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Deplorably but inevitably, the Great White Hope, sometimes pronounced Hype, has been made the theme of prizefights between blacks and whites as far back as barges. Cooney's handlers regularly bring up the issue to denounce it. Their slogan: "He's not the white man, he's the right man...
Ever resourceful, All, until 1964 Cassius Clay of Louisville, Ky., responded to the shortage of good white opponents by inventing black white hopes. (Before their fight in Zaïre in 1974, he even tried to pass off George Foreman as a Belgian.) Yet he never sounded as mean spirited, as...
With a melancholy sigh, Arcel insists: "Holmes doesn't really think that way. He's a very decent guy." Mike Trainer, Welterweight Champion Sugar Ray Leonard's attorney, considers the White Hope demagoguery "bad basically, but also bad business. If you are going to promote a race war, you're...
For being in such a harsh business and around such hard men, most boxers are incongruously gentle, including Larry Holmes. He is a child of both Cuthbert, Ga., and Easton, Pa. The seventh of Flossie Holmes' dozen children, he grew up lisping when he talked and lashing out when he...
Since the days when he was a sparring partner for Ali, Holmes has mimicked Muhammad, intentionally or not. "He even tries to talk like him," says Angelo Dundee, "but he can't." As Arcel puts it, "He has lived in the shadow of Muhammad Ali's mouth." When not trying...