Enja Prest is in a frustrating holding pattern: the estimated time of arrival uncertain.
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The former Dubbo boxer was due to make her professional debut in Sydney last weekend but it was forced to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 29-year-old Prest, now based in Gunnedah, has not fought since winning the national super welterweight amateur championship a year ago.
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She hopes to make her long-awaited pro debut in March, when her longtime partner Wade Ryan plans to defend his recently won Australian super welterweight title at Gunnedah.
"It's pretty hard at the moment to train and plan anything, from a promoter's side and from a fighter's side as well," she said.
"But we're holding on to the hope that I will be able to fight on March 27."
Prest has lived in Young and Dubbo previously and has a horse racing background, riding track work for the likes of the late Bart Cummings and for Gai Waterhouse.
Her father, Mick, is a former rugby league prop who played for South Sydney in 1980.
Prest relocated to Gunnedah to be with Ryan and train under his longterm mentor, David Syphers, and said her career in recent times has been a "roller-coaster".
