Background
Amin was born in 1976 to a Moroccan father and a Finnish mother.
Amin was born in 1976 to a Moroccan father and a Finnish mother.
His nickname "Idi" refers to the similarity of his first name to that of Idi Amin. 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. Asikainen has fought a total of 175 amateur matches, winning 135 of them.
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.
Asikainen was selected to be a featured boxer in the hit sports game Fight Night Round 4.
Asikainen defended the title twice, first against Alexander Sipos on 6 October 2006, and then against Lorenzo Di Giacomo on 30 January 2007.