Well, Cotto isn't Mexican, but I'm sure Lamps needed therapy after watching what a Mexican did to him. That was an on-air meltdown Bill O'Reilly would have been proud of.
I'm no fan of Merchant, but as one journalist said, replacing Merchant with Kellerman is like replacing Picasso with the guy who does Elvis paintings outside of Graceland!
I dont care for either of them. But atleast Kellerman doesnt start making dumbass quotes right when a fight starts heating up. Rewatch the Taylor V Pavlik fight. Hear Merchant spitting all over himself as Pavlik is knocking Taylor out.
Well, you're not gonna get me raving about Larry Merchant, but at least he knows something about the sport - something that comes from years of working as a boxing journalist. Kellerman, alone among boxing commentators, never worked as a boxing journalist or participant. He's some unqualified clown whose daddy was buddies with Bill Cayton. It's pathetic that this punk is on HBO, absolutely pathetic.
That "muscle memory" **** was WAY out there; like something from an alternate reality where vodka and kool-aid has replaced drinking water!
With all the better people out there for this highly competitive job, it's absolutely ****ing INCREDIBLE that this bug eyed ****** hasn't been fired. It just goes to show "It's who you know" and not how good you are in this ****ing world.
Kellerman was a boxing writer for ESPN while he was co-hosting FNF. And I don't know where you get the idea that his dad was buddies with Cayton. Kellerman's dad was a shrink.
lmao @ captain kirk-land that dude hasnt fought anyone and wants williams?? That wack ass cat need to worry about joel julio before he calls out another star...
Big over-exaggeration by Max but what else is new? The guy is known as someone who often over-exaggerates the truth.
His family's connections got him in with Cayton, who plucked him from obscurity - no boxing journalistic experience other than a rinky-dink cable access show - and put him on ESPN. Any other boxing commentator you could name spent years working in the sport as either a journalist or participant. Not Kellerman. That's what family connections will do for ya!:yep
Kellerman worked as a journalist for ESPN prior to getting a commentating job at HBO. And his family had no connection with Bill Cayton. Following college, Max simply decided to send a few of his tapes from his "Max on Boxing" show to ESPN and they liked the charisma of this brash young man from New York. Hence, the hiring and the start of a brilliant career in boxing commentating.