kellerman gets a lot of hate on the forums and some of it is deserved … personally he really doesnt bother me, but i would like to see him tone it down …

I have not seen the chris john fight, but I sure don’t like how Larry Merchant talked to Pacquiao after the dlh fight. Pacquiao can speak okay english, and his comprehension is pretty high considering he lives in the US and his trainer is American. Larry Merchant talked to Manny like a 3rd grader, and every time manny was on a roll, merchant would interrupt him , and at the end Manny was STILL talking, and Merchant interrupts the p4p greatest fighter in the world to end the broadcast. Lucky Manny is a much as a gentleman as he is a fighter. Otherwise merchant deserved a liver shot, but I like merchant most of the time otherwise.

Is the other guy Max’s deceased brother? The video’s bad, no doubt. The story about his brother getting killed by a boxer, don’t know his name, that was surreal.

Personally, I don’t like Max or Larry in the post-fights. I used to like Max, but now I feel like he’s trying to so hard to be some kind of media advocate for boxing that he comes off as insulting. ‘Did you not learn anything from the Nate Campbell fight?’ That was an insult to Juan Diaz, IMO.

I like Teddy Atlas. He’s not always right, he’s definitely got some grade A quirks, but he’s a true ‘boxing’ guy, IMO. I really like the weird ass breakdowns he does on FNF, on the beach or in a bowling alley. And, I think he accomplishes what Max sets out to do, but without being so tactless. For all his bluntness, Teddy can be pretty savvy. (Yes, I saw the dumb shit he said about MMA the other day).

I listen to his show for about an hour just to listen to other sports for a bit and other anouncer calling in to insult him a bit which is cool. But man, if some one calls with this song on the air… M – O – O – N that spells out classic.

I feel the guy knows a lot about boxing, and he does do well when he is second to Jim and Larry and Emmanuel, but i forgot which event, the recent cotto-jennings fight or the pavlik-rubio fight it was just him and this guy named Bob, and it was boring, uninteresting, and he tried to throw in some obscure fact every so often to make himself sound very knowledgeable. There as not much emotion in it (whch is what Jim Lampley brings) nor deep insight (what Larry Merchant brings) nor technical boxing knowledge (what Emmanuel Steward brings). I don’ t think Max can commentate a great fight on his own or as lead.

Kirkland sounded like an idiot in my opinion when he was talking about Julio.

But I still think he’s a step up from Merchant (who I think has been abysmal for the past 5 years or so), Lennox (who provides almost no useful commentary) or Manny (same). Stil, I think Kellerman’s forgetting a few people who are closer to Kirkland stylistically than Katsidis (Urango jumps out at me first and foremost). Also, Kirkland is forgetting that the two people who beat Julio were expert counterpunchers, I’m not sure if Kirkland has heard of a counterpunch.

I don’t think Max is the best but he loves the sport. Yeah… sometimes he asks stupid questions but I appreciate his passion for the sport. He sometimes has great takes like when he mentioned how Mayweather shouldn’t be in the sport if he wasn’t entirely committed to it.

Rafael’s notebook says Julio’s main sparring partner was Kassim Ouma. Sure, he’s lefty, but bad choice of sparring partner if you’re facing Kirkland.

He’s exactly the kind of voice we need covering the sport. Young, reverential of the fighters and the history.

The fact that he asks hard-hitting questions doesn’t make him disrespectful or an asshole: it makes him a journalist. In the ring, directly after a fight, whenever. A journalist’s job is to ask the “whys” and the “hows.” If a guy’s actions made no sense to him, it’s his obligation to ask what the heck the guy was thinking.

We need more Kellerman’s, not one fewer. And for him to come back to the sport after what happened to his brother shows a lot of heart, I don’t care what anybody says. If involvement with the sport took that kind of toll on me I’d have a tough time being around it afterwards.

A simple majority so far gives Max either an “a” or a “b”

i think the average looks to be more like a b to b- he aint no a i know that for sure and i actually like the guy … what he needs to do is tone it down and stop reaching with fighter comparisons.

Kellerman is a good sidekick—not such a good leading man.

Only because there are things I like about him and things I hate about him. It offsets right in the middle.

Actually taking into account his rhymes, maybe that is a C-minus. New York, New York so nice they named it twice??? Stealing from show tunes for a “hardcore” rap equals an automatic DQ in my book.

i voted c, but it would be a c+. also, i would normally give him a B, but goddamnit when you act like a dick (ex did you NOT learn a thing from the campbell fight?) you can’t be given a B. thats just me though

i put him on blast in an earlier post about his clear bias in calling the diaz/jmm fight, it doesn’t stop there. the guy also had clear bias and played favorites the whole time he was on fnf. clear bias towards guys like pernell whitaker and of all people.

yea, the guy knows his stuff and knows the fighters and has followed their careers (which is a breath of fresh air, especially on HBO where they dont know ish about the fighters unitl they actually appear on hbo) and hes probably forgot more than what a guy like jim lampley knows. not to mention he is much more tolerable than the god awful larry merchant, but still, he needs to cut his act down and just call what he sees and not skew everything towards his own bias’.

I gave Max a C. As much as it might seem like I DON’T like him, I really want to. Part of that might be that I know he’s going to be there for the next decade plus.