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Glen Sutherland
Image Descriptions: Glen Alexander Sutherland was born in Coonabarabran on 18 May 1969. He started his amateur boxing career at the age of 10 as a member of the Gilgandra Police Citizen Youth Club.
On moving to Orange at the age of 13 he joined the Orange Police Youth Citizens Club. This was to be the start of a long association with trainer John Robinson who guided him through his amateur days and to a professional Australian title. As an amatory Glen had 130 fights with a total of 85 wins. He won his first State title in 1984 as a flyweight and went on to win five State titles during his career.
Glen also fought for the Australian title on five occasions but was unable to capture the elusive National belt, being runner up for five successive years. To add to his State flyweight title, Glen also won the State Bantamweight title in 1986 and 1987, and the Featherweight in 1988.
In 1987 Glen was selected to represent Australia in the Kings Cup tournament in Thailand and he again represented his country in 1987 at the Oceania Games in the Cook Islands, where he took out the silver medal in Bantamweight division. To cap a big year in 1987 Glen was chosen in an Australian Aboriginal team that was trained in America as part of a development program.
1990 saw Glen again represented Australia at the Oceania Games in New Zealand and later in the year at the Canada Cup in Ottawa where he won the Bronze medal and took out the award as best win of the tournament. A further tournament in New Zealand later in the year gave Glen a Gold medal in the Featherweight division.
During his amateur career Glen recorded wins over Eddie Younan and Darrel Hiles, both Olympians and Australian Champions. Glen's brother John also had a distinguished amateur career as a State and Oceania Champion and both boys turned professional in 1991.
Glen made his debut as a professional at Lithgow where he defeated Gary Martin on a KO in round 5. As a professional he continued to be plagued with the same problems he encountered as an amateur in not being able to get regular bouts, but he persevered with his training routine and finally realised his dream when he won the Australian Super Lightweight title with a win over Ricky Rayner in December 1993.
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