Atlas should replace Max Kellerman

While i agree max sucks teddy would be just as boring because how many times can you listen to him try to tell you about character and whatever else he says that Cus taught him........I have also met him several times and he is a bit of a tool

 

Roy really isn't in this conversation. He was in the trainer/fighter spot, while Max/Larry are in the journalist/big picture spot. Atlas is sort of a hybrid, mostly because he talks enough for two people.

I think Farhood would be very good in that position, because I think he knows how to fill gaps a little better than Bernstein, who is more verbose. But I also like the ShoBox crew the way it is, so ideally it would be someone from somewhere else.

But I'm OK with Max. He's not my favorite, but at least he genuinely likes and follows the sport. He's also a bit more respectful to the fighters than Larry, which in many ways I think is good. You can ask tough questions but still be respectful, which Merchant has not always done, and ****face Jim Gray never does.

 

It's one thing to be respectful, it's another thing to be obsequious. Max is the latter.

 

Anybody but Atlas. He's the worst.
He doesn't call a fight. He preaches his crap and forgets the fight. I wish I had a share of ESPN for every time he's driveling on and on about boxing 101 and completely ignoring the action going on in the ring.

At least Kellerman calls a fight. He's not great and prone to some of the same crap that Atlas gets into but he doesn't miss near as much of the action.

I miss guys like Dun Dunphy who CALLED THE ACTION GOING RIGHT ON IN FRONT OF THEM and spared us from trying to prove how much they know about boxing.

 

I agree 100% as Atlas is one of my personal favorites. In Max's defense, though, I felt he did a much better job on the last card where he was East Coast for Cintron and Gatti's fights. Maybe he has had a chance to read all the criticizm goin round and decided to only do one speedball before the telecast. (But IMO he did do a better job).

 

Kellerman is NOT, nor as he ever been a journalist. Before Bill Cayton plucked him from obscurity and put him on ESPN for no good reason the ONLY thing he'd ever done is "host" some rinky-dink cable access show in NY. And therein lies the problem. All the really good "journalistic" commentators - Bernstein, Farhood, and Merchant worked for YEARS as boxing journalists, and therefore have INSIGHT into the sport. Kellerman didn't, and doesn't.

 

Kellerman sucks. Bring back Merchant, or bring in Roy Jones.

 

HBO have just announced Kellerman's replacement:

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His *meep meep meep* would be more lenjoyable then Kellermans prattling.

 

They should just bring in Steve Holdsworth. The guy who does the fights on Eurosport.

 

**** that. If they are going to look overseas they should just snatch up John Smeaton.

 

I know all that, but that spot on the broadcast is reserved for that person with the journalistic backcourd, and like it or not, in today's age that's the category that fits Kellerman.

He brought TV experience to the team as a host of his own (totally shitty) national show, and he had served as studio analyst at ESPN, so his position is different from that of the more trained (and usually more raw) boxing analyst.

But I think I mostly agree with the opinions on Max, I just wish he'd be given a chance to improve.

 

Awesome username. XFL was sick.

 

That's been true at times, but lately he has started to disagree with Lennox on the telecast (a pet move for Larry over the years), and he at least challenged Hatton slightly on whether he was facing a truly viable Castillo.

But yes, I agree that he needs to get a little meaner -- just not as dismissive as Larry has been at times during post-fight interviews.

And obsequious is a tremendous word. Very much underused in today's environment of ESPN-ization.

 

I remember learning that word in class in 5th grade.

I asked all my uncles and aunts if they knew what it meant. They were like "huh???"