New Zealand heavyweight boxer and former world champion Joseph Parker has been cleared to fight again.<\/p>\n
Parker failed a voluntary fight-day anti-doping test following his 11th-round stoppage defeat to British heavyweight Fabio Wardley<\/a> last October after trace elements of cocaine were detected in his system.<\/p>\n At the time, he issued a statement expressing his surprise <\/a>at the test result and stating he did not take a prohibited or performance-enhancing substance.<\/p>\n Former world heavyweight boxing champion Joseph Parker denied taking performance enhancing drugs after the \u201cadverse result\u201d. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n In a statement today, Parker said: \u201cI\u2019m pleased to confirm my provisional suspension is lifted and I\u2019ll be back in the ring soon.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been advised to say no more for now while details are finalised. Thank you to all my supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n Parker also today expressed support for compatriot David Nyika, who has an IBF world cruiserweight title eliminator fight<\/a> against Kiwi-Aussie Floyd Masson in Auckland on Saturday night.<\/p>\n \u201cPlease join me in backing David Nyika for his world title eliminator this Saturday on TVNZ+. I believe Nyika will win this fight and secure a world title shot for New Zealand.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch the Nyika fight on TVNZ+ with a one-off Event Pass<\/a> for $44.95. The first fight of the night, featuring former All Black Liam Messam, will be available free-to-view on TVNZ 2 and TVNZ+<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand heavyweight boxer and former world champion Joseph Parker has been cleared to fight again. Parker failed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-845414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}