Boxing champ Jermell Charlo claims he and his crew were denied entry to a fancy NYC gym Thursday night because he's black ... and he captured the standoff with the front desk staffers on video.
Charlo (the light middleweight champion of the world) and 5 people hit up Lifetime Athletic gym in Manhattan to see his brother Jermall Charlo (who's fighting at Barclay's Center in Brooklyn this weekend).
Problem is ... Charlo claims he was stopped at the front desk because staffers claims he "smelled like weed."
Charlo insists neither he nor anyone in his crew had smoked and the allegation was just a bogus excuse to keep a group of black guys out of the gym.