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José Louis "Chegüi" Torres (May 3, 1936 – January 19, 2009) was a Puerto Rican-born professional boxer. As an amateur boxer, he represented the United States and won a silver medal in the middleweight division at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.
Apr 30, 2024 · José Torres was a Puerto Rican professional boxer, world light heavyweight (175 pounds) champion, 1965–66. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Torres was a member of the 1956 U.S. Olympic boxing team and a silver medalist in the light middleweight (71 kg, or 156.5 pounds) division.
Oct 8, 2022 · Torres and Cus D'Amato. Torres floors Willie Pastrano to win the light heavyweight title. Jose "Chegui" Torres was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on May 3, 1936. He joined the U.S. Army when he was 17 years old — As Puerto Ricans have been United States citizens since 1917 — and started boxing to avoid KP duty.
Jan 20, 2009 · José Torres, a former light-heavyweight champion who became a boxing official and a literary presence in the sport as a biographer of Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, died Monday in Ponce, P.R. He...
José Augusto Costa Sénica Torres OM (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ ˈtoʁɨʃ]; 8 September 1938 – 3 September 2010), nicknamed "O Bom Gigante" ("The Kind Giant"), was a Portuguese football centre-forward and coach. Most of his 21-year senior career was spent at Benfica, with great individual and team success (13 major titles).
Highlights of the former Light-Heavyweight champion.Jose Torres - Was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur boxer, he won a silver medal in the ju...
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José Louis "Chegüi" Torres was a Puerto Rican-born professional boxer. As an amateur boxer, he represented the United States and won a silver medal in the middleweight division at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In 1965, he defeated Willie Pastrano to win the WBC, WBA, and lineal light heavyweight championships.
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