Biography and Career
In his youth Suttie fought under the great NZ trainer Lollo Heimuli of Balmoral Lee Gar gym,training alongside Ray Sefo, Jayson Vemoa and Doug Viney. having some 25 fights before opening his own gym. Jason has been very successful both as an amateur and professional fighter. As an amateur he took a New Zealand title and the South Pacific super middleweight and light heavyweight titles.
Jason now owns and runs with his partner Roger Earp, the Elite Thai Kickboxing Gym in Auckland - a stable of proven and up-and-coming future fighters such as Prince Hamid, Sio Vitale, Jason Reti, Michelle Preston, Sefa Fue, Dimitri Simoukov, Jay Hepi, Steve Anderson, and his youngest(16 years) very promising student Nathaniel lees.
In 1996 Jason graduated from Auckland with a B.A. in education and in the same year was the first Kiwi to fight in the K-1, Ray Sefo was in the audience negotiating his K-1 contract.
In 1997 Jason won his first world title and by 2000 he had racked up six world titles in five different weight divisions from super middleweight (76 kg) through to super heavyweight (95 kg) with four different federations.
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