Max Kellerman slammed for Pacquiao interview

Max Kellerman

Kellerman responded with near disbelief when Pacman said he thought he beat Floyd Mayweather.

Later in the interview, Pacquiao said: "I got him many times with solid punches and I thought I won the fight."

To which Kellerman replied abruptly: "we didn't ringside, the judges didn't. Right from the outset, from the first round, he seemed to be able to get you to fight at his pace. You usually throw a lot of punches, but you didn't throw as many punches right from the beginning. Why?"

Pacquiao: "He was moving around, it's not easy to throw a lot of punches when your opponent is moving around. If he stays, I can throw a lot of punches."

Kellerman: "But you knew that coming in. So didn't you have to do something to get him to stay?"

Pacquiao: "Yeah, I was hunting him and the counter...That's the fight. That's fighting."

Kellerman: "He seemed to catch you with some good right hands early in the fight. Did you feel his power?"

Pacquiao: "I could handle his power. He's not strong like Margarito."

Kellerman: "So you're saying you were up in the fight and that's why you didn't attack him and step up the pace even more in the 11th and 12th round."

Pacquiao: "Yes...ummm..."

Kellerman: "Manny, I had him winning pretty wide. It seemed to me that his size gave you trouble. Was he able to use his size against you?"

Pacquiao (as the crowd boos): "NO! It's not about the size, size doesn't matter. I've been fighting bigger (guys) than him, so size doesn't matter."

Twitter was quick to pounce on Kellerman's treatment of the widely revered Pacquiao.

Kellerman responded with a tweet of his own a few hours after the fight.

It was bad enough, but at least it wasn't as cringeworthy as this Mayweather v Larry Merchant interview.

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