Amin Asikainen (born 21 January 1976) is a Finnish former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2011, and in 2016. He held the European and European Union middleweight titles between 2006 and 2007, and the Finnish middleweight title in 2003. His nickname of "Idi" refers to the similarity of his first name to that of Idi Amin.
Early life Amin was born in 1976 to a Moroccan father and a Finnish mother. At the age of six, he started playing football and training karate and taekwondo when he was around age of nine, but abandoned the sports in favor of boxing when he was twelve. A childhood friend of his, Joni Turunen, also became a successful amateur boxer.
Amateur boxing Asikainen has fought a total of 175 amateur matches, winning 135 of them. He was the Finnish champion in 1996, 1998 and 1999, and also won in Tammer-, GeeBee-, Copenhagen Box Open- and Karl Leman tournaments.
Professional career
Asikainen won his first professional title in 2003, beating Kai Kauramaki to win the Finnish middleweight title.
Asikainen later won the EBU-EU middleweight championship on 5 May 2006 after beating the Frenchman Christophe Tendil by a knockout in the fifth round. After beating Sebastian Sylvester, a German, on 3 June 2006, Asikainen became the EBU Middleweight Champion.
Asikainen defended the title twice, first against Alexander Sipos on 6 October 2006, and then against Lorenzo Di Giacomo on 30 January 2007.
Sylvester regained the European middleweight title with TKO-victory in June 2007 in Zwickau, Germany.
In March 2007, Asikainen had been contracted to fight a rematch against Germany's Sebastian Sylvester for the European title, however, Asikainen pulled out due to injury and Sylvester faced Italian Alessio Furlan instead. The rematch between Asikainen and Sylvester took place in June 2007. Sylvester knocked Asikainen down twice in the eleventh round before the fight was stopped by the referee.
In 2011 in Helsinki Amin Asikainen lost to Piotr Wilczewski by TKO in the eleventh round, retiring from the sport soon after.
On 22 April 2016, 40 years old Asikainen returned to the ring for a single match beating Ivan Jukic with points.
Professional boxing record
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes34Win –Timo LaineUD27 Sep 202533Win29–4Ivan JukicUD622 Apr 201632Loss28–4Piotr WilczewskiTKO11 (12), 3 Mar 201131Win28–3Jaudiel ZepedaTKO4 (8), 4 Sep 201030Win27–3Dario Armando MatorrasTKO4 (6), 11 May 201029Loss26–3Matthew MacklinTKO1 (12), 25 Sep 200928Win26–2Antonio Valentin OchoaUD818 Apr 200927Loss25–2Khoren GevorTKO7 (12)28 Nov 200826Win25–1Roberto Oliveira de JesusKO2 (8), 30 Aug 200825Win24–1Yori Boy CampasTKO7 (10), 1 Feb 200824Win23–1Christophe KaragozUD1022 Oct 200723Win22–1Sylvain TouzetUD428 Sep 200722Loss21–1Sebastian SylvesterTKO11 (12)23 Jun 200721Win21–0Martins KukulisTKO6 (8), 18 May 200720Win20–0Lorenzo Di GiacomoUD1230 Jan 200719Win19–0Alexander SiposUD126 Oct 200618Win18–0Sebastian SylvesterTKO8 (12), 3 Jun 200617Win17–0Christophe TendilKO5 (10), 5 May 200616Win16–0Walter Fabian SaporitiTKO6 (10), 16 Jan 200615Win15–0Tagir RzaevUD630 Sep 200514Win14–0Mugurel SebeUD618 Jun 200513Win13–0Viachaslau SyrovatkaKO2 (6), 4 Apr 200512Win12–0Szabolcs RimovszkyKO2 (8), 19 Mar 200511Win11–0Petko MarinovTKO4 (6)22 Nov 200410Win10–0Jurijs BoreikoTKO2 (6)4 Sep 20049Win9–0Tomas KuglerKO6 (8)16 Jul 20048Win8–0Dmitri ProtkunasKO2 (6)17 Apr 20047Win7–0Emil Rusev613 Mar 20046Win6–0Gyorgy BugyikTKO2 (6), 13 Dec 20035Win5–0Leonti VorontsukKO2 (6)17 May 20034Win4–0Kai Kauramäki1015 Feb 20033Win3–0Roman Divisek1 (4)13 Sep 20022Win2–0Aleksandr OlimpijevTKO2 (4)7 Feb 20021Win1–0Istvan Mohacsy1 (4)10 Dec 2001
Other Asikainen is featured in the 2009 sports game Fight Night Round 4.
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