Real name Tuna Williard Scanlan Wins 42 (KO 22) Total fights 64 Nickname(s) Tuna Frank Name Tuna Scanlan | Reach 70 in (178 cm) Role Boxer Draws 2 Nationality Samoan/New Zealander Height 1.70 m | |
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Tuna Williard Scanlan (12 July 1934 – 21 October 2014) was a Samoan-born New Zealand professional middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1950s and 1960s.
Scanlan 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 70 kg (154 lb), i.e. middleweight, to 74 kg (164 lb), i.e. light heavyweight.
In 2014, Scanlan died in Ranfurly Hospital and Veterans Home, Mount Roskill, and was buried in Waikumete Cemetery.
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