Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson

Feb 12, 1993

1h 33m

★ 8.0

Overview

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson is a 1993 film made by acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Though Tyson was in jail serving a sentence for rape, Kopple used existing interviews with the boxer, as well as her own extensive interviews with those closest to Tyson, to explore the man's history. The film traces Tyson's story from his troubled and tumultuous upbringing, through his rapid ascendancy in the ranks of the boxing world and his subsequent struggle with the trappings of fame. Fallen Champ earned Barbara Kopple a Directors Guild of America award as Best Documentary Director of 1993.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

The Sokolow Company

TriStar Television

Cabin Creek Films

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson Trailers

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Cast

Self (archive footage)

Mike Tyson

Self (archive footage)

Cus D'Amato

Self (archive footage)

Don King

Self (archive footage)

Robin Givens

Self - Friend

Curtis Ratliff

Self - Friend

Tracy Trey Travis

Self (archive footage)

Louis Farrakhan

Self

Joyce Carol Oates

Self (archive footage)

Evander Holyfield

Self (archive footage)

Larry Holmes

Self (archive footage)

James Douglas

Self (archive footage)

Michael Spinks

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