Brawl sees American in American gorge retreating (6)
I believe the answer is:
fracas
'brawl' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'american in american gorge retreating' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'american gorge' becomes 'scarf' (US term meaning to gorge on food).
'retreating' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'a' going inside 'scarf' is 'sacarf'.
'sacarf' backwards is 'FRACAS'.
'sees' is the link.
(Other definitions for fracas that I've seen before include "Affray" , "Brawl, disturbance" , "Free-for-all" , "Noisy quarrel or disturbance" , "Skirmish" .)