Max Kellerman is a company man....

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  1. Gooners2

    Gooners2 Archie Solis Full Member

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    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
     
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  2. timmyjames

    timmyjames PTurd curb stomper Full Member

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    don;t think there will be hordes of kellermantards rushing in here to defend him, but it is ESB....
     
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  3. TheGreat

    TheGreat Boxing Junkie banned

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    No way near as bad as RJJ or Lampley but yeah he is a company man.
     
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  4. SJS19

    SJS19 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    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.
     
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  5. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    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.
     
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    Gooners2 Archie Solis Full Member

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    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.
     
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  7. Gooners2

    Gooners2 Archie Solis Full Member

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    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.
     
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  8. Chappy112

    Chappy112 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What was this on? Would like to see it, normally Kellerman is fair so this would be disappointing.
     
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    Gooners2 Archie Solis Full Member

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    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.
     
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  10. COLD-HARD-TRUTH

    COLD-HARD-TRUTH Well-Known Member Full Member

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    A lot of you guys hate on Larry Merchant but Larrys not afraid to call a spade a spade.
     
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  11. SJS19

    SJS19 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    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.
     
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  12. Gooners2

    Gooners2 Archie Solis Full Member

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    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.
     
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  13. FlatNose

    FlatNose Boxing Addict Full Member

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    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.
     
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  14. Villain

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    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.
     
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  15. Joe_MacKenzie

    Joe_MacKenzie Boxing Addict banned

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    Exactly - he comes across as very phony when he does that.
     
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