José Torres
José Torres was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States on May 3rd, 1936 and is the Boxer. At the age of 72, José Torres biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Amateur career
Torres, a native of Ponce, Puerto Rico, began boxing as a child when he joined the United States Army (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 earned the Silver Medal in the light middleweight division of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, where he lost to Hungary's László Papp in the final.
Torres underwent training 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.
Professional career
With a first-round knockout of George Hamilton in New York in 1958, he debuted as a professional. Twelve victories in a row were followed by a win (including those against opponents Ike Jenkins and Al Andrews), and after which he was able to face Benny Paret, a future world welterweight champion from Cuba, he was able to make his San Juan debut against Benny Paret, a future world welterweight champion from Cuba. Torres and Paret were drawn in a ten-round draw, and Torres returned to New York in 1960, where he had three wins that year, including two over Randy Sandy.
Torres won in a rematch with Hamilton at Ponce in 1961. He had six other fights this year, winning all of them by knockout.
Torres kept his knockout streak alive into 1962 with three more knockout victories; but, in 1963, he suffered his first defeat, being stopped in five by Cuba's Florentino Fernández, the only boxer to defeat Torres by a knockout as a professional. Torres went back to work and had one more fight this year, and this time around, he defeated another top contender, Don Fullmer, Gene Fullmer's brother, in a ten-round decision in New Jersey.
Torres defeated a group of name boxers, including Jose Gonzalez, Walker Simmons (twice), Frankie Olivera, Gomeo Brennan, and former World Middleweight champion Carl Olson (Bobo). Torres was ranked number one among Light Heavyweight challengers before this, and his championship shot would be shortly.
In 1965 at Madison Square Garden, it was a riot. Torres defeated Willie Pastrano, the International Boxing Hall Of Fame member and World Light Heavyweight champion. Torres was the third Puerto Rican world boxing champion and the first Latin American to win the world Light Heavyweight championship, defeating Pastrano in round nine. He defeated Tom McNeeley (father of former Mike Tyson competitor Peter McNeeley) in San Juan later this year, winning a ten-round contest.
With 15-round decisions over Wayne Thornton and Eddie Cotton, and a two-round knockout of Chic Calderwood, he successfully defended his crown three times. He'll lose his case to another Hall of Fame member, Nigeria's Dick Tiger, by a vote in 15 rounds in his next defense.
He and Tiger were rematch in 1967, but Torres lost in a 15-round match once more. Many supporters believed he should have won it at that time, and as a result, a massive protest followed the fight.
Torres only fought twice more after losing to Tiger in their second match, then dropping out of football after 1969.