Max Kellerman was born on the 6th of August, 1973 in Greenwich Village, New York, U.S.A. He was born into a middle class family, and has a younger brother named Sam Kellerman who was born in 1974. Growing up together, the brothers attended the local Hunter College High School, from where Max graduated in 1991. He was a good student, who took interest in sports; especially basketball. With a short playing career, he enjoyed every aspect of the game and would often impersonate as a commentator between his friends. Regarded as a naughty and active kid, he has got a mark around his mouth, which was the result of an electrical accident he had, as a child. After graduating high school, he got into Columbia College and graduated in 1998 with a degree in history, after which he worked for ESPN.

He began working as a sports broadcaster since he was a teenager, on a professional boxing TV show named "Max on Boxing". Then in the late 90s, he worked as an analyst in ESPN’s boxing show Friday Night Fights. After he was given the chance of hosting his own show, he came up with Around the Horn in 2002. But since the popularity and fame of the show wasn’t taken seriously by ESPN, they could no longer keep Max with them; and he quit in 2004 to host the I, Max show for FOX Sports Network.

Apart from his career as a broadcaster, max has also done some acting roles in his career. As he always had been working in front of a camera; he didn’t feel any big pressure to do the roles although he says he is a terrible actor. He appeared in the boxing film Rocky Balboai as a fight broadcaster and also appeared in the comedy drama The Wedding Bout, in a comparatively smaller role. In recent times, he has been in the reality TV show Real Husbands of Hollywood. Regarding his personal life, he doesn’t seem to be the type of guy who gets involved in lot many affairs, and there isn’t much to talk about his dating life. He is married to his longtime girlfriend and wife Erin manning, who works as a photographer and a writer. They had met when studying together at Columbia College, and got married in 1995 between friends and family. With more than 20 years of successful married life, they have had three children together; all daughters named Esther, Sam and Mira.