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.
[1][2] 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.
Banks's next fight was with future colored middleweight champ Ed Binney in Boston, in which they drew in the scheduled 13 rounds after going easy on each other, to the disgust of the crowd and the bout promoters.
The Black Pearl fought and was defeated by Charley Turner, "The Stockton Cyclone", in his next fight on February 29, 1892.
Turner claimed the colored middleweight title but The Black Pearl already had lost it to Binney.