José Torres
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| Real name | José Torres | |||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Chegüi | |||||||||
| Rated at | Light heavyweight | |||||||||
| Nationality |
 Puerto Rico
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May 3, 1936 Ponce, Puerto Rico |
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| Died | January 19, 2009 (aged 72) Ponce, Puerto Rico |
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| Stance | Orthodox | |||||||||
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| Total fights | 45 | |||||||||
| Wins | 41 | |||||||||
| Wins by KO | 29 | |||||||||
| Losses | 3 | |||||||||
| Draws | 1 | |||||||||
| No contests | 0 | |||||||||
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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 division at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In 1965, he defeated Willie Pastrano to win the WBC, WBA and lineal light heavyweight championships. Torres trained with the legendary boxing trainer Cus D'Amato. In 1997, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Born in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Torres began boxing when he joined the U.S. Army as a teenager (he was 17 years old). His only amateur titles had come in Army and Inter-Service championships, several of which he had won. Torres was still in the Army when he won the Silver Medal in the light middleweight division at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, where he lost to László Papp of Hungary in the final.
Torres trained at the Empire Sporting Club in New York City with trainer Cus D'Amato.
He was the 1958 National AAU Middleweight Champion and also won the 1958 New York Golden Gloves 160 lb Open Championship.
He debuted as a professional in 1958 with a first-round knockout of George Hamilton in New York. Twelve wins in a row followed, ten of them by knockout (including wins over contenders Ike Jenkins and Al Andrews), after which he was able to make his San Juan debut against Benny Paret, a future world welterweight champion from Cuba. Torres and Paret fought to a ten-round draw, and in 1960, Torres went back to campaigning in New York, where he scored three wins that year, all by decision, including two over Randy Sandy.
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