{"id":79916,"date":"2025-11-16T05:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/parker-denies-doping-after-failing-test-investigation-underway\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T05:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:53:02","slug":"parker-denies-doping-after-failing-test-investigation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/parker-denies-doping-after-failing-test-investigation-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker denies doping after failing test: Investigation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0215%2Fr1452444_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nBoxer Joseph Parker is at the center of controversy after an adverse result was confirmed in a doping test carried out on October 25, the day of his fight against Fabio Wardley in London.\n\nParker, who suffered a technical knockout defeat in the eleventh round against Wardley at the O2 Arena, has strongly denied having consumed any prohibited substance.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I was surprised by this result. I have not taken any prohibited substances, I do not use drugs to enhance performance and I do not support their use.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Joseph Parker<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThrough his Instagram account, Parker expressed his surprise and assured he is fully cooperating with the ongoing investigation. The boxer is confident that his innocence will be proven.\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joseph Parker&#8217;s Instagram message<\/a><\/p>\n\nParker&#8217;s promoter, Queensberry Promotions, also issued an official statement.\n\n&#8220;The Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) informed all relevant parties last night that Joseph Parker returned an adverse finding following a doping test conducted on October 25 in connection with his fight with Fabio Wardley,&#8221; Queensberry communicated.\n\nThe company added that they will not make any further comments while the investigation continues.\n\nParker, after a streak of six consecutive victories, including wins over Deontay Wilder, Zhilei Zhang, and Martin Bakole, had positioned himself for a possible fight against Usyk.\n\nParker&#8217;s future in boxing could be affected depending on the outcome of the investigation.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxer Joseph Parker is at the center of controversy after an adverse result was confirmed in a doping test carried out on October 25, the day of his fight against Fabio Wardley in London. Parker, who suffered a technical knockout defeat in the eleventh round against Wardley at the O2 Arena, has strongly denied having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,10180,3587,6011],"class_list":{"0":"post-79916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-drug-test","10":"tag-fabio-wardley","11":"tag-joseph-parker"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}