Mike Tyson sounds the alarm on US boxing, launching a Las Vegas amateur invitational

When Mike Tyson was developing as a young fighter in New York in 1980s, he had plenty of chances to test the skills that would one day make him the world's best and fiercest heavyweight. Now Tyson looks at the state of boxing in the United States and doesn't like what he sees. Tyson's team sought out the nation's top amateur boxers to give them this forum to go against each other with the long-range goal of elevating boxing to where it used to stand as a conversation-driving sport.

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