The World's Champion is a 1922 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

[3][4] As described in a film magazine,[5] William Burroughs (Reid) is the youngest son of an ambitious middle class English grocer trying to climb to a higher social plane.

The Lord's pretty cousin Lady Elizabeth (Wilson) gets her fishing line entangled with that of the grocer's son, and they are making fast headway towards friendship when Brockington discovers them.

William smuggles himself on a liner bound for the United States, and meets an Irish pugilist who teaches him during the way across the gentle art of knocking a man out cold.

Just as William is about to leave, the home is besieged by the mayor backed a bunch of haughty earls and lords, who want to know why the grocer is keeping secret the fact that he raised the middleweight champion.