It scary how much power boxers have without gloves...
I remember when this first happened. What a joke thread title, "Max Kellerman has a dead brother?".
Anyways, rest in peace Sam, it's disturbing that Butler used a hammer considering his nickname. Props to Max for being strong throughout it, that would be horrible to lose a brother. If somebody ever hurt my brother they'd need more then luck on their side to even make trial.
The Kellerman brothers had known Butler for a number of years, having introduced by trainer Alexander Newbold, who worked with both Butler and the Kellermans at Gleason's Gym. A friednship developed and the fighter appeared with them in a rap video called ''Rumble Young Man Rumble''
Sam Kellerman stuck by Butler, even after he was jailed for assaulting Grant, visiting the boxer while he was in prision and writing a sympathetic column about him for foxsports.net. Therefore, it wasn't to surprising that when the down on his luck boxer needed a place to live, Sam, an aspiring actor and freelance sportswriter, allowed Butler to stay with him at his Hollywood apartment.
Butler had told Kellerman that he had a bout scheduled in Californa, but according to the Californa Athletic Commission, Butler did not have a boxing license in the state.
Los Angeles police beleive that Butler killed Kellerman on October 12 2004, by striking him at the back of the head with a hammer, and then set fire to Kellerman's apartment in a attempt to cover the crime. Friends of the Kellermans suspect that the killing was trigered by an argument over when Butler was going to move out of Kellermans apartment.
''Though it would seem that Sam's fate suggest that no good deed goes unpunished, Max Kellermen told the New York Post, ''Sam's life did not suggest that at all. It was full of good deeds. Sam believed that life came with the responsibility of empathy and kindness''
Several emebers of the boxing world, including Iran Barkley, Aaron Davis, promoter Lou Dibella and manager Frank Russo, attented Kelmerman's funeral.
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