Boxing terms in spanish

[RozzySean]

Thanks, that's helpful. My Spanish is OK for a gringo and I can follow along somewhat, but I didn't know a few of the those words. "Peso Gallo" cracks me up. Is Bantam an old English word for "rooster/cock"? I think we should start calling bantamweights "cockweights."

And I suppose it would be inappropriate to refer to strawweights as "pajeros"

[CGM]

How would a commentator say "Holy Shit!! He just took a big fucking bite out of his ear!!" in Spanish?

And what about the little bumfuck move Calzaghe pulled on Hopkins?

Just in case these things happen again during a Spanish broadcast.

[KananKrus]

This is quite a nice, informative thread.

In the Filipino language, meshed are a lot of Spanish and Latin words, undetected, without some form of structured instruction!

Nice to enable us to pick-up on it a bit easier, thanks, TS!

[RozzySean]

How would a commentator say "Holy Shit!! He just took a big fucking bite out of his ear!!" in Spanish?

And what about the little bumfuck move Calzaghe pulled on Hopkins?

Just in case these things happen again during a Spanish broadcast.

Something like, "Dios mio!!! Puta madre, El se mordi de la oreja un pedazo grande!"

Feel free to correct me, native speakers. I'm pretty sure a commentator wouldn't say puta madre, but that's the closest translation that comes to mind with my gringo Spanish.

[Tito BHB]

How would a commentator say "Holy Shit!! He just took a big fucking bite out of his ear!!" in Spanish?

And what about the little bumfuck move Calzaghe pulled on Hopkins?

Just in case these things happen again during a Spanish broadcast.

Something like, "Dios mio!!! Puta madre, El se mordi de la oreja un pedazo grande!"

Feel free to correct me, native speakers. I'm pretty sure a commentator wouldn't say puta madre, but that's the closest translation that comes to mind with my gringo Spanish.

OhMygodd.. BITCH MOTHER!

[Ofelia M.]

I joined this forum just to tell you guys, esp Killersheep and all the Spanish speakers what a great thread this is. I'm doing a translation with a lot of boxing terms and I love this thread!

[killersheep]

I joined this forum just to tell you guys, esp Killersheep and all the Spanish speakers what a great thread this is. I'm doing a translation with a lot of boxing terms and I love this thread!

Glad to be of service.

[Kel]

I joined this forum just to tell you guys, esp Killersheep and all the Spanish speakers what a great thread this is. I'm doing a translation with a lot of boxing terms and I love this thread!

Stick around

[HerbM]

Ok, I am late to this party (thread), but here is a method to get a lot more (most all) boxing terms in Spanish.

The trick works for other activities and other languages as well, so it is worth salting away for when you need to translate something:

Spanish Wikipedia has an article very similar to the (excellent) English article on Boxing. With a minimal knowledge of Spanish and a Spanish-English dictionary site (or a willingness to look up a LOT of words) you can pretty much figure out all the terms you are likely to need -- and for major ideas there will be link to the Spanish page for that term.

Boxeo - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

If your Spanish is weak (like mine) you can get some value by comparing the Spanish article to the English version (a quick survey indicates the two pages have most of the same sections and overall the same structure -- the Spanish may have even started as a translation of the English page but they are NOT exactly the same.)

For other activities you need the name of the activity in the target language to get started. With this you go to the main Wikipedia page (http://www.Wikipedia.org) where you can choose your desired language and then enter the search term in that language.

Next to English (3.2+ Million plus articles), German is the largest Wikipedia with over a million articles; there are 9 more languages with over 500,000 and 20 more with over 100,000 articles, so the trick works well for most of the well-known languages, and will work for major ideas in far more languages than this.

Many technical terms are explained in Wikipedia articles because it cannot be assumed that readers know what they mean -- so you get in place definitions which help you translate.

Another advantage to this trick is that you the terms in context, already in example sentences of how they will be used.

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HerbM

The Spanish boxing article goes on for many, many screens, but here is a SMALL sample:

Boxeo
El boxeo (del inglés boxing), también llamado a veces boxeo inglés o boxeo irlandés, y coloquialmente como box, es un deporte de contacto en el que dos contrincantes luchan utilizando únicamente sus puños con guantes, golpeando a su adversario de la cintura hacia arriba, dentro de un cuadrilátero especialmente diseñado a tal fin, en breves secuencias de lucha denominadas asaltos o rounds y de acuerdo a un preciso reglamento.

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Golpes
Existen cuatro tipos básicos de golpes en boxeo: jab, cruzado / cross o directo, gancho o uppercut y crochet. Si un boxeador es diestro (ortodoxo), su mano izquierda es la que lleva la delantera, mientras que la derecha se mantiene en posición trasera. Para un boxeador zurdo, las posiciones son opuestas a las antedichas. Para un ejemplo ilustrativo, la siguiente discusión parte desde la perspectiva de un púgil diestro:

Jab - Un puñetazo veloz y directo, lanzado con la mano delantera desde la posición de guardia.
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