great white hope

great white hope
n (AmE)
any white boxer who was thought to have a chance of beating Jack Johnson, who was the first African-American heavyweight champion and not popular with many white Americans. The Great White Hope was a film (1970) based on Johnson’s life. The expression is still sometimes used in the sport of boxing today, but usually in a humorous way.

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