José Louis "Chegüi" Torres (May 3, 1936 – January 19, 2009) was a Puerto Rican-born professional boxer who fought representing the United States. [1] As an amateur boxer , he won a silver medal in the middleweight division at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne . [ 1 ]

Jan 15, 2025 · 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

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Oct 8, 2022 · Torres was inducted World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1994 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1997. In the 2000s, he continued to cover the sport of boxing and worked as an analyst for ESPN Deportes.

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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...

Jan 23, 2009 · Former light-heavyweight boxing champion Jose Torres died from a heart attack on Jan. 19 at the age of 72. The Puerto Rican boxer won an Olympic silver medal in 1956, and fought professionally...

José (“Chegüi”) Torres (May 3, 1936 – January 19, 2009), was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur boxer, he won a silver medal in the junior middleweight at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

Jose Torres is boxing's renaissance man: Olympian, world champion, author, administrator and now Hall of Famer. Like many successful amateur fighters, Jose began fighting when he joined the U.S. Army at the age of 18.

Jose Torres, Chegui (born May 3, 1936), is a Puerto Rican who is a former boxer and the first hispanic ever to win the world Light Heavyweight championship. Torres was born in the Playita sector of Ponce, the same area that Sor Isolina Ferre would later call home.