Tuna Scanlan


Tuna Williard Scanlan 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, i.e. middleweight, to, i.e. light heavyweight.
In 2014, Scanlan died in Ranfurly Hospital and Veterans Home, Mount Roskill, and was buried in Waikumete Cemetery.