Amin Asikainen vs Khoren Gevor

[Alec900]

the former european middleweight champion amin asikainen will be fightning for vacant EBU european middleweight title against khoren gevor this fall.

any thoughts?I personally think that Amin will knock khoren out

[Froch You]

I think Amin Asikainen will knock him out in the mid rounds.

[KingArthur]

dont underestimate Khoren, he hung in tought against Arthur. Even thought Arthur KO'ed Khoren, he gave AA a tougher fight then Miranda did this time around, LOL

[The Wire]

Never heard of 'em. Any good?

[Alec900]

This fight will take place in Helsinki Finland,November 28th

[-irishthunder-]

Never heard of 'em. Any good?

Amin Asikainen is rated number 4 by the RING magazine.
He knocked out Sebastian Sylvester two years ago to claim the European Championship. He defended his title twice against decent fighters Alexandr Sipos and Lorenzo di Giacomo, before getting knocked out by Sylvester in their rematch June 2007. Both of the Sylvester fight were great fights and the second one was somewhat controversial, as the referee failed to count two knockdowns(one for each), he neither gave Asikainen the 5 minute rest after Sylvester landed a crushing hook to his neck(accidentally???). After that Asikainen fough two journeymen and stopped Yori Boy Campas(who was robbed against Duddy earlier). He crushed his tune-up opponent in two rounds a month ago.
Asikainen's best weapon is his heavy right hand, but he isn't very fast and tends to end up brawling despite having pretty good boxing skills.

I've not seen much Gevor besides the Abraham fight, but he seems like a tough southpaw fighter who has nearly as much to offer as Asikainen.

[TheGreatA]

New EBU champ Khoren Gevor won by TKO in the 7th round, trainer Pekka Mäki threw in the towel after Asikainen was knocked down.

[BattlingNelson]

New EBU champ Khoren Gevor won by TKO in the 7th round, trainer Pekka Mäki threw in the towel after Asikainen was knocked down.

Really? I guess finnish boxing is about to hit an all-time low now or what?

[Googler]

New EBU champ Khoren Gevor won by TKO in the 7th round, trainer Pekka Mäki threw in the towel after Asikainen was knocked down.

Are you serious?

[The Hammer]

Are you serious?

This makes Arthur Abraham's KO win over Gevor more meaningful, since Khoren obviously must be a good fighter to go to Finland and impressively defeat Asikainen.