Why wasn't Pacquiao's double punch on Clottey allowed?

If you see the Sky Sports version, they say it is illegal and that's why the ref stopped it. Yeah thats the one I watched first and I remember them saying it was illegal. Possibly because it can be made into a 'grabbing' motion ?

If you see the Sky Sports version, they say it is illegal and that's why the ref stopped it.

he threw those punches so fast that seems he double punch Clottey...xD

it was for boxers safety...... Simultaneous Pacquiao punches from each side would have smashed Clottey's grape like head like a.... grape. Clottey is lucky the left landed 1/2 a nanosecond after the right or, he'd be dead. :nono:

i guess the ref is just securing the boxer's safety. if pac punches with his 2 hands altogether, he is opening himself totally defenseless. those two punches have no power at all to inflict pain against clottey. the ref is just reminding pac about this move, the way a boxer takes his back against his enemy. one important rule in boxing: PROTECT YOURSELF AT ALL TIMES. Kabayan, I don't think that's the reason why the refs gave Pac warning. I think it is more of the shock value + the novelty of it that the ref doesn't know what to do. Because we all know (as I might add to your posting) that it won't hurt Clottey but perhaps since it isn't also illegal but the brashness of it that it might be "insulting"??? I don't know.

Unsportsmanlike behaviour.

Exactly. Please explain to the world what Filipinos meant by POMPYANG punch. bwahahahhaha We know he was clowning. The question asks why the ref pulled him up on it. What's the reasoning behind the rule.

pac was just clowning...... Exactly. Please explain to the world what Filipinos meant by POMPYANG punch. bwahahahhaha

No spin moves No double punches boxing = no fun league

Pacquiao also did it to David Rodela in sparring.

pac was just clowning......

Didn't Samuel Peter double punch someone in a fight? might have been one of the Toney fights.

Dont get it either by that standard, Joe Calzaghe should have never been allowed to box

because Emanuel "never saw did before"