| Amin Asikainen | |
| Nickname: | Idi |
| Height: | 1.80 m |
| Nationality: | Finnish |
| Birth Date: | 21 January 1976 |
| Birth Place: | Kirkkonummi, Finland |
| Style: | Orthodox |
| Total: | 33 |
| Wins: | 29 |
| Ko: | 19 |
| Losses: | 4 |
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.
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.
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.
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.http://www.secondsout.com/World/news.cfm?ccs=225&cs=22234https://web.archive.org/web/20070717204006/http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=11424&more=1
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.[1]
| Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | Win | 29–4 | Ivan Jukic | UD | 6 | 22 Apr 2016 | |||
| 32 | Loss | 28–4 | Piotr Wilczewski | TKO | 11 (12), | 3 Mar 2011 | |||
| 31 | Win | 28–3 | Jaudiel Zepeda | TKO | 4 (8), | 4 Sep 2010 | |||
| 30 | Win | 27–3 | Dario Armando Matorras | TKO | 4 (6), | 11 May 2010 | |||
| 29 | Loss | 26–3 | Matthew Macklin | TKO | 1 (12), | 25 Sep 2009 | |||
| 28 | Win | 26–2 | Antonio Valentin Ochoa | UD | 8 | 18 Apr 2009 | |||
| 27 | Loss | 25–2 | Khoren Gevor | TKO | 7 (12) | 28 Nov 2008 | |||
| 26 | Win | 25–1 | Roberto Oliveira de Jesus | KO | 2 (8), | 30 Aug 2008 | |||
| 25 | Win | 24–1 | Yori Boy Campas | TKO | 7 (10), | 1 Feb 2008 | |||
| 24 | Win | 23–1 | Christophe Karagoz | UD | 10 | 22 Oct 2007 | |||
| 23 | Win | 22–1 | Sylvain Touzet | UD | 4 | 28 Sep 2007 | |||
| 22 | Loss | 21–1 | Sebastian Sylvester | TKO | 11 (12) | 23 Jun 2007 | |||
| 21 | Win | 21–0 | Martins Kukulis | TKO | 6 (8), | 18 May 2007 | |||
| 20 | Win | 20–0 | Lorenzo Di Giacomo | UD | 12 | 30 Jan 2007 | |||
| 19 | Win | 19–0 | Alexander Sipos | UD | 12 | 6 Oct 2006 | |||
| 18 | Win | 18–0 | Sebastian Sylvester | TKO | 8 (12), | 3 Jun 2006 | |||
| 17 | Win | 17–0 | Christophe Tendil | KO | 5 (10), | 5 May 2006 | |||
| 16 | Win | 16–0 | Walter Fabian Saporiti | TKO | 6 (10), | 16 Jan 2006 | |||
| 15 | Win | 15–0 | Tagir Rzaev | UD | 6 | 30 Sep 2005 | |||
| 14 | Win | 14–0 | Mugurel Sebe | UD | 6 | 18 Jun 2005 | |||
| 13 | Win | 13–0 | Viachaslau Syrovatka | KO | 2 (6), | 4 Apr 2005 | |||
| 12 | Win | 12–0 | Szabolcs Rimovszky | KO | 2 (8), | 19 Mar 2005 | |||
| 11 | Win | 11–0 | Petko Marinov | TKO | 4 (6) | 22 Nov 2004 | |||
| 10 | Win | 10–0 | Jurijs Boreiko | TKO | 2 (6) | 4 Sep 2004 | |||
| 9 | Win | 9–0 | Tomas Kugler | KO | 6 (8) | 16 Jul 2004 | |||
| 8 | Win | 8–0 | Dmitri Protkunas | KO | 2 (6) | 17 Apr 2004 | |||
| 7 | Win | 7–0 | Emil Rusev | 6 | 13 Mar 2004 | ||||
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | Gyorgy Bugyik | TKO | 2 (6), | 13 Dec 2003 | |||
| 5 | Win | 5–0 | Leonti Vorontsuk | KO | 2 (6) | 17 May 2003 | |||
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | Kai Kauramäki | 10 | 15 Feb 2003 | ||||
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Roman Divisek | 1 (4) | 13 Sep 2002 | ||||
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Aleksandr Olimpijev | TKO | 2 (4) | 7 Feb 2002 | |||
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Istvan Mohacsy | 1 (4) | 10 Dec 2001 |
Asikainen is featured in the 2009 sports game Fight Night Round 4.