An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative centre turned five-eighth, Ikin played club football for the Gold Coast Seagulls, the North Sydney Bears and the Brisbane Broncos, with whom he won the 2000 premiership, before being forced into early retirement in 2004 by injury.
As a Gold Coast junior and promising centre and five-eighth, Ikin became the youngest player in State of Origin history when he was chosen as a replacement back for the Maroons during the troubled 1995 season at age 18.
[3] In the 1997 ARL season, Ikin made twenty-two appearances as Norths again reached another preliminary final but were defeated 17-12 at the Sydney Football Stadium by the Newcastle Knights.
At the end of 1998, Ikin was chosen as a reserve in the final two Tests against New Zealand in September, making him the last international to be selected from the North Sydney club.
[citation needed] Ikin made a successful comeback from his injury, even returning to State of Origin duty, but he had lost a lot of his speed and stood down from the Broncos' elite squad at the end of 2003.
On 3 June 2009, he resigned from the Nine Network, due to A Current Affair running a story about his father's ill-fated storage business on the Gold Coast.
[16] Ikin's youngest brother, Anthony, is a public speaker and life coach,[17] as well as a five-time Australian aerobics champion and a top-twenty contestant in So You Think You Can Dance Australia (season 1).