punches.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': Little Mac from ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' appears in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]] as an [[AssistCharacter Assist Trophy]], where he hits opponents using boxing techniques and dashes. He's actually one of the most useful Assist Trophies. He later became an AscendedExtra, becoming playable in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU''. Everything he does is based around boxing. No cheap shots; just quick, clean, and powerful punches.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'': Little Mac from ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' appears in this game as an [[AssistCharacter Assist Trophy]], where he hits opponents using boxing techniques and dashes. He's actually one of the most useful Assist Trophies. He later became an AscendedExtra, becoming playable in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU''. Everything he does is based around boxing. No cheap shots; just quick, clean, and powerful punches.
* ''VideoGame/PunchOut'': Though most boxers play the trope straight, others mix up their "boxing" style with moves and techniques that wouldn't be approved in a real-life boxing tournament, such as Dragon Chan landing kicks like in kung fu, Aran Ryan using headbutts, or Great Tiger using teleportation.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''

** The Earth Elemental 'frame Atlas pretty much has this effect going, with how his first ability is a super-powered punch, as well as the fact that his signature weapon is the Tekko, a pair of razor-PowerFists that gets an increased Status chance if Atlas is wielding them.

* Little Mac from ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' appears in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' as an [[AssistCharacter Assist Trophy]], where he hits opponents using boxing techniques and dashes. He's actually one of the most useful Assist Trophies. He later became an AscendedExtra, becoming playable in ''Wii U/3DS''. Everything he does is based around boxing. No cheap shots; just quick, clean, and powerful punches.
** It also goes without saying that all the opponents from ''Punch-Out!!'' and its sequels fit the trope, though most of them use moves that one would call "cheating" in any other setting such as kicking, magic, and maybe ''covering its stomach with a manhole''.

* [[Wrestling/XavierWoods Consequences Creed]], an {{Expy}} of Apollo Creed from the ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' films, from Wrestling/{{TNA}} fought like this.

* T.J. Combo from ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'', he even wears RedBoxingGloves while some of the other fighters use swords and even [[LaserBlade laser swords]]. He's an {{expy}} of Balrog from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''. In the reboot however, he's much more of a mixed martial artist, adding grabs and kicks to his moveset.