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Here is some links to some great footage of Merritt against ....Ron Stander and Henry Clark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CD4HKpZORA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaqiqGwMXg


Enjoy....

hey way cool man,
where and when did you dig those up?
You been holding back on us or somethin'?
BTW I just found out that Boxbuzz had locked the rather lengthy,informed
and well researched "Whatever became of Jeff Merritt" thread from a few years back
when some people had asked if their was film/video.
so I couldnt bump it up here.
So much for the "New World Order" of inter-net siliencers .

cool

Wow, those videos weren't titled for easy finding on YouTube. "Mohamed" Ali. Crazy. Nice find and thanks for sharing!

.....wow! my wife and i were sitting in the sixth row for the merritt/stander fight....and merritt really brutalized the tough stander. jeff looked like a real comer. ali was running all around the place...sticking his head into the faces of many of us saying, "i'm looking for joe frazier! he's hiding from me....any of you people know where he went?"

i think this was the card in which larry holmes was in a prelim. a guy named kevin isaacs knocked holmes down. holmes got up and boxed beautifully...and...i think it was the next round....knocked isaacs cold. i made a point of following his career from that night on, telling everyone who would listen that holmes was going to be heavyweight champion some day. skeptics scoffed. well, what the hell did they know.

jaclem3 wrote:.....wow! my wife and i were sitting in the sixth row for the merritt/stander fight....and merritt really brutalized the tough stander. jeff looked like a real comer. ali was running all around the place...sticking his head into the faces of many of us saying, "i'm looking for joe frazier! he's hiding from me....any of you people know where he went?"

i think this was the card in which larry holmes was in a prelim. a guy named kevin isaacs knocked holmes down. holmes got up and boxed beautifully...and...i think it was the next round....knocked isaacs cold. i made a point of following his career from that night on, telling everyone who would listen that holmes was going to be heavyweight champion some day. skeptics scoffed. well, what the hell did they know.

Wow indeed! What a great story...it seems as though Stander was brutalised - Could pick on Larry btw.

Evren - I've wanted to see Candy Slim in action since reading the anecdotes Larry Holmes related about him in his autobiography. I was honestly beginning to think I would never see him in motion. Thank you for sharing such an astonishing find.

I'm still reeling not only from watching the clips but from the fact Clark-Merritt exists at all. Who knew such a fight was filmed - and preserved in such crisp quality! More than one of our super smug tape trading experts has been on record over the years writing that no such footage exists. Makes you wonder what else is out there. A good day for we lovers of boxing oddities and curios.

What do you we make of Jeff? He must have really been able to thump to put Stander in that state. Also - how many times does the ref let Clark belt Jeff when he's crumpled on the deck? Very different days back then.

yeah I remember overhand right was looking for this footage like 15 years ago or more on cyberboxing zone site.
whatever became of overhandright anyway?

Tuan_Jim wrote:Evren - I've wanted to see Candy Slim in action since reading the anecdotes Larry Holmes related about him in his autobiography. I was honestly beginning to think I would never see him in motion. Thank you for sharing such an astonishing find.

I'm still reeling not only from watching the clips but from the fact Clark-Merritt exists at all. Who knew such a fight was filmed - and preserved in such crisp quality! More than one of our super smug tape trading experts has been on record over the years writing that no such footage exists. Makes you wonder what else is out there. A good day for we lovers of boxing oddities and curios.

What do you we make of Jeff? He must have really been able to thump to put Stander in that state. Also - how many times does the ref let Clark belt Jeff when he's crumpled on the deck? Very different days back then.

Glad you enjoyed it. I felt I had to redeem myself after that ridiculous thread previously with Energie/Donking/Lonis Tuna.

BTW How could you have "found" it if it was already up on youtube when you posted the links?

Caractacus wrote:BTW How could you have "found" it if it was already up on youtube when you posted the links?

I dont understand your question?

nice stuff / i didnt even know that henry clark kod merriit , i have a freind in the uk whos looking for jeff merritt are thier any complete fights of his out there ?
evrenb you know your stuff ?

evrenb wrote:

Tuan_Jim wrote:Evren - I've wanted to see Candy Slim in action since reading the anecdotes Larry Holmes related about him in his autobiography. I was honestly beginning to think I would never see him in motion. Thank you for sharing such an astonishing find.

I'm still reeling not only from watching the clips but from the fact Clark-Merritt exists at all. Who knew such a fight was filmed - and preserved in such crisp quality! More than one of our super smug tape trading experts has been on record over the years writing that no such footage exists. Makes you wonder what else is out there. A good day for we lovers of boxing oddities and curios.

What do you we make of Jeff? He must have really been able to thump to put Stander in that state. Also - how many times does the ref let Clark belt Jeff when he's crumpled on the deck? Very different days back then.

Glad you enjoyed it. I felt I had to redeem myself after that ridiculous thread previously with Energie/Donking/Lonis Tuna.

oh brother the man with the endless suitecase of issues is back using my name to redeem his endless of issues in his suitcase

evrenb wrote:

Tuan_Jim wrote:Evren - I've wanted to see Candy Slim in action since reading the anecdotes Larry Holmes related about him in his autobiography. I was honestly beginning to think I would never see him in motion. Thank you for sharing such an astonishing find.

I'm still reeling not only from watching the clips but from the fact Clark-Merritt exists at all. Who knew such a fight was filmed - and preserved in such crisp quality! More than one of our super smug tape trading experts has been on record over the years writing that no such footage exists. Makes you wonder what else is out there. A good day for we lovers of boxing oddities and curios.

What do you we make of Jeff? He must have really been able to thump to put Stander in that state. Also - how many times does the ref let Clark belt Jeff when he's crumpled on the deck? Very different days back then.

Glad you enjoyed it. I felt I had to redeem myself after that ridiculous thread previously with Energie/Donking/Lonis Tuna.

1.im not required to sacrifice my life to your weekness evren ...aka trolling/baiting /passive aggresion.....2..your weekness evren is a wrong choice which you can simply change whenever you would like ( like saying i harrrased tony fosco =lie)......3.i dont agree that your lack of self responcibility is my problem .....4 EVREN IM SORRY YOU SUFFER IN LIFE FROM A REFUSAL TO LEARN ...

evrenb wrote:Here is some links to some great footage of Merritt against ....Ron Stander and Henry Clark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CD4HKpZORA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaqiqGwMXg


Enjoy....

Thank you for the footage!

Stander looks like the Pillsbury doughboy in there.

That was a real tricky left hook Clark caught Merritt with.

Odd how he got up in a southpaw stance.

lorenzo1791 wrote:

jaclem3 wrote:.....wow! my wife and i were sitting in the sixth row for the merritt/stander fight....and merritt really brutalized the tough stander. jeff looked like a real comer. .

Stander clip:

Frazier and Norton were unable to knock Stander down (if I am not mistaken)

Merritt was all left hand,

Merritt had the Bob Foster puncher's build.

Henry Clark Clip:

Merritt apparently had a weak chin.

Clark was not a big puncher. Look at his record.

Clark hit Merritt THREE TIMES after he was down.

A competent referee would have had Clark lose on a foul at that point.

[ Clark was from California--where this fight took place. Merritt was from the East Coast, ]

It turns out Clark lost a decision to Merritt 5 years before this fight.

Yes, he is reminiscent of Bob foster...thought I recognised that build.

Fella could clearly hit but damn, he's clumsy. Hard to tell because in one fight he's falling over himself to finish it and in the other he's being clumped around the ring.

evrenb wrote:

Tuan_Jim wrote:Evren - I've wanted to see Candy Slim in action since reading the anecdotes Larry Holmes related about him in his autobiography. I was honestly beginning to think I would never see him in motion. Thank you for sharing such an astonishing find.

I'm still reeling not only from watching the clips but from the fact Clark-Merritt exists at all. Who knew such a fight was filmed - and preserved in such crisp quality! More than one of our super smug tape trading experts has been on record over the years writing that no such footage exists. Makes you wonder what else is out there. A good day for we lovers of boxing oddities and curios.

What do you we make of Jeff? He must have really been able to thump to put Stander in that state. Also - how many times does the ref let Clark belt Jeff when he's crumpled on the deck? Very different days back then.

Glad you enjoyed it. I felt I had to redeem myself after that ridiculous thread previously with Energie/Donking/Lonis Tuna.

evrenb = the only way you can make yourself famous is by using my name .... and linking it with yours ...if you wanna walk on the red carpet with me just ask .....

Wow, that was a crazy unorthodox hook Clark threw at Merritt; NEVER seen Henry so aggressive. It worked out for him.

Did Merritt switch-hit? In the Stander clip he seems to be throwing from the southpaw stance . . .

He's all left hand (particularly the hook), I wondered if he was a converted Southpaw. After he's knocked down in one of the clips, he gets up and seems to stand in the Southpaw stance.

Henry Clark threw that wild wide left hook that caught Merritt flush on the ramus of his lower right mandible.
Merrit was "jaw-jacked" as a result.
who wouldnt have succumbed to a punch like that I arsk you?

lorenzo1791 wrote:

orbtastic wrote: After he's knocked down in one of the clips, he gets up and seems to stand in the Southpaw stance.

He goes into the "I don't know where I am" stance.

Yeah that's what I meant. He seems to go Into instinct.

Yeah, I think we all watched the video.

So was he a converted Southpaw or not?

didnt the poster by the name of klompton also claim to have footage of "several other fights"of Merritt
and also training and sparring,weigh-ins and even press conferences?
Perhaps its all buried away from us too somewhere in those AP Archives.

orbtastic wrote:Yeah, I think we all watched the video.

So was he a converted Southpaw or not?

That makes sense