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Edinburgh Live
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Kris Gourlay

Young Edinburgh boxer robbed at gunpoint by street gang in New York

An Edinburgh boxer who gave up the fight game to become a hip hop star in America has returned home and is back in the ring.

Stevie McGhee – better known to thousands of music fans as rapper Stevie Creed – has been undergoing gruelling training sessions at the Leith Victoria Boxing Club gym in Edinburgh and has already fought an exhibition bout in the city.

The 31-year-old decided to come full circle and get back to boxing shortly after releasing his autobiography, The Brooklyn Scotsman, that tells how as a teenager he left home and survived living in some of the toughest neighbourhoods of Brooklyn, New York.

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