Originally posted by chrisJS
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Their commentary team started to get bad when they added Max Kellerman.
He started his tenure as the ultimate Floyd fanboy, I guess with how Merchant was to Mayweather, they wanted someone to keep Floyd on the network.
It got tiresome very fast, and he was clearly told to dial it back, but recently, he just dont care anymore. He probably gets paid by event and isn't salaried, and the shows are so few and far between now, he is just going full fangirl again.
If you have fast hands and head movement, there is zero chance Kellerman will ever think you are losing a fight. You get hit? You are probably just setting up a trap. You cover up while you are getting a beating? You are intelligently weathering the storm.
He just makes comments that makes everyone in the room look at each other like "what fight is he watching?"
Some times it feels like he wrote down all the notes for how he thought the fight was going to go, and just reads them on air, because his comments dont reflect whats going on very often anymore.
Then there is Lamply who was fine when he was just doing blow by blow, but with Max going so far one direction, he seems to be trying to offer contrasting opinions, either to spur conversation, or to keep things balanced.
It just makes it end up looking like neither of them are actually paying any attention to whats happening in the ring, as they both have to be told by Roy Jones.
What also really rubs me the wrong way about Max is that he tries to sound so passionate and like he really cares about the sport and whats going on, but he is fangirling so hard, he is just completely oblivious to how biased his commentary is.
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