John Morgan is an American mixed martial arts writer, radio host and television commentator.

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John Morgan
Morgan at UFC 232
Nationality	American
Occupation	MMA journalist
Years active	2007–present

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Morgan was the lead staff reporter and co-owner of MMAjunkie.com^[1] (a content partner site of Yahoo! Sports^[2]) and has been covering MMA professionally since 2007.

He is co-host of "MMAjunkie.com Radio,^[3]" which is simulcast on television as "MMAjunkie.com Radio Live" on the upstart Fight Now! TV cable channel. The channel is available on Cablevision in the Northeast U.S.^[4][5][6]

He is also a featured columnist for "Fighters Only" magazine and a frequent contributor to "UFC Magazine", and he previously covered MMA for the "Dallas Morning News."^[7][8]

In addition to his writing work, he's commentated MMA events online and for television for the Tachi Palace Fights,^[9] MMA Xplosion,^[10] Tuff-N-Uff^[11] and Superior Cage Combat^[12] organizations. He also occasionally co-hosts "MMA:30 Radio" on Las Vegas' KXNT Radio 100.5 FM/840 AM.^[13]

Morgan routinely is the first journalist to begin UFC press conferences.

Morgan was awarded MMA Journalist of the Year at the World MMA Awards 2009.^[14] He was nominated for the award again in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 but ultimately lost to Ariel Helwani every time.^[15][16]

As the outlet's lead staff reporter, he also helped lead MMAjunkie.com to MMA Media Outlet of the Year victories at the World MMA Awards in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.^{[17][18][19][20][21]}