Boxing Mysteries-Whatever became of Jeff Merritt?

[klompton]

Jeff 'Candy Slim' Merritt

June 1971 at the Fifth Street Gymnasium in Miami Beach.

Jeff sparred with former WBA Champion - Jimmy Ellis in helping him prepare for his July 26, 1971
bout with former Champion - Muhammad Ali to be held in Houston, Texas.

Jeff 'Candy Slim' Merritt was now Managed by Chris Dundee, and his height was listed at 6' 4".

Is that a 'vid-cap'?looks like it may be one to me.
if so,
would U care to share the video?

Yes, please share this video...

[Caractacus]

Hey Klompton,didnt you say you also had a video of Jeff Merritt sparring?
would U also care to share?

[klompton]

Hey Klompton,didnt you say you also had a video of Jeff Merritt sparring?
would U also care to share?

As if thats not where you took that screen cap, which I posted...

[Sheila]

March 1967

The Jefferson City Post reported that 20 year-old Jeff Merritt {Missouri State Penitentiary} had won the
Missouri Valley AAU Tournament.

None of Jeff's opponents could get out of the 1st Round.

Boxing Pundits in Missouri were writing that Jeff was the hottest prospect out of Missouri since
Charles 'Sonny' Liston.

[Caractacus]

I finally got ahold of some footage of Merritt fighting. I cant say Im too impressed. He fights like a lanky version of George Foreman, with a very heavy reliance on left hooks and left uppercuts. Keeps his hands low and has a very leaky defense.

As the late great defensive end of the Oakland Raiders John Matuzak once said

"Please Me,Dont Tease Me".

[Tuan_Jim]

I finally got ahold of some footage of Merritt fighting. I cant say Im too impressed. He fights like a lanky version of George Foreman, with a very heavy reliance on left hooks and left uppercuts. Keeps his hands low and has a very leaky defense.

Moving away from Duce/Sheila/Caracatus' deranged ramblings, Klompton, are you able to show us any footage of Merritt?

I've been fascinated by Merritt since I was a teenager, would be wonderful to glimpse this mysterious figure in action.

[Caractacus]

I finally got ahold of some footage of Merritt fighting. I cant say Im too impressed. He fights like a lanky version of George Foreman, with a very heavy reliance on left hooks and left uppercuts. Keeps his hands low and has a very leaky defense.

Moving away from Duce/Sheila/Caracatus' deranged ramblings, Klompton, are you able to show us any footage of Merritt?

I've been fascinated by Merritt since I was a teenager, would be wonderful to glimpse this mysterious figure in action.

That's not fair,I think it was Evereb that asked him to post it first over on another thread.
If anyone here should get first dibbs on it here to see it,it should be him.

[Tuan_Jim]

I don't care if I'm last to see it, I would like to at some point in my life see Jeff Merritt fight. I assume I won't.

[Caractacus]

Well whats stopping Klompton from downloading it over on youtube?
He's had the video for over two years now.
(although Im still confused as to how seemingly Sheila got a vid-cap of it).

[evrenb]

I never requested footage.

quote="Caractacus"]

I finally got ahold of some footage of Merritt fighting. I cant say Im too impressed. He fights like a lanky version of George Foreman, with a very heavy reliance on left hooks and left uppercuts. Keeps his hands low and has a very leaky defense.

Moving away from Duce/Sheila/Caracatus' deranged ramblings, Klompton, are you able to show us any footage of Merritt?

I've been fascinated by Merritt since I was a teenager, would be wonderful to glimpse this mysterious figure in action.

That's not fair,I think it was Evereb that asked him to post it first over on another thread.
If anyone here should get first dibbs on it here to see it,it should be him.[/quote]

[Sheila]

Jeff Merritt

[Sheila]

November 7, 1967

Fight For Freedom

Former Heavyweight Champion - Joe Louis met with the Missouri State Prison Parole Board to intercede
and offer his help in getting Jeff Merritt a conditional release from prison.

Jeff had served 22-Months of a 7-Year sentence for Armed Robbery.

Joe Louis was a representative for the National Maritime Union in New York. They were excited about
helping Jeff Merritt develop as a boxer, with a possibility of getting him entered in the 1968 Olympic
Trials for the United States Team.

It was reported that the Jeff {Age; 20 years, 10 months} stood around 6' 4" and weighed 211 lbs.

[Caractacus]

here is a web site with several transcriptions of newspaper articles of Kansas City from 1976 concerning Jeff Merritt.



http://ootpdevelopments.com/board/tbcb- ... -life.html

[Caractacus]

I am reposting this recent interview with Jeff Merritt here again for this thread for future referance.

http://doghouseboxing.com/Ken/Hissner-032614-New.htm

[Sheila]

November 9, 1967

Jeffrey Merritt gets conditional parole from Missouri State Prison.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... kU45GUHByA

[Tuan_Jim]

I am reposting this recent interview with Jeff Merritt here again for this thread for future referance.

http://doghouseboxing.com/Ken/Hissner-032614-New.htm

This interview sounds like a work of fiction worthy of Il Duce.

Given the appalling physical condition Merritt sounded like he was in towards the end of his life, I would be amazed if he were that eloquent and 'compos mentis' only months before being "clinically braindead" on life support.

Merritt sounded like a feral wild man as far back as 91, shoeless and up to the eyeballs in drugs on the streets of Vegas. The man Jack Newfield met face to face sounds nothing at all like the man this blogger claims, or believes, to have interviewed.

Doesn't add up at all.

[evrenb]

I am reposting this recent interview with Jeff Merritt here again for this thread for future referance.

http://doghouseboxing.com/Ken/Hissner-032614-New.htm

This interview sounds like a work of fiction worthy of Il Duce.

Given the appalling physical condition Merritt sounded like he was in towards the end of his life, I would be amazed if he were that eloquent and 'compos mentis' only months before being "clinically braindead" on life support.

Merritt sounded like a feral wild man as far back as 91, shoeless and up to the eyeballs in drugs on the streets of Vegas. The man Jack Newfield met face to face sounds nothing at all like the man this blogger claims, or believes, to have interviewed.

Doesn't add up at all.

Hey I thought this too...unless it was modified by the writer?? hmmm something smells fishy...

[Sheila]

Mid-1969

After Jeff Merritt upset Roy Williams at The Arena in Philadelphia {March 1969},

Harry Markson and Teddy Brenner of Madison Square Garden wanted to put Jeff Merritt in the Ring
with George Chuvalo.

They both said they wanted to see if Jeff had the willingness to take it to the body, and come back
harder.

[Tuan_Jim]

Hey I thought this too...unless it was modified by the writer?? hmmm something smells fishy...

Look at this way. Merritt dropped off the face of the earth after boxing retired him in the 1970s, sinking into deep, foul, subterranean levels of depravity, beyond the comprehension of the ordinary Boxrec poster.

The man was, or is, existing far outside of civilised society, and the only reliable witness we have of his antics post boxing is Jack Newfield, who stumbled into him accidentally and reluctantly in 1991.

No journalist was ever able to track Jeff Merritt down, let alone interview him, in nearly 40 years of life after boxing. The man was the fistic equivalent of a sasquatch. And that was despite the revived interest in Candy Slim stirred up by Larry Holmes and Earnie Shavers, in the terrifying anecdotes taken from their respective books that carried deep into the cyberspace era of a supposed smaller world.

Now we're expected to believe that this man spoke to Jeff Merritt? This blogger, a writer without even a schoolboy's basic command of grammar & elocution, this simpleton semi-literate, somehow was the man who found Jeff Merritt and spoke to him in depth about his career? This 'writer' who did not even bother to detail how exactly how he spoke to Merritt, where he found Merritt, whether he met Merritt in person, spoke to him on the phone or by email, how Merritt now lives, looks and sounds, this 'writer' who was unable to elucidate what exactly Merritt has been doing these past four decades - as if both the writer and the subject's only knowledge of Merritt is what's listed on his Boxrec fight record - this "prolific scribe" (as the man lists himself) who clearly has never read an essay in his life and does not know how to write, this is the man who outwitted all other trained journalists and found a Jeff Merritt who just so happens to speak, apparently near death, in a Ducean dialect?

The story stinks, the writer is worse than unreliable, and the man who just so happened to share the interview with us? It's the final nail in the credibility coffin. I'm dismissing this ridiculous interview as bullshit of the lowest order.

[Sheila]

I don't care if I'm last to see it, I would like to at some point in my life see Jeff Merritt fight. I assume I won't.

I'm watching one now........

You are correct, you won't ever see Jeff Merritt fight in your life.

Here's a taste.

[Tuan_Jim]

No you are not. That is someone else's still.

It's astonishing how you just can't stop yourself lying. An old man mentally still in the schoolyard, it's no wonder why you are so starved of human contact.

[Sheila]

No you are not. That is someone else's still.

It's astonishing how you just can't stop yourself lying. An old man mentally still in the schoolyard, it's no wonder why you are so starved of human contact.

Jeff Merritt laughs at you.

[orbtastic]

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[Sheila]

May 17, 1970 {Miami News}

'Jeff Merritt To Fight Eddie Vick'

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... 2sWKOd8Hlw
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Tuesday ~ May 19, 1970

Auditorium ~ Miami Beach, Florida

Jeff Merritt ~ 13-1-0 {9 KO's} ~ 212 lbs. ~ Age; 23 years, 4 months
vs.
Eddie Vick ~ 23-13-0 {3 KO's} ~ 201 lbs. ~ Age; 37 years, 8 months



Eddie Vick

[Tuan_Jim]

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So the still was from Klompton, and Sheila was lying (again).

How embarrassing for Sheila/Duce.