Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
movie
Released February 12, 1993
Genres:
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.
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)
- no image
Curtis Ratliff
as
Self - Friend
- no image
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)
