talkSPORT<\/a>, trainer Andy Lee said that Parker\u2019s failed test \u2018rocked him\u2019.<\/p>\n\u201cIt really rocked me. I think it\u2019s funny, as a coach it is probably your worse nightmare to find out that one of your fighters has failed a drug test but the situation is quite strange.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo test on the day of the fight, for a substance like cocaine, that is not performance enhancing, it\u2019s probably the worst thing that you could do, going into a fight, is take cocaine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee then went on to reveal the team\u2019s confidence of exoneration, stating that Parker\u2019s innocence will be supported by evidence found in an internal investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has been an internal investigation as a team, his manager, David Higgins and myself, and other people in the team, and this is not for me to say right now, but it will come out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working with lawyers in the UK and appealing the decision, there has been no [contact], he doesn\u2019t know how long he is banned for. He doesn\u2019t really know what the ruling is yet but there will be some appeal.<\/p>\n
\u201cJoe is quite confident that he will be exonerated with the evidence that I have seen and heard from Joe and David Higgins.\u201d<\/p>\n
The process, and lack of updates to dedicated fans of the sport from the relevant bodies, is as frustrating as it has been in the past in other cases.<\/p>\n
Whilst Parker, 34, awaits news, Wardley has booked his first world title defence against Daniel Dubois.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trainer Andy Lee has opened up on Joseph Parker\u2019s failed drugs test three months on from the news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-474689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}