Tyson Bout Set

A confident and still cocky Mike Tyson enjoyed a coming-out party of sorts, touching on subjects from Socrates to Muhammad Ali in announcing his return to the ring Aug. 19 against little-known Peter McNeeley.

Tyson, showing signs that prison and his conversion to Islam didn’t temper the inner fire that made him one of the most feared heavyweights in history, dominated a news conference called to formally announce his first fight in more than four years.

He left little doubt that he was back, and even less about what kind of fighter he expected himself to be.

“I feel great,” Tyson said. “I feel I could fight the champ right now.”

The leaders of one of boxing’s major sanctioning organizations manipulated its rankings to comply with promoter Don King’s efforts to return Mike Tyson as undisputed champion.

That’s what former heavyweight champion Michael Moorer claims in a lawsuit in Newark, N.J.

“The fix was in and we intend to show it,” Moorer’s lawyer, Patrick C. English, said Wednesday.

Moorer, in a lawsuit filed this month in U.S. District Court, says the International Boxing Federation unfairly refused to name him its top-ranked contender, hurting his chances to regain the title.

Despite Moorer’s claims, King is not a defendant in the suit.

Former heavyweight boxer Tim “Doc” Anderson was indicted in Orlando, Fla., on a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of Orlando boxing promoter Rick Parker.