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" and its articles have been highlighted by a range of outlets including NPR, The Huffington Post, Yahoo News, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Staff
The site's founder and main author is Gautham Nagesh, a boxing writer based in Washington, DC and member of Boxing Writers Association of America, the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and the International Boxing Research Organization.
Staff members include photojournalist Trey Pollard and 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.
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 |