Former boxing champion Joseph Parker says failed drug test a result of nutritionist's cocaine use

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Former heavyweight boxing champion Joseph Parker was banned for three months after a positive cocaine test, which he argued was due to his nutritionist's cocaine use. The UK anti-doping agency accepted his claim that ingestion was out-of-competition and unrelated to sport performance, allowing him to resume fighting.

Former world heavyweight champion Joseph Parker argued to British anti-doping authorities that his nutritionist's cocaine use caused a positive drug test after his bout with Fabio Wardley last October. UKAD said Thursday it imposed a three-month ban which was deemed served because the 34-year-old New Zealander had been suspended since late November. Parker is free to fight again after the anti-doping organization accepted that “any ingestion of cocaine by Mr. Parker occurred out-of-competition only and in a context unrelated to sport performance.”