MMA Nation Round-Up provides you with daily coverage of the latest in news, multimedia, and analysis throughout the world of combat sports. Today we look at the various beefs, feuds, spats and tweets of the MMA world, look at some tattoos and bone up on submissions.
- Not that MMA is a particularly contentious community, but Gal's Guide to MMA still finds enough fussing to be worthy of a recap in this week's installment of "You Mad?"
- Bloody Elbow takes a broader view of the world of MMA as seen on twitter in How's Taste My Tweet Tweet? Mixed Martial Arts on Twitter for the 4th Week of September.
- Dave Herman vs. Mike Russow is off the UFC 136 card. Nam Phan vs. Leonard Garcia gets promoted to the main card.
- Doug Kublis is carrying the Tattoo of the Week.
- In the aftermath of this year's ADCC submission grappling tournament Tom Grant of Bloody Elbow asks Is Marcelo Garcia the Greatest of All Time?
- Ultimate Submissions presents 'chain grappling' featuring Nate Diaz and TJ Waldburger
- Dallas Winston dissects the Facebook fights on this Saturday's UFC on Versus 6 card.
- Also in anticipation of this weekend's UFC card featuring Dominick Cruz vs. Demetrious Johnson for the 135lb title, Fraser Coffeen looks at the UFC State of the Union: Bantamweight Division.
- Jonathan Snowden looks back at Matt Hughes' top ten moments in the UFC.
- Nate Wilcox asks "First Overeem, Now Badr Hari, Is Kickboxing Done?"
- Exercise Strengthens the Brain, According to a New South Carolina Study - David Castillo
Here's some video of Jon Jones training with Greg Jackson before last Saturday's UFC 135 bout with Rampage Jackson. Pretty interesting insight into the training and strategy process:
And while we're looking back at UFC 135, here's Matt Hughes walking out to the Octagon to face Josh Koscheck: