Sakio was born in the African nation of Cameroon one of 9 children. He was originally a keen and talented soccer player but started boxing at 13 years old after seeing a tournament advertising prizes of boxes of household items (toilet paper, utensils etc) and thought this would be a great way to help the family get by. A long and successful amateur boxing career followed. With a total of 140 amateur fights and only 8 losses he represented Cameroon in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and was also the all-African amateur champion in that year.
A strong, well built fighter with powerful frame, Bika has dominated opponents with a skilful, aggressive, boxer/puncher fighting style. This saw him quickly become a "Fox Sports Friday Night Fights" favourite, and gain a reputation as a hungry, willing boxer with a strong work ethic in the gym. That drive is what has taken him to the top.
Bika has logged many impressive wins, winning and defending the Australian Middleweight title five times, the OPBF Middleweight title in Japan, and fighting to a technical draw (accidental head-clash: round 4) against champion Markus Beyer for the WBC Middleweight title in Germany, May 2006.
Sakio fell in love with Australia and an Australian girl after his visit here representing Cameroon at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. The All-African Amateur Champion impressed many local boxing judges, officials and participants and decided to stay in Australia, joining Team Fenech. He married Belinda, an engineer with a prominent Australian multinational company and became a permanent resident in Kogarah, Sydney and has a 2 year old son Zidane.
Sakio received his Australian citizen ship in October 06 and has fought his entire professional career from Australia.
His ring name “The Scorpion” was adopted by Sakio after, as a young boy, he was bitten by a scorpion, common around his home in Cameroon. After several days of illness Sakio recovered and become known as “The Scorpion” to his friends and carried that name into the ring.
Sakio has continued to improve as a fighter, lives a healthy, respectable family based lifestyle, and now trains with respected veteran boxing trainer Mark Pitts, as part of his new training and management team. He is managed by Robert Burton of Tough Guy Promotions in conjunction with Angelo Hyder.
After two unsuccessful world title challenges against the world’s best Super Middleweight champions, Joe Calzaghe (IBF/WBO Champion) and Markus Beyer (WBC Champion) Sakio is now a part of the third series of the U.S reality TV boxing show “The Contender” on US sports channel ESPN.
Sakio is confident of a great result in the series. The contender format favoured Sakio’s fast and furious fighting style. This win has rocket Sakio to boxing stardom around the world and guarantee another world title shot.