Stiff Jab
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Type of site
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Boxing, Sports |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Stiff Jab LLC |
| Website | http://StiffJab.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
| 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" and its articles have been highlighted by a range of outlets including NPR,The Huffington Post,Yahoo News,Ta-Nehisi Coates,MSNBC,The Wall Street Journal,Roll CallThe Atlantic,The Hill, Ring Magazine,Fox News, 120 Sports 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 and journalists who link to its content.
The site's founder and main author is Gautham Nagesh, a journalist boxing writer based in Washington, DC and a member of Boxing Writers Association of America, the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and the International Boxing Research Organization. Mr. Nagesh is regularly invited onto national media to discuss boxing and other topics. He is also a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
Staff members include photojournalist Trey Pollard, Seamus McNally Sarah Deming, 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.
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