does anybody fight with contacts? i wear them all the time and my trainer makes me take them out to fight..... it doesnt affect my performance but i feel a lot more comfortable with them on

i've fought with them and without them. generally i prefer to keep them in and just accept that at least 1 is probably going to get knocked out. it really doesn't take much to knock those things out/off.

I'd check the rules. The British ABA prohibits wearing contacts, and I'd be surprised if the US was different.

does anybody fight with contacts? i wear them all the time and my trainer makes me take them out to fight..... it doesnt affect my performance but i feel a lot more comfortable with them on

I've fought with them and did fine for 3 rounds but they both came out with one hook at the end of the 4th :grumpy:

I'd check the rules. The British ABA prohibits wearing contacts, and I'd be surprised if the US was different.

you can wear soft contact lenses in USA boxing bouts. i'm 100% sure. i've done it a bunch of times, and i also checked the rule book.

It's potentially very dangerous to wear them, I wouldn't.

It's potentially very dangerous to wear them, I wouldn't.

yeah i have soft contact lenses too, Im going to wear them in my next fight.... my main concern is not losing them but being allowed to wear them during the fight

im from the Uk, you arnt allowed to wear them in the Uk, i havent had my first fight yet , the weight keeps getting messed up but it should be pretty soon,

i wear my contacts all the time in sparring , they ussaly are ok, but somtimes one gets knocked out and it conmpletelty messes up my vision, i was thinking of sneakly wwearing them on my first fight even thhough your not allowed,

question?.....for any body that has wore them in an atchual bout, Do they seem to come out more in a proper bout due to smaller gloves and more punches been thrown??? have any of you boxed and kept them in during a bout??

You're not gonna get injured or anything by wearing them..The only problem is they most likely will be knocked out and that could distract you from the fight when they're hanging out of your eye..Plus contacts are too expensive to be losing a bunch of them like that.

You're not gonna get injured or anything by wearing them..The only problem is they most likely will be knocked out and that could distract you from the fight when they're hanging out of your eye..Plus contacts are too expensive to be losing a bunch of them like that.

I fought once with contact lenses and one got knocked out of my eye.It was very distracting to continue the fight with one "good" and one "bad" eye.It was like being drunk.

I'm never gonna fight without them again, but then I'm basically blind without them.

My optometrist said the "idea that soft contacts would cause injury to the eye due to a punch is ignorant" (his exact words).

I've been sparring with contacts (and boxing gloves) for over 7 years.

Getting hit with bigger gloves is more of a problem for me than with smaller gloves because of the larger surface area (harder to take the shot at a good angle) and they tend to be in contact longer due to the extra padding, which causes a smearing-like feeling. The smearing tends to pop out my contacts much more than a stinging blow.

I'd MUCH rather fight with at least one good eye than no good eyes, but then again I'm probably much worse off vision-wise than some of you.
It may be illegal in the state of Texas, not 100% sure but it's one rule I have no problem breaking & I'll deal with any consequences.

I was wondering this the other day.

I'm near-legally blind and wear hard contacts (gas permeable) so fighting without my contacts isn't an option, nor is surgery (too bad to get it), so maybe get soft contacts to fight in?

But I can see if the boxer was wearing hard contacts there could be a danger of the contact cutting your cornea.

I was wondering this the other day.

I'm near-legally blind and wear hard contacts (gas permeable) so fighting without my contacts isn't an option, nor is surgery (too bad to get it), so maybe get soft contacts to fight in?

But I can see if the boxer was wearing hard contacts there could be a danger of the contact cutting your cornea.

so I guess they don't allow boxers to fight with hard contact lenses?