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Former light heavyweight champion Jose “Chegui” Torres has died in his native Puerto Rico. He was 72. His widow, Ramonita Ortiz, says Torres died Monday of a heart attack. Torres won the world light heavyweight title in 1965 by beating Willie Pastrano at Madison Square Garden in New York. He made three title defenses before losing to Dick Tiger in 1966. Torres began fighting when he joined the U.S. Army as a teenager, and won a silver medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics competing for the United States. After retirement, he became an author, chaired the New York State Athletic Commission in the 1980s and served as supervisor for the World Boxing Organization. Ortiz says Torres will be buried Thursday in Ponce. Right Cross Entertainment sends condolences to the family & friends of Jose Torres