Amin Asikainen

Amin Asikainen
Data
Birth Name	Amin Asikainen
Fight name	Idi
Weight class	medium weight
nationality	Finnish
birthday	January 21, 1976
place of birth	Kirkkonummi , Finland
style	Left delivery
size	1.80 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	33
Victories	29
Knockout victories	19th
Defeats	4th

Amin Asikainen (born January 21, 1976 in Kirkkonummi , Finland ) is a Finnish professional boxer and former European middleweight champion of the EBU .

childhood

Amin Asikainen is the son of a Moroccan and a Finnish woman. He started out playing football at the age of six, but at the age of twelve he decided to go boxing .

amateur

Asikainen played 175 fights as an amateur, of which he won 135. He was Finnish welterweight champion in 1996, 1998 and 1999, and Finnish light middleweight champion in 2001. At the European Championships in Denmark in 1996, he lost in the preliminary round against Pasquale Buonnano. For this he reached the quarter-finals of the 1997 World Championships in Hungary with victories against Sergei Hakobjan and Alexander Bogdanets , where he was eliminated in the fight for a medal place against Marian Simion .

At the 1999 World Championships in the USA he lost in the preliminary round against Guillermo Saputo and at the 2001 World Championships in Northern Ireland in the round of 16 against Ciro Di Corcia after he had defeated Andranik Hakobjan in the preliminary round .

In addition, Asikainen is the winner of the Gee-Bee tournament in 1996 and 2000, the Tammer tournament in 1998 and the Copenhagen Cup in 2000, with victories against Oleg Maschkin and Andrei Balanow , among others .

Professional career

Amin Asikainen won his professional debut on December 10, 2001 in Helsinki by TKO in the first round against István Mohácsy. He was trained by Pekka Mäki. In February 2003, in his fourth fight, he won the Finnish middleweight championship unanimously on points against Kai Kauramäki, to whom he was still defeated as an amateur in 1995. He then won 15 more fights, 11 of them prematurely.

On May 5, 2006 he won the EU Middleweight Championship of the EBU by a knockout victory in the fifth round against the Frenchman Christophe Tendil. In his next fight on June 3, 2006 he boxed as an undefeated challenger for the EBU European Middleweight Championship and defeated the German Sebastian Sylvester in Hanover by TKO in the eighth round. In October 2006 he defended the title unanimously against the German Alexander Sipos and in January 2007 also unanimously against the Italian Lorenzo Di Giacomo.

Unbeaten in 21 fights, he played his third title defense on June 23, 2007 in Zwickau as part of a rematch against Sebastian Sylvester. Asikainen lost to TKO in the eleventh round, with both boxers on the ground during the course of the fight. Asikainen then won four more fights in a row, including in February 2008 by TKO against Luis Campas .

On November 28, 2008 he boxed in Helsinki again for the EBU European Middleweight Championship, but lost it by TKO in the seventh round against Khoren Gevor . He lost another EBU European Middleweight Championship fight on September 25, 2009 in Manchester by TKO in the first round against Matthew Macklin .

With two knockout victories, including against the undefeated Argentine Dario Matorras, he received an EBU title chance against Piotr Wilczewski in the super middleweight division . However, Asikainen was defeated on March 4, 2011 in Helsinki by TKO in the eleventh round.

After a five-year break in the ring, he played one last fight against Ivan Jukić on April 22, 2016 and won unanimously.

predecessor	Office	successor
Sebastian Sylvester	European Middleweight Boxing Champion ( EBU ) June 3, 2006 - June 23, 2007	Sebastian Sylvester

Web links

Commons : Amin Asikainen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Amin Asikainen in the BoxRec database