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Probably the most notable active right now is Bam Rodriguez. Dude is typically in glasses out of the ring.
That said, I'm not sure how you can fight without perfect vision. I tried back in the day before I got into contacts and it was a nightmare. I'm very close sighted, so until something is like 8 inches from my face, it's all mostly a blur. I did spar a bit like this and it just ******. No way to react in time or properly see where punches were coming from. At that time I basically knew I couldn't take boxing as serious as I would have liked.
I'm hearing folks using contacts and that's interesting to me. I always thought about that since eventually moving on to contacts years after getting out of training in boxing. Obviously the contact can slip out if you get a grazing punch that reaches your eye. I imagine if that were to occur in a real fight, you're basically SOL and just have to try to survive or win with 1 good viewing eye. I didn't think it would be allowed though because of the fear that the contact somehow scratches your eye if it was punched in a way that makes it move in that manner.
Someone mentioned swelling. The contact will still perform though depending, it might get pushed out of alignment with the swelling. I dealt with this during a time I had an eye stye. It made my eye swell up that it looked like I got punched. It was honestly harder to put it in, in the morning than remove it. As long as have some kind of access to the eye, you can slip it out with your fingers easy enough.
Though if you're that serious about boxing and got the $$$, just get laser surgery. I can't think of any better reason for it if you're in this kind of sport.
That said, I'm not sure how you can fight without perfect vision. I tried back in the day before I got into contacts and it was a nightmare. I'm very close sighted, so until something is like 8 inches from my face, it's all mostly a blur. I did spar a bit like this and it just ******. No way to react in time or properly see where punches were coming from. At that time I basically knew I couldn't take boxing as serious as I would have liked.
I'm hearing folks using contacts and that's interesting to me. I always thought about that since eventually moving on to contacts years after getting out of training in boxing. Obviously the contact can slip out if you get a grazing punch that reaches your eye. I imagine if that were to occur in a real fight, you're basically SOL and just have to try to survive or win with 1 good viewing eye. I didn't think it would be allowed though because of the fear that the contact somehow scratches your eye if it was punched in a way that makes it move in that manner.
Someone mentioned swelling. The contact will still perform though depending, it might get pushed out of alignment with the swelling. I dealt with this during a time I had an eye stye. It made my eye swell up that it looked like I got punched. It was honestly harder to put it in, in the morning than remove it. As long as have some kind of access to the eye, you can slip it out with your fingers easy enough.
Though if you're that serious about boxing and got the $$$, just get laser surgery. I can't think of any better reason for it if you're in this kind of sport.
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