The story
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.
Cast & crew
Mike TysonSelf (archive footage)
Cus D'AmatoSelf (archive footage)
Don KingSelf (archive footage)
Robin GivensSelf (archive footage)Curtis Ratliff
Curtis RatliffSelf - FriendTracy Trey Travis
Tracy Trey TravisSelf - Friend
Louis FarrakhanSelf (archive footage)
Joyce Carol Oates
Evander HolyfieldSelf (archive footage)
Larry HolmesSelf (archive footage)
James DouglasSelf (archive footage)
Michael SpinksSelf (archive footage)Explore the crew
- Director
- Barbara Kopple
- Editor
- Bill Davis
- Editor
- Leon Gast
- Original Music Composer
- Michael Bacon
- Original Music Composer
- Richard G. Mitchell
- Producer
- Barbara Kopple