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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.
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).
Torres made his professional debut with a first-round knockout of George Hamilton in Brooklyn, New York, on May 24, 1958. A popular fighter, he sold out New York's St. Nicholas Arena for his bout against Otis Woodard, which he won by a fifth-round TKO, on September 29, 1958.
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.
Jan 26, 2016 · 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 junior middleweight at the 1956...
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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 22, 2009 · Jose Torres, boxer, political activist, sports administrator, journalist, author: born Ponce, Puerto Rico 3 May 1936; 1965-67 world light-heavyweight champion; married Ramonita Ortiz;...
