Update: 5:22am – Joseph Parker has missed a drugs test this year, according to the World Boxing Council.
In the organisation’s “Midyear Clean Boxing Program Testing Report”, they listed Parker alongside four other boxers as having “missed tests”.
The Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (Vada) runs the WBC’s testing programme.
They have conducted tests on 72 fighters this year with 64 athletes returning clean results and four – Andrej Wawrzyk, Cletus Seldin, Dennys Ceylan and Suriyan Khaikanha – delivering what were described as “adverse findings”. Some boxers were tested multiple times.
A statement on the site said: “Each missed test and adverse finding has been or is in the process of results management protocol.”
Parker, the WBO heavyweight champion, is set to defend his belt against unbeaten Englishman Hughie Fury in Manchester on September 23.
He was ringside at Fury’s warm-up fight in London on July 8 with promoter David Higgins.
-NewstalkZB
