According to the generally entertaining and occasionally accurate Wikipedia:
Boxing Day is traditionally a day following Christmas when wealthy people in the United Kingdom would give a box containing a gift to their servants.[1] Today, Boxing Day is better known as a bank or public holiday that occurs on December 26, or the first or second weekday after Christmas Day, depending on national or regional laws. It is observed in Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and some other Commonwealth nations.
Trivia: The only heavyweight champion to win his title on Boxing Day was Jack Johnson, who knocked out Tommy Burns in Sydney, NSW, Australia on Dec. 26, 1908.
Johnson also is the only heavyweight champ to fight a future Academy Award winner: In 1909, he fought an exhibition against Victor McLaglen, who won the 1935 Best Actor Oscar for "The Informer."
Yeah, I'm bored.
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