Jackson Asiku Biography
Jackson "Action" Asiku (*21 October 1978) is a Ugandan-Australian amateur flyweight and professional feather/super featherweight boxer.
Career
As an amateur, Asiku represented Uganda at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and won a bronze medal, losing to eventual gold medal winner Richard Sunee of Mauritius. In 1999, he won a bronze medal at flyweight in Boxing at the All-Africa Games in Johannesburg, South Africa, losing to eventual silver medal winner Nacer Keddam of Algeria. In 2000, he took part, in the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, losing to Arlan Lerio of the Philippines. During his amateur time, Asiku boxed in flyweight.
As a professional, Asiku won the Australian featherweight *le, World Boxing Organization (WBO) Asia Pacific featherweight *le, African Boxing Union (ABU) featherweight *le, International Boxing Federation (IBF) Australasian featherweight *le, International Boxing Organization (IBO) featherweight *le, and Commonwealth featherweight *le, and was a challenger for the International Boxing Federation (IBF) Pan Pacific featherweight *le against Fahprakorb Rakkiatgym. His professional fighting weight varied from 123+1⁄2:lb (56.0:kg; 8:st 11.5:lb), i.e. featherweight to 129+3⁄4:lb (58.9:kg; 9:st 3.8:lb), i.e. super featherweight.
References
External links
- Boxing record for Jackson Asiku from BoxRec (registration required)
- Image - Jackson Asiku
- Image - Jackson Asiku
