Looks like there was a big shake-up in the MMA reporting world, according to my buddy Dave
There was a big shake-up in the MMA reporting world. The Athletic, a subscription service built around hiring some of the best sports reporters in the country, decided to get into MMA and beef up on boxing as well. Among their new hirees were Lance Pugmire of the Los Angeles Times, Dann Stupp, who will be managing editor, from MMA Junkie, Chuck Mindenhall and Shaun Al-Shatti from MMA Fighting, Josh Gross, who formerly worked for ESPN and was out of the game for a while partially because UFC would never credential him due to past issues with Dana White, Fernanda Prates of MMA Junkie who is the Brazilian correspondent, Ben Fowlkes of MMA Junkie and US Today and Chad Dundas of Bleacher Report. MMA Fighting, who I work for and had a real all-star team of reporters has been stripped in recent months with Ariel Helwani and Marc Raimondi to ESPN, Mindenhall and Al-Shatti to The Athletic and Dave Doyle to MMA Junkie