Tuna Scanlan | |
Realname: | Tuna Williard Scanlan |
Nickname: | Tuna Frank |
Weight: | middle/light heavyweight |
Reach: | 700NaN0 |
Nationality: | Samoan/New Zealander |
Birth Date: | 12 July 1934 |
Birth Place: | Apia, Samoa |
Death Date: | 21 October 2014 (aged 80) |
Death Place: | Mount Roskill, New Zealand |
Style: | Southpaw |
Total: | 64 |
Wins: | 42 (KO 22) |
Losses: | 20 (KO 8) |
Draws: | 2 |
Tuna Williard Scanlan (12 July 1934 – 21 October 2014)[1] was a Samoan-born New Zealand professional middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1950s and 1960s.
Scanlan was born in Apia, Samoa.[2] He won the New Zealand Boxing Association middleweight title, and the British Commonwealth middleweight title, and was a challenger for the Australasian middleweight title against Clive Stewart. His professional fighting weight varied from 154lb, i.e. middleweight, to 164lb, i.e. light heavyweight.[3]
In 2014, Scanlan died in Ranfurly Hospital and Veterans Home, Mount Roskill, and was buried in Waikumete Cemetery.[4]