World Negro Middleweight Championship

The Negro Middleweight Championship of the World was a title in pretense claimed by Johnny Banks, an African-American boxer (born December 25, 1861, in Richmond, Virginia) who fought under the sobriquet "The Darkey Wizard" during the mid-1880s. He claimed the Negro Middleweight Championship but lost it in a title fight on January 26, 1887, in New York City to James Desverney when he was disqualified in the ninth round on a foul.

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World Negro Middleweight Championship

The Negro Middleweight Championship of the World was a title in pretense claimed by Johnny Banks, an African-American boxer (born December 25, 1861, in Richmond, Virginia) who fought under the sobriquet "The Darkey Wizard" during the mid-1880s. He claimed the Negro Middleweight Championship but lost it in a title fight on January 26, 1887, in New York City to James Desverney when he was disqualified in the ninth round on a foul.

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