Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson

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.

8

93 min

Cast

Mike Tyson

as Self (archive footage)

Cus D'Amato

as Self (archive footage)

Don King

as Self (archive footage)

Robin Givens

as Self (archive footage)

Curtis Ratliff

as Self - Friend

Tracy Trey Travis

as Self - Friend

Louis Farrakhan

as Self (archive footage)

Joyce Carol Oates

as Self

Evander Holyfield

as Self (archive footage)

Larry Holmes

as Self (archive footage)

James Douglas

as Self (archive footage)

Michael Spinks

as Self (archive footage)

Michael Marley

as Self

Ruth Givens

as Self

Tony Tubbs

as Self (archive footage)

Trevor Berbick

as Self (archive footage)

Jerry Izenberg

Director

Barbara Kopple