Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson

Barbara Kopple's film, made for network television, covers the early (and most fascinating) portion of boxer Mike Tyson's career. Shot while Tyson was serving a prison sentence in the wake of his 1991 rape conviction, the film considers how a fighter with such ferocious skills could allow personal ...more

Shot at a crucial time in the life and career of heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson, Fallen Champ will likely stand as the definitive document of his early, mostly brilliant career. When the film was made, Tyson was in the midst of serving three years for raping a beauty queen in his hotel room, and what has followed his release from prison was a long slide into near oblivion: more confrontations with the law, uninspired fights with second-rate boxers, the infamous 1997 fight with Evander Holyfield ...more