\n Maison McKay was crowned the 2013 Eastern District Boxing Scotland 40kg champion at Grangemouth earlier this month.\n<\/p>\n
\n The youngster, who boxes out of Tranent\u2019s Bronx Boxing Club, is keen to keep progressing in the ring.\n<\/p>\n
\n His proud dad Gregg said: \u201cHe has been training for boxing since he was seven years old.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt is just kind of his passion since then.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe started to get actual bouts after being 10 but it is in the last year where he has been really, really successful.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe has been training five nights a week at the Bronx, Monday to Friday.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey have been getting him put into various competitions and he has done fantastic.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt is such a positive story for a young lad from the area.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think it is the training and the dedication he likes the most.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt gives him something to work on and challenge himself against constantly.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe has got that drive and need to get better and develop.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The 12-year-old has already fought across Scotland and previously claimed gold at the prestigious King of the Ring tournament in Sweden against top international talent.\n<\/p>\n
\n Maison, who travels from Midlothian, where he attends Lasswade High School, for his training sessions, will soon return to Sweden for the tournament.\n<\/p>\n
\n His dad will be cheering him on and added: \u201cIt is quite an emotional affair.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIn the run-up to the fights, I am a lot more nervous than him.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI am really confident in his ability but you know what it is like as a father.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cYou want to see him do well and I know he is so passionate about it.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cYou are nervous and anxious but obviously I am bursting with pride.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe has done absolutely fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maison McKay was crowned the 2013 Eastern District Boxing Scotland 40kg champion at Grangemouth earlier this month. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-221761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}