Everyone knows him, even though many may not know his name. Everyone has seen him, too, either in the corner at major boxing matches or administering to another seemingly impossible situation in the cage, looking down on a fighter busted up over his eyebrow with no hope of continuing. He is usually on the periphery, the bespectacled one with the thick head of black hair and white sidewalls, a Q-tip dangling behind an ear, wearing rubber gloves with a towel in one hand and a wad of sealant goop in the other, pressing it against a fighter’s face.
Jacob “Stitch” Duran is the guru of mixed martial arts cutmen.