Funny you say that a guy like benny the blade and pj piscotti would probably had beat the fuck out of him right there and then

Paciello would break merlino in half.. Paciello beat the shit out of mma fighter phil baroni twice..

Paciello used steroids back in the day, and probably had roid rage when he got into scraps way back when. He did beat the shit out of a lot of people, but keep in mind, a lot of people knew better than to hit back because he was mobbed up / associated. Everyone knows you don't put your hands on a made guy, and most people would not put their hands on an associate either.

I read that after Paciello got locked up and was off the steroids, he shrank like a raisin. I have no idea if he is in shape now, but I would bet on the Binger to beat the shit out of Merlino if they were to square off.

were did you here this?When he beat up chrisd quin he sucker punched him and them 3 other guys pounced on him aswell.If this is true there is no way he beat baroni in a fair fight

Just cause he sucker punched someone doesn't mean he's not capable of fucking people up in a one on one fight.. Anyways he smashed a beer bottle on his face anyways, not sucker punched him.
Paciello also took an axe handle from a bouncer who's a latin king when the guy was trying to attack paciello with it, paciello took it from him and beat him bad with it.

He also one punched some ex arena football player and knocked him out cold.

Guys a total piece of shit but I've always heard he can fight.

What was the thing with the armored truck robbery Joey Merlino was involved in when he was reall young? I might be off a little, but if anyone knows the story.....

Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino and his pals were like golddiggers whose greed caused them to lose everything.

Only in this modern-day, South Philadelphia-style version of the old Humphrey Bogart movie, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," about half of the $352,150 stolen from an armored car in 1987 is still missing and alleged to have been buried by Merlino in a secret hiding place to await his release from jail.

And jail is where the 27-year-old mobster's son is supposed to report on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Norma Shapiro ordered yesterday after Merlino was convicted by a federal court jury of conspiracy and theft charges.

Shapiro said the conviction and Merlino's prior record showed he was a danger to the community who must be jailed pending sentencing on Feb. 28.

She said the fact he is the son of former Scarfo mob underboss Salvatore ''Chuckie" Merlino was not a factor in her decision to jail him.

Salvatore Merlino, like mob boss Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, is serving a life sentence for murder and other crimes.

Young Merlino, who faces up to 15 years in prison, agreed yesterday that he got a "fair" trial, but otherwise remained silent.

The key witnesses against him were his admitted co-conspirators, Stephen J. Rinaldi, 24, a guard on the armored car, and Richard Barone, 45, a card player and bookmaker who testified that he and Merlino planned the heist.

Barone testified that he was asked to help Merlino learn the gambling business by Merlino's father, but that he and the younger Merlino got sidetracked by the lure of some fast money when they saw Rinaldi, a neighborhood acquaintance, driving an armored car.

"I love Joey's father," Barone bawled when asked by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Goldman how it felt to have to testify against the younger Merlino.

"They're good people with me," sobbed Barone.

Barone said the theft from the Federal Armored Express car went off without a hitch on Sep. 23, 1987.

Rinaldi left a bag of money, wrapped in a plastic trash bag, with some other trash bags after a stop on Delaware Avenue for Barone to retrieve, and claimed the money had fallen out of the back of the truck on I-95.

Things began to fall apart after Merlino refused to give Rinaldi his share of the loot, Barone testified.

Efforts by Rinaldi to collect his share led to fistfights and gun battles, but no real casualties.

Eventually, FBI agent Donald Rochon persuaded Rinaldi to become an informant, which prompted Barone to do the same.

Barone said Merlino told him he had buried about half the money in an undisclosed location.

Barone said he blew his own share on gambling, food and clothes, and that his own father-in-law stole some of it from a hole in a basement where it had been buried.