He didn't even have the balls to go against his orginial pick on who he thought won the Pac-Marquez fight after re-watching it. He preferred to push his assertion it was a draw to mask HBO's apparent bias, which to me was disgraceful for a guy who likes to think he exposes judges/poor officiating. Lost a lot of respect for a guy who I was not a fan of to begin with, but a guy I was begrudgingly starting to warm to
Of course he is. When it comes to your job, particularly in expressing your opinion in a way that you can influence masses, free speach is a very far away concept.
Yep. I'm a fan of Max and that was very dissapointing. He was conspicuously quiet in the booth, seemingly disgusted with what was going on, but not willing to speak on it.
You make it sound like its essential not to give your honest opinions when they dont cooperate with the whats happened, when actually, some people are not as calculating and will speak their opinion irrespective of whether they have something to gain from it, its called integrity. You wanna be known as a conformist puppet whilst you have a platform to get your opinions heard, or as a respected pundit? Of coarse your morals cant buy you anything, but who's says you have to earn something out of everything you do? Sometimes you can actually be true to yourself and have some self respect to say what you really feel. Infact believe it or not there is a niche for pundits who keep it real and dont BS, just like there is one for people like Kellerman, so there is no need to do what he does.
Point is.............if you wanna be a company man, dont try and put yourself across to be an exposer of group think or poor judging/officiating. Its hypocritical.
It was either in the very next telecast or after they replayed the fight. Infact it could of been the next telecast where they filled up the undercard with! the replay of the fight.
I'm only making a point, in context. I know and understand all about intergrity mate. HBO were protecting their investment, the higherups would of been leaning on the commentary team to do some form of damage control, commentary does influence the majority of people watching fights, so by them sitting there, they did alter public perception with their words. I don't condone it, but I see the point of it. Kellerman is in a very unique spot, he's very nearly ousted Larry Merchant, a mainstay of HBO in the last 25 years, I'd imagine he's keeping his head down, saying his pleases and thankyous as he climbs to the top of the ladder.
Bud, all I'm saying is if you dont subscribe to exposing poor officiating when your back is against the wall, dont do it at other times act like your on a crusade to eradicate it.
Is there something I'm missing? Kellerman says he called the fight a draw originally, re-watched the fight, scored some rounds differently, and still called it a draw. It was a close fight , and it is possible to see something different each time you watch. No fan of Kellerman, but he is being consistant.
Yeah. So people give Max props when they think he has shown a record of being impartial over many fights. And yet the next day he is supposedly biased and a company man because he didn't agree with their own assessment of one fight. Never mind that most rational people saw a close fight and many credible boxing journalists totally unaffiliated with HBO had the same score as Max. It was a close fight. If you disagree, whatever. It doesn't mean you are right. And it certainly doesn't mean Max lied about his opinion.