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Tuna Scanlan

Tuna Scanlan

Samoan / New Zealand boxer

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.

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

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 70 kg (154 lb), i.e. middleweight, to 74 kg (164 lb), i.e. light heavyweight.[3]

In 2014, Scanlan died in Ranfurly Hospital and Veterans Home, Mount Roskill, and was buried in Waikumete Cemetery.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Tuna Williard SCANLAN". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Boxing: Former middleweight champ Scanlan dies". New Zealand Herald. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  3. [3]
    "Tuna Scanlan". Boxrec. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  4. [4]
    "Tuna Scanlan passes". Fightnews.com. 28 October 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2016.



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