Tuna Scanlan

{{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/light heavyweight

|height={{height|ft=5|in=7}}

|reach={{convert|70|in|cm|0|abbr=on}}

|nationality=Samoan/New Zealander

|birth_date=12 July 1934

|birth_place=Apia, Samoa

|death_date=21 October 2014 (aged 80)

|death_place=Mount Roskill, New Zealand

|style=Southpaw

|total=64

|wins=42 (KO 22)

|losses=20 (KO 8)

|draws=2

|no contests=

|medaltemplates=

}}

Tuna Williard Scanlan (12 July 1934 – 21 October 2014){{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}} was a Samoan-born New Zealand professional middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1950s and 1960s.

Scanlan was born in Apia, Samoa.{{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}} 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 {{convert|154|lb|kg|0|abbr=on|order=flip}}, i.e. middleweight, to {{convert|164|lb|kg|0|abbr=on|order=flip}}, i.e. light heavyweight.{{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}}

In 2014, Scanlan died in Ranfurly Hospital and Veterans Home, Mount Roskill, and was buried in Waikumete Cemetery.{{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 }}