# Tuna Scanlan

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{{Short description|Samoan / New Zealand boxer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox boxer
|name=Tuna Scanlan
|image=
|realname=Tuna Williard Scanlan
|nickname=Tuna Frank
|weight=[middle](/source/middleweight)/[light heavyweight](/source/light_heavyweight)
|height={{height|ft=5|in=7}}
|reach={{convert|70|in|cm|0|abbr=on}}
|nationality=[Samoan](/source/Samoans)/[New Zealander](/source/New_Zealanders)
|birth_date=12 July 1934
|birth_place=[Apia](/source/Apia), Samoa
|death_date=21 October 2014 (aged 80)
|death_place=[Mount Roskill](/source/Mount_Roskill), New Zealand
|style=[Southpaw](/source/Southpaw_stance)
|total=64
|wins=42 ([KO](/source/Knockout) 22)
|losses=20 (KO 8)
|draws=2
|no contests=
|medaltemplates=
}}
'''Tuna Williard Scanlan''' (12 July 1934 – 21 October 2014)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?pid=172897976 |title=Tuna Williard SCANLAN |publisher=New Zealand Herald |date= |accessdate=2 March 2021}}</ref> was a Samoan-born New Zealand professional [middle](/source/middleweight)/[light heavyweight](/source/light_heavyweight) boxer of the 1950s and 1960s.

Scanlan was born in [Apia](/source/Apia), [Samoa](/source/Samoa).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/boxing-former-middleweight-champ-scanlan-dies/W6YV5ANL2SKWZF5VWIMLUSOBM4/ |title=Boxing: Former middleweight champ Scanlan dies |publisher=New Zealand Herald |date=24 October 2014 |accessdate=2 March 2021}}</ref> He won the New Zealand Boxing Association middleweight title, and the [British Commonwealth middleweight title](/source/List_of_Commonwealth_Boxing_Council_Champions), and was a challenger for the Australasian middleweight title against Clive Stewart. His professional fighting weight varied from {{convert|154|lb|kg|0|abbr=on|order=flip}}, i.e. [middleweight](/source/middleweight), to {{convert|164|lb|kg|0|abbr=on|order=flip}}, i.e. [light heavyweight](/source/light_heavyweight).<ref name="Statistics at boxrec.com">{{cite web|url=http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=39568&cat=boxer|title=Tuna Scanlan|publisher=Boxrec|date=31 December 2012|accessdate=1 January 2013}}</ref>

In 2014, Scanlan died in Ranfurly Hospital and Veterans Home, [Mount Roskill](/source/Mount_Roskill), and was buried in [Waikumete Cemetery](/source/Waikumete_Cemetery).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/tuna-scanlan-passes-266329 |title=Tuna Scanlan passes |date=28 October 2014 |website=Fightnews.com |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051034/http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/tuna-scanlan-passes-266329 |archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Boxrec|id=39568}}

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Category:1934 births
Category:2014 deaths
Category:Burials at Waikumete Cemetery
Category:Light-heavyweight boxers
Category:Middleweight boxers
Category:New Zealand professional boxing champions
Category:Sportspeople from Tuamasaga
Category:Samoan male boxers
Category:New Zealand male boxers
Category:Samoan emigrants to New Zealand
Category:Sportspeople from Apia
Category:20th-century New Zealand sportsmen

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