Praise The Lord! Max Kellerman Laid Off by ESPN!

ESPN boxing broadcasts won't be the same. He's an asset to the boxing community.

Is Christian Poncher also sacked? Crystina Poncher was commentating on ESPN last night. She has a passion for boxing. She's the best of the bunch. Tim Bradley and the rest of the broadcasting team are useless.

Andre Ward announced he was let go as well on Twitter.

Is Christian Poncher also sacked?

max not invited to espies, max is quitting broadcasting in protest

Part of woke Disney's $900 million loss. They keep losing left and right. Get woke get broke. as a wildly successful real estate developer and dealmaker, President Donald Trump’s businesses lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994. trump is woke!

Kellerman has spent the past 25 years with that company ESPN; Both on television and radio.

Max Kellerman was never a reporter. He was just a boxing fan who turned sports commentator. He has absolutely no background or education in broadcast journalism or boxing whatsoever.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/media/espn-layoffs/index.html Kellerman was part of a cost-reduction layoff at ESPN. Max is the worst on-air commentator in my lifetime IMO. Smug, condescending boxing hipster who fanboys his favorite fighters and likes to lecture fans about obscure fighters that no one knew even in their own era, just so everyone can hear how learned he is. When ESPN started putting him on some boxing cards I was disgusted. Good riddance, Max Kellerman. Currently unclear if anyone else from the ESPN commentary team was let go. Hallelujah Day! :lol1:

I'll miss Max on Boxing.

A lot of the people ESPN laid off were those that actually had talent or provide insightful analysis of the sports they cover. A lot of the people they kept were those that fire off "hot takes" and nothing else. It's a byproduct of how society prefers to consume their sports entertainment these days. People would prefer to debate a soundbyte coming from Skip or Stephen A. than listen to someone explain the nuance. Max is annoying but he knows his boxing (or at least he did at one point). I think a lot of his exuberance came from a passion for the sport but it evolved into a schtick. I enjoyed him when he called fights in his earlier days at ESPN.

Jim Lampley, Al Bernstein, Sean O'Grady, Teddy Atlas, Brian Kenny are all worse than Kellerman and Kellerman is bad.

This was probably most likely it. People get antsy when asked to take a cut when they've built their life around certain expenses. I think they DID give him a choice, but it wasn't much of one to make and he decided to walk. Yeah big multimedia companies re-structure like this a lot. I remember Sky over here did it in around 2011.

Same here man. I think it was a salary dump. Anybody over a certain threshold probably got asked to take a cut or got cut. This was probably most likely it. People get antsy when asked to take a cut when they've built their life around certain expenses. I think they DID give him a choice, but it wasn't much of one to make and he decided to walk.

Part of woke Disney's $900 million loss. They keep losing left and right. Get woke get broke.

Oh he had talent. Bars son. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW-mK5KQ4Pc LOL, I had no idea.

I remember when Max had a public access boxing show in NYC, back in the late 80s/early90s (don’t remember which). I was very impressed with his knowledge. I enjoyed Kellerman’s commentary over the years, but, frankly, he started to wear on me. Even so, Max is still one of the best boxing commentators in the business. The sport is generally woeful in that regard.

max knows his boxing, very smart, quite rare in boxing to be honest

So many pathetic haters here. Max was one of the very few guys with a platform who would keep boxing news circulating in the mainstream.

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