It’s A Mad Mad Max World Beyond Blunderdome
Photo-Chop: Bret “The Threat” Newton
In my previous Blog I took a “little” dig at Max Kellerman for not having the cajones to answer Paulie Malignaggi’s seemingly simple question about how HBO scored the fight.“Slapsie” Maxie parried that shot as well as all the blows Paulie deflected on Saturday night from Juan Diaz and merely stated, “Harold had it 7-5.”Max would not confirm that score was in Paulie’s favor until he was pressed, and even then Max went Pontius Pilate and washed his hands of the score.That was minor compared to what Kellerman also said on HBO. Check this almost incomprehensible diatribe out:
“Everyone deserves a fair shake and there is no excuse for a fighter for not getting a fair shake under any circumstances. However; the marketplace spoke tonight, Paulie Malignaggi. It’s not as though he could have not cultivated an ethnic following in New York. He has to some degree — an Italian fighting out of New York city– but given his style and his lack of punching power he has not been able to cultivate the kind following that Juan Diaz has been able to here in Houston with a Mexican and Mexican American fight crowd that really appreciates — and just fight fans — generally that really appreciates his style of fighting; the fact that every Juan Diaz fight is always exciting and so for that reason Juan Diaz winds up with the powerful promoter and the hometown decision — possibly if you consider this a hometown decision — and so even though every fighter always deserves (always) a fair shake I think here the market place spoke and Juan Diaz gets the nod.”
Max, do you know anything about the sport you are working for?
Basically what you did was nothing short of dissing The Sweet Science, which historically has always appreciated pure boxers. (You bill yourself as a boxing historian, don’t you Max?)
What Max basically said was fans want more aggressive and even reckless fighters, and don’t want to see great boxing skills. Kellerman followed that up by trashing Paulie even more by saying that because of his style he didn’t build a fan base in New York worthy enough to put the fight in The Empire State.
This is total bull crap because GBP and HBO dictated the site and gave Paulie a take it or leave it deal.
Max if you don’t know this you need to hand in your resignation letter now, or look in the mirror and realize the pom poms you are are carrying for hometown fighters are inappropriate for network commentators who are supposed to be fair and unbiased…allegedly!
Ultimately Max is echoing hometown judges by saying that a fan friendly fighter deserves a victory. Saying that the “market place” spoke in the judge panel’s decision is totally and absolutely outside the realm of what fans want from judges.
This is not friggin’ Wall Street…Fans do not want a “bailout” of hometown boxers, this is boxing and they want the true winner’s hand raised and not the ones who squandered their capital with aggressive but ultimately reckless spending of their energy.
The market place does not dictate the decision. Supposedly impartial judges do.
This is one of the most reprehensible tirades I ever heard by an analyst and I am not the first to go on record and eviscerate Mad Max.
Given Mad Max’s track record, go ahead and assume I won’t be the last.
In tomorrow’s blog we will have a conversation with both Paulie Malignaggi and his promoter Lou DiBella.
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Nice broadside blow! And very well written. Love how you changed Thunderdome to Blunderdome. Can’t wait to hear what Paulie and Lou have to say.
I love this site, I really appreciate the no holding back attitude. Fightnews doesn’t give you this opportunity and TSS picks and chooses what gets on. But you guys not only speak the truth, you let us speak our minds, and now we know why the real fans go to Pound4Pound.com
Thank you!!!
Kellerman! What a douche bag! Great closing thoughts Max. From what slimey rock did you crawl from out under and more importantly, when will you be returning to your mossy home? For boxing fans in the U.S.A, the sooner the better.
Looking for something we can rely on
There’s got to be something better out there
And i wonder when we are ever gonna change it
All the children say
We don’t need another hero
We don’t need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond the Blunderdome
Good article Will (as always), keep up the good work. Love this site.
in regards to max kellerdude, throughout the fight he was kissing Paulie’s behind non-stop. and in the rounds where Paulie’s trunks were falling, I tought max was gonna jump up on the apron and literally do it !
What exactly are you suggesting? Surely you are not implying the Maxie is, how do you say, a tad swishy?