{"id":521441,"date":"2026-04-09T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521441\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:02:07","slug":"joseph-parker-speaks-out-5-months-on-from-failed-drugs-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521441\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Parker speaks out 5 months on from failed drugs test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Parker<\/a> has spoken about the latest developments with his failed drugs test.<\/p>\n

The former world heavyweight champion was last in action in October when he suffered a stoppage defeat to Fabio Wardley in their WBO interim title fight at The O2 Arena in London. Parker was ahead going into the closing stages of the bout, but Wardley turned things around to claim the 11th round win.<\/p>\n

It was then revealed shortly after that bout that Parker had failed a drugs test and tested positive for cocaine<\/a>, though the New Zealander has maintained his innocence throughout.<\/p>\n

Nearly six months on that from announcement, there is still no definitive outcome on the matter, and Parker has told TalkSport<\/a> that it is still a waiting game at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment we\u2019re going through a process. Once that\u2019s hopefully cleared soon I can come back, until then I have to wait and be patient. There\u2019s never a timeframe, I just have to be patient and see what the result shows and see what\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised, I think you guys were surprised, we\u2019re just waiting to see what\u2019s going to happen. You can\u2019t get a final result until they come to the conclusion, I have to be patient and wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whilst awaiting a decision, Parker has spent the last few weeks in Thailand training alongside his good friend Tyson Fury, as \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 prepares to return to action on Saturday against Arslanbek Makhmudov<\/a> at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joseph Parker has spoken about the latest developments with his failed drugs test. The former world heavyweight champion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}