Max Kellerman disgraces himself once again

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Max Kellerman lost my respect last year"when he said maybe Joe Calzaghe couldve beaten Roy in his best!! thats just a dumb and very unbelievable statement!!! sorry Kellermen theres many impossible things in this world that just cant be done!! and Joe Calzaghe beating Roy Jones Jr in his prime is one of them!!! ITS JUST NOT POSSIBLE!!

 

I too do not understand the overwhelming criticism of Max. It's his job to analyze and critique fights and the fighters he watches. As someone who follows boxing and as a fan with an opinion he has every right to critique a fighter and in the case of Victor Ortiz Max couldn't have summed it up any better than he did.

Ortiz not only quit but in the post fight interview indicated he wasn't interested in laying down for anyone and that he didn't want to take that kind of punishment. Ortiz is not just a quitter but he doubts himself as well and that's all that Max pointed out. I for one was overly disappointed with Ortiz because he's got talent and great potential but he has no heart or rather he's not sure he does.

Max is the man, and he's not afraid to call it like it is. I find that very refreshing.

 

Kellerman has been in the ring, but his mom was against it after Duk Koo Kim died. Kellerman had a public radio show at 16 years old, Max on Boxing, and probably forgot more about boxing at 16 then you will EVER know.

You don't like the way he broadcasts, fine. You don't have to be a total ****ing dumbass hater about it though. He more than earned his spot on ESPN.

"Kellerman began Max on Boxing at age 16 and in just two years was mentioned on MTV where Adam Curry prefaced his opinions on boxing by saying, "Now I'm no Max Kellerman...."

The call-in show has even featured celebrity phoners including Dustin Hoffman and others seeking Kellerman's perspective, predictions and insight. Mike Tyson was also a regular viewer of the show while one of David Letterman's producers caught the show and saw the novelty of it, a 16 year old talking knowledgeably about old-time fighters - won Kellerman an appearance on The Late Show.

When Max was approaching his 98' graduation from Colombia College, he put together a demo tape and press kit representing the best of Max on Boxing which he started in high school, and sent it off to various television networks. Evidently, the tape packed some punch, because ESPN come calling and Kellerman, then just 24, went from student to network studio analyst in one quick step- or giant leap."

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/boxing-news/mollett1803.php
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Don't sit on the fence, WT40, howdaya feel about Max?

 

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Oh please. You think that just happened by accident?? Name me ONE other boxing commentator that didn't pay their dues as a participant or journalist. if you think having some rinky-dink cable access show qualifies, sorry. Any other commentator you could name spent YEARS in the trenches. And that's why Kellerman is STILL so inadequate today. The sooner HBO gets rid of this clown the better.

 

Kellerman is growing into the role and shows improvement potential to one day take the torch from Larry Merchant. He can do it. Sometimes he's good sometimes he's not but he is improving.

about quitting, hey a lot of great fihgters have quit in fights. Liston quit. Frazier quit in Manila. Ali quit vs. Holmes. Tszyu and Vitali quit. Duran quit. Golota, Cotto quit. You gotta give them the benefit of the doubt. In just about all those fights they all took tremendous punishment and decided to tap out. I have no problem with quitting sometimes. Sometimes it's just not your night. Ortiz will learn from this, he is very young. He obviously has never been pushed to the limit like Maidana did to him. He will learn and improve himself from this.

 

More piling on about how the original post is an unwarranted attack. Kellerman gave one of his best performances last night combining a probing style with the care of a proper professional. Was he not supposed to bring up the elephant in the room? The replay made it obvious what had happened.

Furthermore, people really need to get away from this standard that in order for someone to speak knowledgeably about boxing they require in-ring experience. No one in sports journalism is held to that standard.

Finally, we ought to remember to differentiate criticism levied against a person in his capacity as a fighter from those directed against him tout court. When someone says that a fighter has no heart, it's evaluating an important, albeit intangible, element that is necessary for that fighter to be successful. Does that make him a bad person? No, but it certainly is relevant to the proceedings at hand.

 

Because Kellerman isn't a boxer, he knows this so he's never done it. Ortiz on the other hand is, and if you're going to do your sport; do it right.

 

Kellerman is awful. I mute the broadcast when he is on. Hopefully he gets fired but I won't hold my breath.

 

You guys are a bunch of hypocrites. If it had been Merchant, you know damn well he'd be twice as harsh about Ortiz, and you'd be singing the praises of that ****ing drunk like he was a prophet.

 

HBO pays him to provide the viewer with his opinion. He has every right to criticize a fighter if he deems it fit. It doesn't matter if he hasn't been in the ring. Neither has Jim Lampley and he gets all the respect in the world.

 

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, look at the lil baby

mad that your boy lost his hype train, and did so in a pretty shitty way? :hey

hurts when somone points that out without the sugarcoating dosent it? WELCOME TO BOXING :rofl:rofl:rofl

 

sometimes he does talk out the side of HIS NECK

 

It's not like max called him a coward or said anything negative. he acknowledged that he was dazed bleeding and beaten. He even said that our expectations of fighters are "unreasonable" he simply stated the obvious that quitting is somethign that sticks with a fighter