Amin Asikainen

Name: Amin Asikainen
Alias: Idi
Hometown: Kirkkonummi, Finland
Birthplace: Kirkkonummi, Finland
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 180cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

• Trainer: Pekka Maeki

Early life

Amin was born in 1976 to a Moroccan father and a Finnish mother. At the age of six, he started playing football, but abandoned the sport in favor of boxing when he was twelve. A childhood friend of his, Joni Turunen, also became a succesful amateur boxer.

Amateur Accomplishments

• Record: 175 fights, 135 wins
• Finnish Champion: 1996, 1998, 1999.
• Tammer-tournament winner, GeeBee-tournament winner, Copenhagen Box Open-tournament winner, Karl Leman-tournament winner
• 1997 competed as a welterweight at the World Championships in Budapest. Results were:
  • Defeated Sergey Hakobjan (Armenia) points
  • Defeated Alexandr Bogdanec (Latvia) points
  • Lost to Marian Simion (Romania) points
• 1999 competed at the World Championships in Houston. Result was:
  • Lost to Guillermo Javier Saputo (Argentina) points
• 2001 competed as a light middleweight at the World Championships in Belfast. Results were:
  • Defeated Andranik Hakobjan (Armenia) points
  • Lost to Fabio Di Corcia (Italy) points