Dann Stupp

Dann Stupp
Born (1978-09-14) September 14, 1978 (age 46)
Alma materMissouri School of Journalism
Occupations
  • Sports editor
  • author

Dann Stupp (born in Springfield, Ohio; September 14, 1978) is an American sports editor and author who co-founded the popular mixed martial arts website MMAJunkie.com, which USA Today acquired in 2011.[1]

He is currently senior sports editor for The Action Network and oversees the site's coverage of MMA, boxing, NHL, NASCAR and Formula 1.

Biography

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Stupp was Creative Services Manager for the Cincinnati Reds when he co-founded MMAjunkie.com in 2006. He is co-author of Tom Browning's Tales from the Reds Dugout (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 1-59670-046-7, 2017), and author of Opening Day at Great American Ball Park (Sports Publishing LLC, ISBN 1-58261-724-4, 2003).

He then left the Major League Baseball team and devoted himself full-time to MMA and MMAJunkie.com. The site, which earned a "peerless reputation for providing breaking news",[2] is the five-time World MMA Awards "Best Media Source" winner (2008-2011, 2014) and a former content partner of Yahoo! Sports.

After he sold the company to USA Today, Stupp continued to work as MMAJunkie.com's editor-in-chief, and he was also named USA Today's senior MMA editor. He left the company in 2018.[3]

Stupp was also the managing editor for MMA and boxing at The Athletic from 2019 to 2020,[4] where he spearheaded the 2020 MMA Fighter Survey project.[5] He was also the weekly MMA columnist for the Dayton Daily News from 2007 to 2011, and he also covered the legal gambling industry for Catena Media.[6]

He is the former president of the Mixed Martial Arts Journalists Association.[7]

Stupp graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism with honors in 2003.

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