Max Kellerman.

this:deal

 

I used to like him a lot but he is an hbo fan boy the agressive fighter always wins in hbos mind even if they come forward and swing at the air they win rounds.

willy pep won a round without throwing a punch.
hbo would have scored it 10-8 for the other guy for "effective aggression"

 

That was it? lol I was expecting a full on Ben Shapiro-like debate or something haha

 

he really lacks charisma as a commentator, he comes across as a bit of an HBO shill at times (tbf they all do, i'm sure it's an obligation) and he's a stiff, awkward interviewer, but i do enjoy him as an ****yst and a genuinely enthusiastic boxing nerd.

 

Good commentator with a passion for the game.

 

But he will call it as he sees it.

 

You don't have to play basketball to be able to know what a team's, player's strengths and weaknesses are. What a team needs/has.

If playing was vital in taking opinions seriously then majority of commentators and front offices of teams would be considered invalid.

Truth be known (and not for all cases, but from most I've seen) the best commentators didn't play sports. Reason? Because they went to college to be a sport commentator. They learned the proper etiquette in broadcast journalism through years of practice/study which makes them sound better and know the proper language when commentating versus someone who only played the sport professionally and is commentating after he retired.

You'll notice that in most cases the play-by-play is someone who went to college for journalism for years without pro sport experience and the color commentators are the ones who played the game. They're both still equally qualified to speak on the sport, reason why they're both used.

But that's just my opinion. :good

 

That is going back some years huh. I remember the Around the Horn days...

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/...-The-Horn-Host-Max-Kellerman-Out-At-ESPN.aspx

 

But Jim is a white man.

 

Kellerman loves Andre Ward and he isn't an aggressive monster.

 

In 35 years of following boxing, I've seen a lot of boxing commentators, and Kellerman is easily the worst. And it's no surprise, this clown was plucked from obscurity in the late 90s, never having worked as a boxing journalist or participant, as just about any other commentator you could name had. Why? Because of his wealthy family's connections to key players in the boxing industry.

Kellerman's lack of grounding in the sport - never having actually worked as a boxing writer, like great commentators such as Al Bernstein or Steve Farhood, or as a particpant, such as former trainers like Emmanuel Steward - is glaring and obvious in his frequently idiotic questions of fighters in post-fight interviews and in his rather limited insight into fights when they are going on. The sooner HBO kicks this clown to the curb, the better.