Praise The Lord! Max Kellerman Laid Off by ESPN!

[STREET CLEANER]

Oh he had talent. Bars son.

LOL, I had no idea.

[El_Maldito_Rey]

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

[TintaBoricua]

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.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

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.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Kellerman is not nearly as bad as joe tessitore, a guy that should be fired for his bias commentary and favouritism.

After Crawford/Brook stoppage (to Brook):

"TAKE YOUR 2 MILLION AND GO HOME!"

[shawnkemp804]

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

[PBR Streetgang]

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.

[bballchump11]

I'll miss Max on Boxing.

[champion4ever]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/media...ffs/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!

[champion4ever]

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.