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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 at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In 1965 he defeated Willie Pastrano to win the WBC and WBA 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.