I hate Max Kellerman.

[The Scientist]

I have no problem with Max Kellerman. Larry Merchant is my favorite, he's a wise old man. Lennox Lewis just sucks, he spews out **** that's blatantly obvious to even the casual fan. His half Brit/whatever else accent is really weird as well. No offense to the Brits on the accent remark, it's just Lewis' accent is...yeah, not quite British...

[The Hammer]

Examples of Max Kellerman lying:

1. On Saturday, he said Berto defeated Urango by wider scorecards than Hatton. But the scorecards in the Hatton fight were all 119-109, for a 30 point difference, compared to the 21 point difference in the Berto fight.

2. During the Berto-Collazo fight he said "most observers scored the Hatton-Collazo fight for Collazo" - false, according to the old polls and reports, although a few people thought Collazo won, most people scored the fight for Hatton.

3. He said Eubank knocked Calzaghe down in the first round of their fight. Another lie, in fact Calzaghe knocked Eubank down in the first round of their fight..

4. He said during Klitschko-Rahman "Rahman came in on three weeks notice". False - Wlad and Hasim were in negotiations seven weeks earlier in late October, and the contract was signed exactly six weeks before the fight on Oct 30/08.

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He's better than Lewis at least....

[bklynboy]

I like Max. I may not always agree with him but he's not a robo commentator (although he is more stay-to-the-script now that he is on HBO than he was on ESPN). To me he comes across as a knowledgeable fan who is giving his opinion. Yes he has favorites, but I can deal with that.

As far as backing down sometimes I think it is a matter of respecting the other's opinion. If I thought a guy was great or **** and Roy Jones, Bernard Hopkins, Lennox Lewis or any other great boxer was next to me and disagreeing I would shut the f*** up and listen. Chances are they can read the skill level of another boxer better than I can, or Max Kellerman, or any other commentator.

Regarding his voice. I'm from NYC, he sounds like the guy next door to me.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Kellerman had a local TV show in high school about boxing. He was picked up as a researcher for HBO I believe, and then went to Brown University. Thats where his philosophical **** comes in. I guess he thinks if it works for Merchant than his IVY league educated behind can get away with it too. Truth is, I wish he was back on Around the Horn. I asked him about that at a fight once, and he said...paraphrasing here "WOuld you rather talk about all sports everyday on ESPN for less money, or work less, just follow boxing, and take home a bigger paycheck?" I understand, then I asked him if he ever wanted to stab Jay Marrioti or Woodie Page in the head, and he just laughed. I like the guy, he follows the linear titles and is willing to rightfully discredit the paper belts. He does go overboard with his analogies sometimes, but like Mike Tyson, he knows his boxing history.

I agree 100%, he's much better than Lampley or Merchant any day of the week.

[bklynboy]

Examples of Max Kellerman lying:

1. On Saturday, he said Berto defeated Urango by wider scorecards than Hatton. But the scorecards in the Hatton fight were all 119-109, for a 30 point difference, compared to the 21 point difference in the Berto fight.

2. During the Berto-Collazo fight he said "most observers scored the Hatton-Collazo fight for Collazo" - false, according to the old polls and reports, although a few people thought Collazo won, most people scored the fight for Hatton.

3. He said Eubank knocked Calzaghe down in the first round of their fight. Another lie, in fact Calzaghe knocked Eubank down in the first round of their fight..

4. He said during Klitschko-Rahman "Rahman came in on three weeks notice". False - Wlad and Hasim were in negotiations seven weeks earlier in late October, and the contract was signed exactly six weeks before the fight on Oct 30/08.

Not for nothing but a lie is when you knowingly say something wrong, it sounds as if he remembered things incorrectly. Unless you're saying that he had the information in front of him and DELIBERATELY lied.

Example a few weeks ago I told someone I was married in 1996. Oops, I was married in 1997. That wasn't a lie. I remember the anniversary day, just forget the year.

[The Hammer]

Not for nothing but a lie is when you knowingly say something wrong, it sounds as if he remembered things incorrectly. Unless you're saying that he had the information in front of him and DELIBERATELY lied.

Example a few weeks ago I told someone I was married in 1996. Oops, I was married in 1997. That wasn't a lie. I remember the anniversary day, just forget the year.

Hmmm...No, all his "mistakes" are similar in a way. There is a pattern to all those lies, and the many others told my Max. Can you find what all those "mistakes" have in common?

[BarrySlisk]

Kellerman is ok. I can understand why some could be bothered by him S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G T-O-O C-L-E-A-R-L-Y. About his eyes, I don't see anything wrong with them.

Lennox sounds like a ******. He is very annoying.

[The Hammer]

Kellerman is ok. I can understand why some could be bothered by him S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G T-O-O C-L-E-A-R-L-Y. About his eyes, I don't see anything wrong with them.

Lennox sounds like a ******. He is very annoying.

Lennox may be kind of dumb, but at least he's honest.

[Smokin'J]

Larry Merchant annoys the **** outta me.