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Jan 20, 2009 · NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former world light heavyweight champion Jose Torres died on Monday at age 72, the International Boxing Hall of Fame said. Torres, who was also an Olympic medalist and New...
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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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. Torres represented the U.S. as a light middleweight at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and won a silver medal, losing to Laszlo Pappof...
After retiring in 1969, Torres worked for several years as an aide to Paul O'Dwyer, then president of the New York City Council. He later worked for Andrew Stein, borough president of Manhattan. Torres also was Puerto Rico's official New York City representative. Torres also worked as a writer. With the help of Pete Hamill, he got a column in the N...
Beset by health issues, Torres decided to return to Puerto Rico in 2007, though he still occasionally returned to New York, as he did in May 2007 when his nephew, Joel Torres, fought at Gotham Hall. Torres was home in Ponce when he died of a heart attack in the early hours of January 19, 2009. The mayor of Ponce declared three days of mourning and ...
1956 1. Silver Medalist (156 pounds) at the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Results: 1.1. Defeated Peter Read(Australia) PTS 1.2. Defeated Franco Scisciani(Italy) PTS 1.3. Defeated John McCormack(Great Britain) PTS 1.4. Lost to Laszlo Papp (Hungary) PTS 1958 1. Won the New York Daily News Golden Gloves Championship (160 pounds) vs. William Picket...
"José Torres, 72, Boxing Hall of Famer and Official, Dies" By Richard Goldstein, New York Times, January 19, 2009"Jose Torres dies at 72; former light heavyweight world champion" Los Angeles Times, January 20, 2009"Torres' legacy extends beyond the ropes" By George Kimball, ESPN.com, January 20, 2009"Obituary: José Torres" By Michael Carlson, the Guardian, January 25, 2009Jan 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;...
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.
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 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 ] In 1965, he defeated Willie Pastrano to win the WBC, WBA, and lineal ...
