charlie walk with his bulldog and find a good luck horseshoe when he pass a training camp that be look for a boxing partner who can take a beating . charlie would not take a beating and that he have decide . after watch the others lose and he put the horseshoe inside his glove and win . now the trainer prepare charlie to fight the world champion . can charlie win this time . there also a nasty gambler who want him to throw the fight . and there also some love in the air with the trainer daughter . what a great silent short from charles chaplin . the champion be from 1915 and it also star edna purviance ( trainer daughter ) and ernest van pelt ( spike dugan ) and lloyd bacon ( second sparring partner etc . ) and leo white ( crooked gambler ) . you can also see billy armstrong and ben turpin and broncho billy anderson . this be a perfect comedy . there no stop to laughter once you get start . when charlie train for his match and he keep get hit on his nose . when he show off to edna with the weight . how he kiss the dog on the head before go into ring . and the fight itself be priceless . how he get exhausted and swing from one side to another in the ring . and then we see the dog in the ring hanging from the behind of the opponent . hilarious and just hilarious .