Stiff Jab

StiffJab
Web address http://StiffJab.com
Commercial Yes
Type of site
 Boxing, Sports
Available in English
Owner Stiff Jab LLC
Launched August 2010
Current status Active

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] The Huffington Post,[3] Yahoo News,[4] and Ta-Nehisi Coates.[5]

Staff

The site's founder and main author is Gautham Nagesh,[6] a boxing writer based in Washington, DC and member of Boxing Writers Association of America, the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board,[7] and the International Boxing Research Organization.[8]

Staff members include photojournalist Trey Pollard,[9] Seamus McNally[10][11] and Sarah Deming,[12][13]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. [14]

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 United States Danny Garcia United States Mike Reed Chris Weidman KOs Anderson Silva at UFC 168 Timothy Bradley vs Ruslan Provodnikov
2012 Jerry Odom Mexico Juan Manuel Marquez United States Dusty Harrison Juan Manuel Márquez KOs Manny Pacquiao Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez IV
2011 Mike Reed

References

  1. ↑ http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-16/sports/38581604_1_news-conference-welterweight-rock-newman
  2. ↑ http://www.npr.org/2011/11/08/142134591/sugar-ray-leonard-remembers-joe-frazier
  3. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/steve-neavling-reporter-pulls-man-suv_n_964964.html
  4. ↑ http://news.yahoo.com/orlando-cruz-boxing-first-openly-gay-fighter-takes-221004568.html
  5. ↑ http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/02/glory-is-a-thoroughly-illiberal-concept/71778/
  6. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauthamnagesh
  7. ↑ http://www.tbrb.org/members/
  8. ↑ http://www.ibroresearch.com/?page_id=126
  9. ↑ http://www.stiffjab.com/post/16281797289/gabriel-rosado-steals-nbc-fight-night-premier-in-philly
  10. ↑ https://medium.com/stiff-jab/adrien-broner-gervonta-davis-score-knockouts-at-d-c-armory-e491e1b09249
  11. ↑ https://medium.com/stiff-jab/gary-russell-jr-kos-patrick-hyland-dff65cd8f506
  12. ↑ http://sarahdeming.com/contact.html
  13. ↑ http://www.stiffjab.com/post/49129505711/brooklyn-boxing-danny-garcia-peter-quillin-win-zab
  14. ↑ http://www.stiffjab.com/masthead

External links

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