The Eighth RoundWilson, Zeke. (2005, 2009) The Eighth Round. Punch Out Publishing by Zeke Wilson (II) is a non-fiction book that documents a precedent-setting court battle about same-race discrimination, which had previously not been legally defined.
This was the first case in the United States to reach a Federal court jury to challenge the concept of same-race discrimination. The case was brought on September 11, 2000, by Zeke Wilson, a Black licensed boxing promoter, against a state sports commission headed by a Black chairman. Wilson sought damage reparations and punitive redress after alleging his right to conduct professional boxing events was violated.Wilson v. McClure et al, 135 F. Supp. 2d 66 (D. Mass. 2001) His book later got turned into a short film of the same name, which was released in 2023.
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