Jarrell Miller banned from boxing for TWO YEARS after a fourth failed drugs test in 12 months

Jarrell Miller has been handed a severe two-year boxing ban from the Nevada Commission after his fourth positive drugs test in the space of a year. 

The American heavyweight, who was set to fight Anthony Joshua last year before failing multiple drugs tests, can however reduce the suspension to 18 months if he completes a treatment course. 

Earlier in 2020, Miller returned his fourth positive test in 12 months after testing positive for a male sexual performance pill called GW501516 – often used illegally to aid endurance and boost aerobic power – and the 32-year-old has now been punished. 

Jarrell Miller has been banned from boxing for two years but can reduce it down to 18 months

The American was meant to fight Anthony Joshua last year before he failed drugs tests 

‘Jarrell Miller has today been banned from boxing for two years by the Nevada Commission following his latest positive drugs test,’ said talkSPORT’s Online Boxing Editor Michael Benson. 

‘Ban applies to all US states and can be reduced to 18 months if he completes a treatment course.’

It represents another huge setback in Miller’s career, after he was set to fight Jerry Forrest this year before news emerged of his latest positive test.

In September, Sportsmail saw documents sent to Miller and his team from the Korva Scientific lab in Los Angeles – which was signed off by one of the world’s leading anti-doping experts Paul Scott – and tests results have indicated the presence of GW501516 in the ‘widely available’ Black Ant male sexual stimulant he claims to have taken 30 or more days before that drug test.  

Miller has always maintained that he has never willingly taken any kind of performance-enhancing drugs.

He told Sportsmail that he has taken this Viagra-type pill on several occasions and had not made the connection the first time after testing positive for GW501516 in 2019. And after initially failing that first test, he claims to have asked for a second and third test which then subsequently found EPO (Erythropoietin) and HGH (Human Growth Hormone) in his system, which he says he was unaware at the time that it came from a stem cell shot he had taken for an elbow injury. 

‘Everybody wants to point the finger but not everybody has the right information,’ he told Sportsmail, just over two months ago. 

Miller has maintained he has never willingly taken any kind of performance-enhancing drugs

‘The levels I failed for in this case right now were so minute. And with the EPO, you need to use that for months at a time if you want to get any muscle benefits not just one shot. 

‘Anyone who knows me knows I’m not that person and we are going to prove everybody wrong. I have spent thousands of dollars of my own money trying to find out what’s happened.

‘But there’s ignorance on a lot of people’s part. Everybody listens to whoever has the loudest voice at the time and who has the microphone. 

The 32-year-old has not fought in the ring since the end of 2018 due to drug-related problems

‘When Eddie Hearn, or Andre Ward or Timothy Bradley are saying what they’re saying everybody listens. But when I get the microphone back in my hand and get two or three wins back under my belt, I’m going to shut them up.

‘The proof is in the pudding. It’s right there. I’ve been truthful from the beginning to the end. The truth will set you free and I believe in that. If you go by the book and by the law, this case is innocent.’

The unbeaten Miller, nicknamed ‘Big Baby’, has fought 24 times in his career, winning 23 of those fights and drawing one, but has not fought since November 2018 due to two years worth of drugs-related problems.