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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.
El Yerberito, Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico. 34,793 likes · 1,378 talking about this · 6 were here. Página Oficial de José Torres "El Yerberito".
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.
Feb 16, 2017 · The Portuguese game is honouring the memory of José Torres, the striker turned coach who represented Portugal at two FIFA World Cups and won nine league titles with SL Benfica.
Oct 8, 2022 · 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...
