Great White Hope Explained

Great White Hope may refer to:

People

• James J. Jeffries (1875–1953), American boxer
• Jess Willard (1881–1968), American boxer
• William Warren Barbour (1888–1943), American amateur boxer
• Luther McCarty (1892–1913), American boxer
• Jerry Quarry (1945–1999), American boxer
• Gerry Cooney (born 1956), American boxer
• Larry Bird (born 1956), American basketball player
• Willie de Wit (born 1961), Canadian boxer
• Tommy Morrison (1969–2013), American boxer
• Al Kaufman (1886 – 1957), American boxer and film actor
• Al Palzer (1890 – 1917) German-American boxer

Other

• The Great White Hope, a 1967 play by Howard Sackler
• The Great White Hope (film), a 1970 motion picture adapted from the play
• "Great White Hope", a song by Styx on the 1978 album Pieces of Eight

See also

• The Great White Hype, a 1996 U.S. boxing sports-comedy film
• World White Heavyweight Championship, a boxing title in pretense from 1911 to 1914
• The White Hope (disambiguation)
• Great White (disambiguation)