Max Kellerman

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Max Kellerman (born August 6, 1973) is an American sports television personality and boxing commentator.

He is currently co-host of ESPN's First Take with Stephen A. Smith and Molly Qerim, as well as a co-host of ESPN's Sports Radio talk show Max & Marcellus, with Marcellus Wiley.

Kellerman hosted Around the Horn from 2002 to 2004, co-hosted the ESPN panel talk show SportsNation, alongside Wiley and Michelle Beadle from 2013 to 2016.

After dark, he was also a studio commentator with Brian Kenny on Friday Night Fights and a color commentator for HBO World Championship Boxing and Boxing After Dark.

Personal life

Kellerman was born in The Bronx and grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood. He graduated from PS 41 in Greenwich Village, Hunter College High School, 1991, and later, Columbia University in 1998. Esther, Sam (named after Max's late brother) and Mira are the Kellerman and his wife, Erin (Manning).

On Tucker, Kellerman said that "Max" isn't short for nothing and that he does not have a middle name. According to The Forward and the Yiddish Book Center, he is involved in Jewish cultural productions, and speaks Yiddish. Kellerman's favorite artists, as shown by his intro music on his ESPN Radio show, include Wu-Tang Clan, who has said on his radio show that Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... is one of his favorite albums. He and his brother Sam, who was under the name "Max and Sam," were a member of a hip-hop group. They were signed to Columbia Records in 1994 and made a music video titled "Young Man Rumble."

From a childhood burntout of an electrical outlet, a Kellerman has a small permanent scar on the left side of his mouth.

Kellerman is a fan of the New York Giants and New York Yankees.

Sam Kellerman, a student at Stuyvesant High School, grew up in Manhattan starting on November 24, 1974. He was 15 months younger than Max and the second of the four brothers in the Kellerman family. Kellerman, an aspiring young artist, penned The Man Who Hated Shakespeare and produced a free-to-video presentation.

Sam Kellerman's body was discovered inside his apartment on the 1400 block of Vista Street in Los Angeles on October 17, 2004. Ex boxer James Butler was arrested and charged with Sam's murder as a result of the ensuing probe. He pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to 29 years in prison.

Sam Kellerman was 29 years old. Max Kellerman recalls that "[Sam] was a genius," he says of his brother. He was the best writer for his age, according to my old blog. "I'll always be able to get someone to pay me for speaking, and you'll always be able to get someone to pay you for writing," I used to say.' I felt like Salieri to Sam's Mozart when it came to writing. Sam wanted to film, but I believe he was destined to write and be in front of the camera. He was just starting to work as an actor. He was employed in various national supermarkets. And acting wasn't even what he did best. Sam was a sure thing. It was just a matter of time before he made it big."

Kellerman is a fan of sabermetrics, and he has hosted many practicing sabermetricians on his radio show. Roger Maris may still be named the single-season home run record holder at 61 after being charged with steroids against players such as Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Sammy Sosa, according to him.

Pernell Whitaker, Jerry Quarry, Willie Pep, and Roy Jones Jr. are all-time champions, although he has often referred to them as unconstitutional. However, Kellerman did not mention the Ring Magazine championship by name when it was broadcasting on HBO, opting for euphemisms (e.g. Kellerman may refer to a fighter who holds the Ring Magazine championship as "the true world champion" of the sport.

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Career

Kellerman's first broadcasting experience was as a teenager on a New York City public-access television cable TV program on professional boxing called Max on Boxing. Given the medium, the show was quite simple but nevertheless caught the attention of the boxing community, including a young Mike Tyson.

In the late 1990s after graduating from Columbia University with a degree in history, Kellerman was hired as an analyst on ESPN's boxing series Friday Night Fights where he met future radio partner Brian Kenny. In November 2002 he was given his own show and, influenced by Pardon the Interruption, became the architect and original host of ESPN's Around the Horn. While the show was incredibly popular, Kellerman and ESPN could not reach an agreement for him to remain with the network, and Kellerman left the network in early 2004 to host a new show called I, Max on Fox Sports Net. He would discuss sports news with Michael Holley, former Around the Horn panelist, and Bill Wolff.

Max took time off from the show after his brother's death (see below). He later returned, but despite his show garnering the network's highest ratings for a period of time, it was canceled by Fox. The last I, Max show aired on February 18, 2005. Max also was the co-host of Spike TV's 2006 series, King of Vegas.

In 2005, Tucker Carlson announced that Kellerman would be a permanent contributor on his MSNBC show Tucker. On a segment of the show called "The Outsider", Kellerman generally took the position selected by Carlson. Frequently, Carlson introduced Kellerman with a bio containing a humorously enthusiastic compliment. The show was canceled in March 2008.

Starting in the week of August 21, 2006, Kellerman did at least two nights of audition shows at 7 PM for WEPN (1050) 1050 ESPN Radio in New York City, hosting one night with Sid Rosenberg. On August 28, 2006, it was announced that Brandon Tierney would be taking over at 7 PM, which temporarily left Kellerman without a timeslot. On October 23, 2006, Max began hosting the 10 AM to noon program on WEPN, replacing ESPN's nationally broadcast Colin Cowherd program.

In September 2007, Kellerman began hosting a third hour, extending the show to 1 pm. Two months later, ESPNEWS and SportsCenter host Brian Kenny joined the show as co-host. On February 4, 2008, the show was added to XM Radio on ESPN Xtra. In the fall of 2008, Kenny left the radio program to attend to his SportsCenter duties and the program was again named The Max Kellerman Show.

Kellerman and ESPN radio mutually ended their relationship on March 9, 2009. Evening host Brandon Tierney temporarily filled in Kellerman, and Colin Cowherd took his timeslot.

Kellerman continued his boxing broadcast work at HBO. He was originally hired for the network's Boxing After Dark telecasts, working alongside Fran Charles and Lennox Lewis. In 2007, Kellerman moved up to the HBO World Championship Boxing main team alongside Jim Lampley, Harold Lederman, and a rotating guest analyst, usually Roy Jones Jr. or the late Emanuel Steward.

On May 12, 2010, it was announced Kellerman had been hired by CNN: "Kellerman will weigh in on sports and pop culture issues on CNN American Morning and other programs. He has previously served as a contributor to MSNBC."

Kellerman was announced in December 2010 as the new midday host at ESPNLA 710 alongside former NFL player co-host Marcellus Wiley, replacing LA Sports Live with Andrew Siciliano and former NBA player Mychal Thompson. Program director Mike Thompson (no relation to Mychal Thompson), who hired Kellerman, had worked with Kellerman at WEPN.

In May 2015, Kellerman covered the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao boxing match for HBO. He received criticism online for his post-match interview with Manny Pacquiao.

The Guardian stated that his line of questioning was, "interpreted as patronizing" as his wording to Pacquiao was "You thought you won today, Why?" However, Kellerman retorted that he "had to ask him" about his disagreement with the judges' adjudication. Kellerman has replaced Skip Bayless on ESPN's First Take as co-analyst alongside Stephen A. Smith and host Molly Qerim, effective July 25, 2016.

With HBO leaving the boxing business at the end of 2018, Kellerman signed a multiyear contract with ESPN which greatly expanded his role in the network's boxing coverage. However, in contrast to his color-commentary role with HBO, for ESPN he is presiding over network coverage from the broadcast desk rather than at ringside.

Kellerman made a brief appearance in the 2006 film Rocky Balboa alongside Lampley and Merchant, who served as the broadcast team for the fight between Rocky and Mason "The Line" Dixon. He would also make an appearance in the 2015 film Creed, as the reporter interviewing Donnie Creed at the conclusion of his fight with "Pretty" Ricky Conlan. Kellerman played himself in the short film The Wedding Bout.

Kellerman played himself in Real Husbands of Hollywood.

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