{"id":135042,"date":"2025-11-14T17:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135042\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:53:07","slug":"joseph-parker-failed-drugs-test-on-day-of-heavyweight-defeat-promoter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135042\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Parker failed drugs test on day of heavyweight defeat – promoter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Parker is punched by Fabio Wardley. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

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Kiwi heavyweight boxer Joseph Parker failed a drugs test on October 25, the day of his shock loss to Fabio Wardley in London, his promoter announced Friday.<\/p>\n

\n The 33-year-old former world champion suffered an 11th-round stoppage defeat by British boxer Wardley, in a fight concluding shortly before midnight local time,
\n and lost his status as WBO mandatory challenger for undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (Vada) last night informed all required parties that Joseph Parker returned an adverse finding following an anti-doping test conducted on October 25 in relation to his bout with Fabio Wardley,\u201d promoters Queensberry said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the matter is investigated further, no additional comment will be made at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

An initial report in UK tabloid the Sun said Parker had tested positive for cocaine, but this has not been confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joseph Parker is punched by Fabio Wardley. Photo \/ Photosport AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME. Kiwi heavyweight boxer Joseph Parker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[696,92456,5972,5506,1757,38536,12513,4999,50218,53733,194,1619,2225,111,139,69,1570,1118,90,17472,13621,13744,213,765,67137],"class_list":["post-135042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-announced","tag-boxer","tag-day","tag-defeat","tag-drugs","tag-fabio","tag-failed","tag-friday","tag-heavyweight","tag-joseph","tag-kiwi","tag-london","tag-loss","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-october","tag-of","tag-on","tag-parker","tag-promoter","tag-shock","tag-sports","tag-test","tag-wardley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}