Ioka apparently tested positive for weed around the time of the Tanaka fight https://www.asianboxing.info/asian-news/kazuto-ioka-suspected-of-doping-violations I think he's rebelling against the JBC now he's friends with Taka and the guys at One OK Rock... He's become a teenager at last
It is still treat like a very serious crime in Japan (as seen by Narumi Yukawa being given a 3 year suspended sentence for possession and not being able to turn pro until it was over).
If anyone looked like he smoked weed was Tanaka anyway this is harmless hope they give him a fine and dont suspend him.
Weed can enhance performance. I took 2 hits of some really powerful medical marijuana last week an hour before my 90 minute presentation with a large and important client who had 12 members across the globe joining. Took away all of the stress, anxiety, and nerves and I killed it.
What ever became of this? Bad bit of business, if it cuts his nuts off right before one last legacy securing run (flirting with a top 10 pound for pound ranking and perhaps even an Inoue payday).
Same thing they got Arreola for (his MD over Kauffman changed to a NC, just for weed) and I thought somebody else a few years earlier, like James Toney or something, but ... just looked it up and not him, can't place it.
That's gotta be a weird moment, smoking weed with your opponent in tomorrow's HW fight. "So, how was camp?" "Great camp, really focused this time around *cough cough*" "Fix your jab?" "Hm?" "Never mind."