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Officially it's against the rules to wear contacts in competition, but I know many fighters who do and they hardly ever check.
If your vision's less than like a -3; you can probably get by without them.
My vision's a -5.75 (used to be a -6).
I've fought without contacts.
I don't recommend it, you're not going to see the shot that drops you.
I talked to my optometrist and he backed me up - if you can see punches then you stand to suffer a lot less damage to the eye than if you can't, also disposable contacts can not cause significant damage by being rubbed or significantly increase damage to the eye from being punched.
The worst that happens is a contact falls out, and you go back to where you would've been at the beginning - except probably better coz you should have at least one good eye.
Get used to not stopping sparring matches for dropped contacts; if you need to find those suckers do it during the rest break.
Learn how to take punches away from the eyebrows (tuck in the chin more to take it on the forehead or just don't get hit).
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