Stiff Jab

StiffJab.com is a boxing and MMA website founded in 2010. Stiff Jab covers professional and amateur combat sports with a focus on the East Coast of the U.S. The Washington Post has described Stiff Jab as "a prominent boxing website"[1] and its articles have been highlighted by a range of outlets including NPR,[2][3] The Huffington Post,[4] Yahoo News,[5] Ta-Nehisi Coates,[6] MSNBC,[7] The Wall Street Journal,[8] Roll Call[9] The Atlantic,[10] The Hill, Ring Magazine,[11] Fox News, 120 Sports[12] and countless other mainstream media outlets. Unlike most online boxing sites, Stiff Jab is considered a credible news source, as evidenced by the many websites[13] and journalists[14][15] who link[16] to its content.

StiffJab
Type of site
Boxing, Sports
Available inEnglish
OwnerStiff Jab LLC
EditorSarah Deming, Dr. Octagon J.D., Anna John, Trey Pollard
Key peopleGautham Nagesh (publisher)
URLhttp://StiffJab.com
CommercialYes
LaunchedAugust 2010
Current statusActive

Staff

The site's founder and main author is Gautham Nagesh,[17] a journalist boxing writer based in Washington, DC and a member of Boxing Writers Association of America, the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board,[18] and the International Boxing Research Organization.[19] Mr. Nagesh is regularly invited[20] onto national[21] media[22] to discuss boxing and other topics. He is also a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

Staff members include photojournalist Trey Pollard,[23] Seamus McNally[24] Sarah Deming,[25][26] the author of the children's novel Iris, Messenger (Harcourt, 2007). Her essays appear in the Threepenny Review and the Huffington Post and have been awarded a Pushcart Prize and listed as notable in Best American Essays. She is a former NYC Golden Gloves champion who now volunteers as a strength and conditioning coach at Atlas Cops & Kids in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.[27]

Annual awards

Stiff Jab's first annual award went to Waldorf, Md. boxer Mike "Yes Indeed" Reed, who won the site's first Amateur Boxer of the Year award in 2011. Washington, D.C. Super Middleweight Jerry "2 Tickets 2 Paradise" Odom won the award in 2012. The site also recognizes professional boxing's Fighter of the Year, Prospect of the Year, Fight of the Year and Knockout of the Year annually, as selected by the editorial board.

Below are the past winners:

Year Amateur Boxer of the Year Fighter of the Year Prospect of the Year KO of the Year Fight of the Year
2013 Kareem Martin Danny Garcia Mike Reed Chris Weidman KOs Anderson Silva at UFC 168 Timothy Bradley vs Ruslan Provodnikov
2012 Jerry Odom Juan Manuel Marquez Dusty Harrison Juan Manuel Márquez KOs Manny Pacquiao Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez IV
2011 Mike Reed

References
  1. "D.C. boxer Dusty Hernandez-Harrison, 18, keeps his cool, lands May 18 bout". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  2. "Sugar Ray Leonard Remembers Joe Frazier". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  3. "On Muhammad Ali's Complicated Contradictions, And How He Changed Boxing". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  4. "Steve Neavling, Detroit Reporter, Pulls Man From Overturned SUV (VIDEO)". 15 September 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2017 – via Huff Post.
  5. "Orlando Cruz: Boxing's First Openly Gay Fighter Takes a Jab at Discrimination". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  6. Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "'Glory Is a Thoroughly Illiberal Concept'". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  7. "Mayweather vs. Pacquiao about 'the tale of two men'". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  8. Nagesh, Gautham (8 May 2016). "Canelo Alvarez Defeats Khan With Sixth-Round Knockout". Retrieved 24 March 2017 – via www.wsj.com.
  9. "The Thrilla in Northwest D.C." 20 May 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  10. Nagesh, Gautham. "5 Reasons Boxing May Go Mainstream Again (and 5 Reasons It Won't)". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2016-06-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. The MLB (9 May 2016). "Will We See Golovkin Alvarez". Retrieved 24 March 2017 – via YouTube.
  13. "Stiff Jab: Stiff Jab's Top Five Boxing Longreads of 2011". 29 December 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  14. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2016-06-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. "MEMORIAL DAY EDITION – TOM COTTON for V.P.? – KRISTOL's deep tease -- SANDERS' secret weapon -- WHO KISSED Shane? – B'DAYS: Alan Berger, Kim Kingsley, Frank Thorp". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  16. "Preview: PBC on ESPN 6/4". 3 June 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  17. https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauthamnagesh
  18. "MEMBERS - Transnational Boxing Rankings Board". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  19. "IBRO Member Websites". 20 March 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  20. "Orlando Cruz: Boxing's First Openly Gay Fighter Takes a Jab at Discrimination". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  21. Domonoske, Camila. "Poetic Take On Black Boxer Lands Punches With Broad Appeal". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  22. "'Money' And 'Canelo' Punch It Out For Black And Latino Fans". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  23. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2013-06-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  24. Seamus McNally (July 30, 2016). "Adonis Stevenson KOs Thomas Williams Jr". Stiff Jab.
  25. http://sarahdeming.com/contact.html
  26. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-01-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  27. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-18. Retrieved 2013-06-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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