Media and Popular Culture
The sport is frequently referenced in popular culture:
- Homer Simpson on The Simpsons mentioned it three times: In the season one episode "Homer's Night Out,"Foxy Boxing is one of the places Homer and Bart stop at in their quest to find Princess Kashmir. On the season six episode "Lisa on Ice", he tells Lisa that "if the Bible has taught us nothing else--and it hasn't--it's that girls should stick to girl sports, such as hot-oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such." Later, on the season 12 episode "Tennis the Menace", Homer builds a tennis court, only to learn that tennis is not the same as foxy boxing (or as he calls it, "the sport where the chicks wail on each other").
- The King of the Hill episode "Boxing Luanne" centered on Luanne Platter becoming a foxy boxer for Buck Strickland.
- Miami Vice season one episode 9 "Glades" contains a scene of two women foxy boxing approximately 9 minutes into the episode. The owner of the club promoting the event even refers directly to the sport stating, "Foxy Boxing is what's in now"
- In the final episode of the TV Series Freaks and Geeks (Discos & Dragons, Season 1, Ep. 18) Seth Rogen's character Ken is thrown out of a disco club for causing a scene and making fun of disco music. As he's being escorted from the building, the bouncer at the disco club tells him not to worry too much because the disco will be shut down the following week in favor of foxy boxing.
- On the March 17, 2010 episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart compares the U.S. congressional debate over health care reform to foxy boxing.
- In the Family Guy episode 5 of season 9 Lois starts her "boxing career" as a foxy boxer.
- In Season 2, Episode 5 of 30 Rock, Kenneth throws a party rumored to have foxy boxing.
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