The owner of Tranent's Bronx Boxing Gym hopes his club will be the launchpad for a world title challenge after announcing that it is set to be the base for top middleweight Craig McEwan from next month.

The highly touted pro is taking part in the Prizefighter tournament on November 3 - live on Sky Sports - and after that Bronx owner Alex Brown has agreed to become the 30-year-old's manager.

McEwan, from Edinburgh, will train at the Bronx as Brown looks to set him up with a British title fight, before setting his sights on even bigger glory in future.

The arrival of McEwan - formerly based at world-famous trainer Freddie Roach's Wild Card gym in Los Angeles - is a huge coup for a fast-rising gym, which despite only opening in 2010 has already been used as a base by former world champion Alex Arthur and has trained several promising young boxers who have already won Scottish and British titles.

Brown - who has been shortlisted for Young Person's Coach of the Year at the Edinburgh Sports Awards - now plans to apply for a managing licence so he can set up fights for McEwan.

And he hopes to put on a show in the county, with McEwan topping the bill.

He also hopes that if McEwan can beat his fellow middleweights in the Prizefighter show he could set up a fight for the British title with current holder and Commonwealth champion Martin Murray.

"I'm already advising Craig and will manage him after Prizefighter," Brown told Courier Sport.

"Craig is going to be sparring in my gym all next week and if I manage him he will train there on a very regular basis. The Bronx Boxing Gym will be Craig's base.

"I feel there is a lot to come from Craig in the very near future. If he wins the �50,000 Prizefighter prize it will settle him financially and then we can look to push for title fights.

"I would be looking to put on a show in East Lothian, with Craig topping the bill, perhaps in the Brunton Hall in Musselburgh." Brown also believes that a British title fight would be only the beginning.

"I am predicting that Craig will win Prizefighter, then go on to box Martin Murray for the British title and win a Lonsdale Belt [for a British champion]," said Brown.

"He will then move on to European glory and then world honours.

"Now that Craig is back in the UK he will be a regular at the Bronx, using the facilities as part of his training camps and for extensive sparring sessions with boxers from all over the UK." And he added: "Craig is an outstanding talent and with Wild Card recently seeing losses to their top three boxers - Manny Pacquiao, Amir Khan and [Julio Cesar] Chavez Junior - the gym will be wishing they still had Craig on their books.

"I feel he was overlooked for the other three boxers and when - with the assistance of myself and the use of the Bronx - he wins title after title they will regret his leaving." Brown has already helped McEwan step up his preparations for Prizefighter, setting him up with sparring sessions at the gym with Bronx trainer and retired boxer Tommy Quinn, while he hopes to bring other middleweights to the Bronx ahead of the show to help McEwan get ready.

McEwan has also been showing off his skills to youngsters during his sparring with Quinn.

The Bronx is also doing its bit to cheer McEwan on to glory, as a group of 20 boxers and parents from the gym are heading down to London to watch him in the show.

As for being shortlisted for an award, Brown said he believed he was unlikely to win but said it was a "huge honour and a humble feeling" to be chosen.