MAX KELLERMAN

'Max Kellerman' (born August 6, 1973) is an American sports talk radio host from New York City. He currently hosts his daily radio show ''The Max Kellerman Show'' on 1050 ESPN Radio (WEPN) in New York City.

Contents

Broadcasting history

Current broadcasting

Sports opinions

Personal life

Murder of brother

References

Broadcasting history

His first broadcasting experience was on a New York City public access television program on professional boxing. In the late 1990s Kellerman became an analyst on ESPN's boxing series ''Friday Night Fights'' and from November 2002 hosted ESPN's ''Around the Horn''. However, Kellerman and ESPN could not reach an agreement for him to remain with the network, and Kellerman was promptly hired by Fox Sports Net. He went on to host a new show with FSN called ''I, Max'' that first aired on May 10, 2004. He would discuss sports news with Michael Holley, former ''Around the Horn'' panelist and author of ''Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion,'' 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 cancelled due to conflicts with network executives. 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.

Current broadcasting

Starting in the week of August 21, 2006, Kellerman did at least two nights of audition shows 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 7pm (Kellerman's time slot), which temporarily left him without a day part on WEPN. On October 23, 2006, Max began hosting 10am to noon program on WEPN, replacing ESPN's nationally broadcast Colin Cowherd program.
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 represents the "devil's advocate" position on a series of issues selected by Carlson. Frequently, Carlson introduces Kellerman with a bio containing a humorously enthusiastic compliment.
Kellerman has also been hired by HBO Sports to serve as a boxing analyst on ''Boxing After Dark'', a post he formerly held at ESPN and Fox Sports.
Kellerman also appeared in the movie Rocky Balboa as a ringside commentator.
Kellerman will be taking over for Larry Merchant on HBO's A team that also includes Jim Lampley and Harold Lederman.

Sports opinions

Kellerman is a proponent of Sabermetrics and has hosted many practicing sabermetricians on his radio show. He also believes that Roger Maris should still be considered the single-season home run record holder at 61 because of steroid accusations towards players such as Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
Among his all-time favorite fighters are Pernell Whitaker, Willie Pep and Harry Greb. Max is also a strong proponent of only using the Ring Magazine championship rankings as opposed to those of the major boxing sanctioning organizations which he has often described as corrupt.

Personal life

Kellerman graduated from New York City's Hunter College High School and, later, Columbia College in 1998. He, along with J.A. Adande, attended P.S. 41[1] in Greenwich Village, although at different times. He is married to a woman he has referred to as "Trixie" on his ESPN radio show. Her real name is Erin, as he pointed out in episode 1 of his webcast Max Kellerman Soldiers., and, according to Max, she is a lawyer. He has pointed out on numerous occasions on ''Tucker'' that "Max" is not short for anything, and that he does not have a middle name. Also on that show, Kellerman described himself as atheist. Despite this, he is active in Jewish cultural activities and, according to ''The Forward'', is fluent in Yiddish, although, as he has stated during his one of his shows regarding the Michael Vick dogfighting case, he eats pork. Max is an avid hip-hop fan, evidenced by his intro music on his ESPN Radio show.

Murder of brother

On October 17 2004, the body of Max's brother Sam was found near a hammer in his Hollywood apartment. As a result of the ensuing investigation, former boxer James Butler was arrested and charged with Sam's murder. He later confessed to the murder and was given a 29 year sentence.^[1]
As an unfortunate stroke of bad luck, when Adam Carolla's manager was inviting Kellerman to the premiere of his new boxing film, ''The Hammer'', he did not know that Sam Kellerman's murder was committed by Butler, who was known as "The Harlem Hammer". Adam stated on his radio show, The Adam Carolla Show, that he felt bad about the incident and pointed out what a crazy coincidence it really was.

References

1. ''Adelman, Jacob. Associated Press. April 6 2006. Accessed via Lexis Nexis on December 24 2006.


★ ''Muhammad Ali'', Andrews McNeel Publishers, 1998.

★ 1050 ESPN Radio bio

★ HBO bio

★ Sugar Ray Robinson wins split decision from Ali (ESPN.com)