Sakio Bika

Sakio Bika
Data
Birth Name	Sakio Bika
Fight name	The Scorpion
Weight class	Super middleweight
nationality	Cameroonian
birthday	April 18, 1979
place of birth	Douala , Cameroon
style	Left delivery
size	1.85 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	44
Victories	34
Knockout victories	22nd
Defeats	7th
draw	3

Sakio Bika (born April 18, 1979 in Douala , Cameroon ) is a Cameroonian boxer and former world champion of the WBC in the super middleweight division. He has been an Australian citizen since 2006 and competes in battles for his adopted home.

Amateur career

Bika won the African Olympic qualification in Cairo in March 2000 and took part in the light middleweight division at the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney , where he was eliminated on points 5-8 in the first fight against Canadian Scott MacIntosh . It has been based in Sydney since the 2000 Olympic Games.

Professional career

The normal boom Sakio Bika started in 2000 his career as a professional boxer in the middleweight division . He played his first 15 professional fights in Australia . In his debut on December 15, 2000, he defeated Iwan Wakuljuk (3-0) after he was disqualified.

Bika then won nine more fights against relatively weak " build-up opponents ". The longest of these fights were scheduled for 6 rounds, which Bika only had to go through once.

On October 15, 2002 Sakio Bika boxed against the first better opponent, the Australian Sam Soliman . Soliman was still relatively unknown at the time and with 7 defeats from 23 fights he had no particularly exciting statistics. Nevertheless, Sam Soliman managed to defend his IBF Pan-Pacific title after a majority decision on points. In Bica's first fight over 12 rounds, he should have failed with Soliman against an opponent who then rose to the top middleweights worldwide.

After a technical draw and another ten victories, Sakio Bika rose to the super middleweight division to challenge the WBC world champion Markus Beyer on May 13, 2006 . The fight in Zwickau was to be Bica's first professional duel outside of Japan and Australia. He was considered an easy opponent for the world champion in a voluntary title defense by Beyer. At the end of the fourth round, the fight ended in a technical draw due to an unintentional clash of both heads in which Beyer sustained a laceration under his right eye. Until then, Bika could sell quite respectably. At the time of the abandonment, he was in front on a score sheet, while the other two judges saw the fight as a draw. The termination of the fight due to Beyer's injury was viewed extremely critically by experts. Markus Beyer had already been able to controversially defend his title in a similar incident in August 2003 when Danny Green, who was in the lead, was disqualified.

Plans for a rematch between Sakio Bika and Markus Beyer were discarded after Beyer sought a title union with the WBA world champion Mikkel Kessler and then lost this fight. On the same evening, October 14, 2006, Sakio Bika got a chance for the IBF and WBO titles from Joe Calzaghe . Calzaghe clearly outperformed Bika and won unanimously after 12 rounds.

After a TKO victory over the relatively unknown Dechapon Suwannalert , Bika was able to beat Andre Thysse , who had already fought against Markus Beyer for the World Cup, on February 4, 2007 , clearly on points. In the following fight on June 15, 2007 Sakio Bika had to bow to the previously undefeated Romanian Lucian Bute , who won unanimously on points. Six wins followed (2 wins on points, 2 KOs, 2 TKOs) before he was disqualified in the next fight on July 31, 2010 against Jean-Paul Mendy for looking up.

On November 27, 2010, he lost clearly on points in the World Championship title fight of the WBA against the " Super Six World Boxing Classic " participant Andre Ward . The fight took place during the duration of this tournament, but was not one of them.

After victories against Dyah Davis (21-2) and Nikola Sjekloća (25-0), he won the WBC World Cup on June 22, 2013 on points against Marco Antonio Peribán (20-0). After a draw with Anthony Dirrell (26-0) in December 2013, he finally lost the title to Dirrell in a rematch on August 16, 2014.

In April 2015 he lost the fight for the WBC light heavyweight championship on points against Adonis Stevenson (25-1).

After beating Luke Sharp in 2017, which brought Bika to the vacant WBC Asian Boxing Council Continental Super Middle title, Bika entered the ring for the last time in 2017. In the fight against the Serbian Geard Ajetovic, Bika won the also vacant WBC International Silver Super Middle title in Australia.

Web links

• Sakio Bika in the BoxRec database

predecessor	Office	successor
Andre Ward	Super Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) June 22, 2013 - September 16, 2014	Anthony Dirrell