Dann Stupp (born in Springfield, Ohio; September 14, 1978) is the managing editor for MMA and boxing at The Athletic. [1]
He co-founded the popular mixed martial arts website MMAjunkie.com in 2006 and was its editor in chief until 2018. It is the five-time World MMA Awards "Best Media Source" winner (2008-2011, 2014) and a former content partner of Yahoo! Sports.
In November 2011, Stupp sold the company to USA Today.[2] He continued to work as MMAjunkie.com's editor-in-chief, and he was also named USA Today's senior MMA editor until he left in 2018.[3]
Biography
Stupp is the former interim president of the Mixed Martial Arts Journalists Association. [4]
Stupp was the weekly MMA columnist for the Dayton Daily News/Cox Ohio Newspapers from 2007–2011.
He was formerly Creative Services Manager for the Cincinnati Reds before devoting himself full-time to MMA. He is co-author of Tom Browning's Tales from the Reds Dugout (2006, Sports Publishing LLC, ISBN 1-59670-046-7), and author of Opening Day at Great American Ball Park (Sports Publishing LLC, ISBN 1-58261-724-4, 2003).
Stupp graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism with honors in 2003.
He has previously written for ESPN, San Francisco Chronicle, Cincinnati Reds Magazine and MLB.com. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.
References
- Tom Browning and Dann Stupp (2006). Tom Browning's Tales from the Reds Dugout. Sports Publishing LLC. ISBN 1-59670-046-7
- Specific
- ^ "Dann Stupp, TheAthletic.com". 2019-08-24. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
- ^ "USA Today Acquires Mixed-Martial Arts Site MMAjunkie". 2011-11-15. Archived from the original on 2012-06-24. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- ^ "USA Today Acquires Mixed-Martial Arts Site MMAjunkie.com". 2011-11-14. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- ^ "Media members form first official MMA Journalists Association", by Richard Deitsch, SI.com