Movie: Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson

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Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson

Self (archive footage)

Cus D'Amato
Cus D'Amato

Self (archive footage)

Don King
Don King

Self (archive footage)

Robin Givens
Robin Givens

Self (archive footage)

Curtis Ratliff
Curtis Ratliff

Self - Friend

Tracy Trey Travis
Tracy Trey Travis

Self - Friend

Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan

Self (archive footage)

Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates

Self

Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield

Self (archive footage)

Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes

Self (archive footage)

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    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.

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    1993-02-12

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