Craig McEwan stretched his perfect professional record to 17-0 and targeted a showcase date in Las Vegas early next year.

The Scottish middleweight scored a unanimous decision victory over American James Parrison in Quebec City, Canada, on Saturday night and the Los Angeles-based southpaw from Edinburgh has all the right connections to make a move up the 160-pound rankings in 2010.

Trained and co-managed by renowned cornerman Freddie Roach and promoted by Oscar de la Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions, McEwan, 27, is hoping to be given a slot on the undercard of the welterweight world title clash between Shane Mosley and Andre Berto at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in the new year.

"Nothing has been set yet but on January 30 I'm hoping to get on the Mosley-Berto card," McEwan said.

"It's a Golden Boy show so we're seeing if that comes off.

"We just have to sit down and plan but I'm staying in LA over Christmas and after taking the next couple of weeks off I'll go back training."

Beating a previously undefeated fighter in Parrison, now 12-1 (3 KOs), will improve McEwan's ranking and raise his profile in a middleweight division led by WBC/WBO champion Kelly Pavlik and crowded with British and Irish talent such as Matthew Macklin, Andy Lee and Darren Barker.

"I'm happy at 160 but it's a tough division. There are a lot of big names in there that make it interesting but I'm confident I can hang with anyone.

"So we'll see what happens in the future.

"Beating Parrison will give me a boost up the rankings but it's up to Golden Boy and Freddie to sit down and say who I fight next. But I'm open to fighting anybody in America."

Whomever he fights next, McEwan said he was enjoying life at Roach's Wild Card Gym in Hollywood.

"I'm training alongside Amir Khan and Manny Pacquiao which is a great experience and I'm just letting it rub off, learning from them and hopefully I'll reach my goal," he added.

"For now, though, I'm happy to take it fight by fight and to have been fighting on a big card in Canada and beating a good, decent opponent, an unbeaten guy."

De la Hoya has also outlined an exciting career path for the Scot, though McEwan is taking nothing for granted.

"I've been speaking to Oscar and he told me to just keep building and building, get to 20-0 and maybe start thinking about (Juan Manuel) Marquez (versus Ricky) Hatton, if that comes off, being on that card in Manchester in the summer.

"So that would be a perfect time to showcase myself in Britain.

"It's all talk at the moment but things are looking up and I just have to keep my feet on the ground, go with the flow and keep winning and keep learning."