Dann Stupp (born in

Springfield, Ohio Springfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Clark County, Ohio, Clark County. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Mad River (Ohio), Mad River, Buck Creek, and Beaver Creek, approxim ...

; September 14, 1978) is a sports editor and author who co-founded the popular

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website

MMAJunkie MMA Junkie is a news website that covers the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA). It was founded in 2006, and is owned by Gannett Company since 2011. The site and its content have been featured in ''Time'' magazine'', ''ESPN The Magazine'', ''The N ...

.com, which

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acquired in 2011. 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

Stupp was Creative Services Manager for the

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when he co-founded MMAjunkie.com in 2006. He is co-author of ''

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's Tales from the Reds Dugout'' (Simon & Schuster, , 2017), and author of ''Opening Day at

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'' (Sports Publishing LLC, , 2003). He then left the

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team and devoted himself full-time to MMA and MMAJunkie.com. The site, which earned a "peerless reputation for providing breaking news", is the five-time

World MMA Awards The World MMA Awards are awards presented by ''Fighters Only'' magazine to honor exceptional performance in various aspects of mixed martial arts. Winners are presented with the ''Fighters Only silver statuette''. The World MMA Awards are divided ...

"Best Media Source" winner (2008-2011, 2014) and a former content partner of

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. 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. Stupp was also the managing editor for MMA and boxing at

The Athletic ''The Athletic'' is a subscription-based sports website that provides national and local coverage in 47 North American cities as well as the United Kingdom. ''The Athletic'' also covers national stories from top professional and college sports ...

from 2019-2020, where he spearheaded the 2020 MMA Fighter Survey project. He was also the weekly MMA columnist for the

Dayton Daily News The ''Dayton Daily News'' (''DDN'') is a daily newspaper published in Dayton, Ohio, United States. It is owned by Cox Enterprises, Inc., a privately held global conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with approximately ...

from 2007–2011, and he also covered the legal gambling industry for

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. He is the former president of the Mixed Martial Arts Journalists Association. Stupp graduated from the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...

School of Journalism with honors in 2003.

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