American professional boxer and former kickboxer, Jarrell King Miller, has said that he intends to appeal against the decision to revoke his licence following an adverse doping test.

The 30-year-old boxer, who was due to fight British heavyweight Anthony Joshua in his native New York on June 1, said he has “never knowingly taken any banned substance”.

Miller further said his team and I stand for integrity, decency and honesty and together we will stand to fight this with everything we have.

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In a lengthy statement on his Instagram page, Jarrell Miller said;

“I want to thank all of my supporters who have stood by me since day one and especially during this extremely difficult time.

“I have not been tuned in to social media and any other media outlets to focus and channel all of my energies into working hard with no distractions.

“I am absolutely devastated upon hearing the news my boxing license has been revoked in NY State and I will be vigorously appealing this decision.

“I have NEVER knowingly taken any banned substance and when I found out the news last night I was totally shocked.

“My team and I stand for integrity, decency and honesty and together we will stand to fight this with everything we have!

“This was a voluntarily test that I was very happy to do and these results came just one week after another voluntarily test that I had taken which was completely clean. I refuse to just lie down and let my dream be taken away from me when I know in my heart that I’ve done nothing wrong.

“15 years of hard work. I’m WARRIOR .. I don’t need a banned substance.

“Remember don’t believe everything you hear and see. The facts will prevail and I shall be vindicated. I don’t have anything to hide and the truth will make itself known.”