Tuna Scanlan
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Tuna Scanlan | |
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Born | Tuna Williard Scanlan 12 July 1934 Apia, Samoa |
Died | 21 October 2014 (aged 80) Mount Roskill, New Zealand |
Nationality | Samoan/New Zealander |
Other names | Tuna Frank |
Statistics | |
Weight(s) | middle/light heavyweight |
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
Reach | 70 in (178 cm) |
Stance | Southpaw |
Boxing record | |
Total fights | 64 |
Wins | 42 (KO 22) |
Losses | 20 (KO 8) |
Draws | 2 |
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.[1]
In 2014, Scanlan died in Ranfurly Hospital and Veterans Home, Mount Roskill, and was buried in Waikumete Cemetery.[2]
References
- ^ "Tuna Scanlan". Boxrec. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ "Tuna Scanlan passes". Fightnews.com. 28 October 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
External links
- Boxing record for Tuna Scanlan from BoxRec (registration required)
- Boxing: Former middleweight champ Scanlan dies
- Tuna Williard SCANLAN
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- Former middleweight champ Tuna Scanlan dies
- Former middleweight champ Tuna Scanlan dies
- Sad to report the death of the great Kiwi Tuna Scanlan - Cwealth middleweight champ 1964. Died in Auckland aged 80
Categories:
- 1934 births
- 2014 deaths
- Burials at Waikumete Cemetery
- Light-heavyweight boxers
- Middleweight boxers
- New Zealand professional boxing champions
- People from Tuamasaga
- Samoan male boxers
- New Zealand male boxers
- Samoan emigrants to New Zealand
- Sportspeople from Apia
- Oceanian boxing biography stubs
- Samoan sportspeople stubs
- New Zealand sportspeople stubs