My uk boxing medical ...

Is it not quite dangerous to box with contacts in?

 

Your allowed to wear contact lenses of a specific type.
You pro or am?
Whats the issues with ur sight?

 

Your allowed to wear soft sport contact lenses in am or pro bouts.
Its things like having odd shaped eyes where u can be denied ur medical.

 

Its a basic medical examination.
The doc might ask u to read a chart and shine a light in ur eye. The next doc might just ask u to read a chart.
Like i say..its a basic med examination.

 

It was hold your balls n cough in my day. It is best to be honest though and declare your eyesight and ask the doctor

 

It is always right to declare any medical issues you have, simply for your own health and wellbeing, it is always better to be safe then sorry, always let the medical professional decide what is important or not.

 

Very unlikely to pick it up especially if medacalling a few of you and your allowed to wear certain contacts in a bout anyway

 

This is the official doc from ABAE...

Boxing in contact lenses

The guidance in relation to soft contact lenses is as follows;-

• The level of visual acuity has been relaxed and boxers can now wear soft contact lenses
• When tested in contact lenses, a boxer must test almost normal. It follows then that the boxer must box in those contact lenses.
• Boxers who need contact lenses to achieve the acuity requirements cannot box without the lenses in place.
• During a bout, if a lens comes out, then the bout should be stopped, is deemed to be over and the boxer losing his lens loses the bout. The boxer cannot box on without the lens and cannot be allowed to replace the lens.

Where possible, we will do what we can to apply common sense to situations in order that we find more ways for boxers to box rather than look for ways to prevent boxers from boxing.

As a fellow bad eye-site companion, best additional advice I can give you is to tell the doctor you have contacts in and heed his advice.
From there see how you feel with them and if they cause you any bother etc, if you do well and want to progress have a look at laser surgery or an alternative.

 

Ive boxed with lenses in no one pulled me on it .

Once wasn't allowed to fight for having a small beard though

 

If you fail your boxing medical for being half blind, its not all bad news. At least you could start a new career as a ref