Jan. 14, 2025

War Machine: The Abuse of Christy Mac

War Machine: The Abuse of Christy Mac

A ”Bad Boys”series episode. 

In this episode of Exposed: Scandalous Files of the Elite, Jim delves into the disturbing subject of domestic violence by bringing you the tragic story surrounding Jon Koppenhaver, who later became known as War Machine....

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Season 1
A ”Bad Boys”series episode.

In this episode of Exposed: Scandalous Files of the Elite, Jim delves into the disturbing subject of domestic violence by bringing you the tragic story surrounding Jon Koppenhaver, who later became known as War Machine. Jim explores the former UFC fighter’s courtship and manipulation of porn star Christy Mac when in his efforts to control her became nearly deadly.

#warmachine #christymac #podcast #ufc #exposed #mma #crime #truecrime #dogthebountyhunter

Chapters
01:27 Introduction to Bad Boy Series
29:57 The Rise of War Machine
53:43 Christy Mack's Harrowing Experience
59:39 Courtroom Drama Ahead

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Sources:
War Machine finds love, gets engaged while serving life in prison https://www.ktnv.com/news/crime/war-machine-finds-love-gets-engaged-while-serving-life-in-prison#google_vignette

Go Get Funding (Appeal Public Funding Page)
https://gogetfunding.com/proper-representation/

A Monster Among Us?: The Dark Descent of War Machine https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2560140-a-monster-among-us-the-dark-descent-of-war-machine

Ken Shamrock: 'War Machine Took My Daughter to Mexico and Left Her over There' https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2172168-ken-shamrock-war-machine-took-my-daughter-to-mexico-and-left-her-over-there

Corey Thomas interview with Primetime Justice (why he didn’t call 911 immediately)
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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of

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the Elite. I am your host, Jim Chapman, and welcome

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to the very first edition of our Bad Boys series.

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And we got a tough one for you straight out

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of the gate.

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So let's get.

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Into it now. A couple of things that led me

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to start out with this particular episode. First, I am

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a huge fan of mixed martial arts, so much so

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I actually started watching the UFC way back in the

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mad nineteen nineties in UFC number one, and I have

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actually watched every single UFC event since, nearly four hundred

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of them, so I already knew this story in most

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of the details. Second was the fact that this episode

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really centers around the domestic violence issue that seems to

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become more and more prevalent these days and what that

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can eventually lead to. It's my hope that if God

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forbid a listener out there is in this situation and

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can relate to this story, maybe this will give you

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the help you need to get the courage to get

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out of this situation. So currently, the UFC is worth

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several billion dollars, but it was not always that way.

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In two thousand and one, the UFC was sold to

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the Vertida brothers, who were law Las Vegas casino owners,

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for two million dollars, and by two thousand and five

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that investment was in the hole to the tune of

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nearly forty million dollars. Now, the CEO at that time,

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who was still the CEO today, was a guy by

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the name of Dana White, and I've actually met Dana White,

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and in the last ditch effort to save the company,

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he had an idea to pitch the show called The

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Ultimate Fighter, where up and coming MMA fighters would compete

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for a contract with the UFC. Now, this was at

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a time when reality TV was huge. It was everywhere.

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Big Brother was a huge sh just gigantic show. Really.

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You had Survivor out there, another gigantic show, and the

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UFC they were trying to maybe piggyback off of that

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and create their own show. And a network existed called

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Spike TV, which was a network marketed for men, and

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the UFC they're thinking it can be more perfect for us,

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So they pitched this reality show and Spike TV hated it.

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So the UFC said well, what if we pay for

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all the production and y'all just put it on your show,

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on your on your channel. Well they were good with that,

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so they agreed to air The Ultimate Fighter and long

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story short, it not only saved the UFC, but it

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became a huge profit generator and completely reversed the history

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of the UFC. So must show y'all that the UFC

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was sold to a big conglomerate a couple of years

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ago for over two billion dollars from a two million

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dollar investment. Unbelievable. Now what does all that have to

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do with the story that I'm going to tell you today. Well,

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in two z thousand and seven, the world was introduced

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to a fighter by the name of John Coppenhaber whose

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nickname was war Machine through the Ultimate Fighter franchise. He

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appeared on the Ultimate Fighter six, and war Machine was

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a fitting nickname for this guy. If you were a

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picture of a fighter, war Machine was what you would picture,

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completely chiseled physically and intimidating looking. He even had a

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tattoo of a hand grenade on the side of his neck.

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And as you look into his background, which during the

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filming of The Ultimate Fighter six, he kind of opened

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up on. He had a tough go of it early

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on in life. Coppenhaber was born in the Los Angeles

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suburb of Semi Valley on November thirtieth of nineteen eighty one.

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His father was an officer for the Los Angeles Police Department,

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and his mother worked as a nurse and later became

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a work at home mother, but she fought a very

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bad drug addiction. Coppenhavior would often take care of his

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younger brother and sister, and when he was thirteen, Coppenhavier

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suffered a pretty significant trauma when he unsuccessfully performed CPR

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on his father after he suffered a heart attack at

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their home and died. Now eventually he became estranged from

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his mother a few years later. In tools around, he

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gets into a lot of street fights, and he spends

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a lot of time in and out of jail for those.

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Type of things.

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And in the year two thousand, he put the fact

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that he enjoyed actually getting into fights to use when

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he started training at Ken SHAMROCK's legendary lions Den now

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Ken Shamrock. He was a legend in Mma. He's one

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of the founding fathers and I guess he saw a

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lot of himself in compenhavior, and he tried to take

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war Machine under his wing. But war Machine would do

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what he always did, it seems, up until that point

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and beyond, and he would fuck over Ken Shamrock by

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getting with SHAMROCK's seventeen year old daughter when war Machine

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was in his twenties. Now, after the story I'm about

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to tell you became public, Shamrock was quoted as saying this,

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The thing that is sad about this is that I

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started John when he first came into Mma. I'm the

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one who broke him in in San Diego. I had

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issues with him my seventeen year old daughter and John

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was like twenty something years old at the time. He

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took her to Mexico and left her over there. He

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then ended up disappearing, and I haven't seen him since.

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He always has been hiding for me because he knows

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if I see him, I will break his neck. He's

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always had an issue with this, and the guy needs help.

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He doesn't need to be doing it on his own.

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He needs to be appointed by the court. They need

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to put him in some sort of rehab where he

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starts understanding, because it doesn't have anything to do with him. Naturally,

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it has to do with him out partying and doing

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things he shouldn't be doing. He needs help. They need

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to get him off the street. So that was after

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what I'm about to tell you took place. So Shamrock

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is saying this in hindsight, but went off with that

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man's seventeen year old daughter and left him and left

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her in Mexico. That right there told you something, right,

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Something's a little awful war Machine, right. But despite all

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these obstacles in two thousand and seven, war Machine did

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manage to get on the Ultimate Fighter six after another

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fighter got hurt, and this would springboard war Machine into popularity.

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He didn't win the Ultimate Fighter, as a matter of fact,

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he lost his very first fight, but due to his

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look and the skills that he had, the UFC signed

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him to a contract. Anyway, Remember I told you he

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looks like a total badass and he is for all

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intent and purposes. Now, you would think this would put

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him on the right track. I mean, he's making some money,

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he's popular online. But again, you can't fix dumbass people sometimes,

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and war Machine could not keep his ass out of

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trouble in September second of two thousand and seven, Coppenhaber

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was found guilty of striking a Los Angeles man in

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the face and choking him unconscious during a parking lot scuffle.

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In February of two thousand and eight, he was sentenced

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to three years of probation in thirty days of community service,

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avoiding the possible felony charge and accompanying prison time that

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would go along with it. Then, in February twenty second

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of two thousand and eight, Coppenhavier pleaded guilty to a

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he missed demeanor charge of assault and battery, and he

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was fined in sentenced to probation. That same year, he

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legally legally changed his name to war Machine after a

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legal dispute with a wrestling entertainment company over the use

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of his nickname. Now, he was an average fighter at

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best among the stars of the UFC, but he's still

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among the stars of the UFC and other MMA promotions.

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But even with all that, even with his luck and

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everything that went along with it, the UFC they got

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tired of all this shit and all these arrested and

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having to baby this guy, and they eventually release John

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Coppenhavior so war Machine fights for some other organizations, and

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in two thousand and nine, while still fighting, war Machine

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enters the adult film industry, actually filming his first scene

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with adult film star Riley Steele. In his announcement on Twitter,

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he proudly stated that he cannot believe he is getting

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paid to do two of his favorite things, fight and fuck,

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and incidentally, war Machine very active Twitter guy throughout his

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time prior to his arrest and even since his arrest,

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and we'll get into that, but the trouble was not

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over for war Machine, even in two thousand and nine,

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even though he's getting paid to do his two favorite things,

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as he just said. In August of twenty ten, Coppenhavier

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was sentenced to one year in the County jail for

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a felony assault conviction stemming from a bar fight in

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Point Loma, California, as well as an additional fight at

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a bar in Pacific Beach, which is by San Diego.

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He was imprisoned in San Diego's George Bailey County Detention Facility,

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mostly in solitary confinement, and after going to jail, war

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Machine maintained his Twitter account even in jail, as well

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as a blog documenting his time in jail. So on

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February first of twenty twelve, it was announced via war

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Machine's Twitter that he would be serving another year of

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jail time due to preceding events quote unquote. He was

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released on October twenty ninth of twenty twelve, after serving

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nearly two years and two months in jail. Now, sometime

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between his first and second jail stints, which he only

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lasted out of jail seven months, he was married to

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a girl from Hungary, but she got deported during his

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second stint and that was it. And there's not a

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whole lot about it. So here he is the quintessential

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bad boy, right And if you were arguably the most

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beautiful porn star in the industry at the time, Christy Mack,

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he was irresistible. But Christy Mack, she was not always

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a porn star. She was born Christine mcaday on May

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ninth of nineteen ninety one in Chicago, Illinois, and she

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grew up in Edinburgh, Indiana, which is in what you

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would consider small town America, only four thousand residents, and

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not the type of place she would expect the top

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porn star in the world to have been raised. She

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was a cheerleader at her high school, and right out

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of high school, she gets married to her high school sweetheart.

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She was just eighteen years old at the time, but

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Christy had a very unique look and unique taste. She

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was very fond of tattoos. She actually got her first

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at sixteen years of age, and she was known for

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the styles of her hair. She actually cut her hair

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kind of in a mohawk style. But it sounds really crazy,

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I'm telling you, she pulled it off. She looked absolutely

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beautiful with it, but that was her look. It was

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kind of that grungy beauty look, and it was through

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that look that she got discovered. It led to a

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modeling gig in Miami and a divorce less than two

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years into her marriage, and that eventually led to adult

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films for Christine mcaday, whose film name was Christy mack Now.

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Although she looked like a wild child, Christy was actually

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pretty straight laced outside of you know, the whole having

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sex on camera for money thing, and she did not drink, smoke,

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or do drugs of any kind. So in twenty twelve,

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she gets into the porn industry at twenty years old,

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and a year later she's winning every award in the industry,

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including Newcomer of the Year. But as much success as

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she was seeing, her life was about to take on

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a collision course that would nearly kill her. So in

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April of twenty thirteen, Christy Mack gets a phone call

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from Hustler magazine. They said they had a popular Mma

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fighter by the name of war Machine who was doing

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a photo shoot in the magazine and they wanted her

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to appear in the photo shoot with him. So, after negotiating,

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Christy went to the photo shoot and, as she described

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sparksflu Now that particular day, she was suffering from a

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nasty bout of pneumonia, and war Machine he, being the

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gentleman he is right, offers to go to her hotel

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room and take care of her, and she figured, ah,

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he's just trying to bang me. She made it clear

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over the phone, we're not gonna have sex, but if

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you want to come over and hang out, that's fine.

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He agreed, and he showed up at her hotel room

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and they talked for hours over pizza, and Mac was

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absolutely hooked on war Machine. So she falls fast, and

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she falls hard for war Machine, and he seemed to

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had fell fast for her as well. It was not

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long before they even got tattoos signifying their relationship, with

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war Machine having a huge tattoo on his neck that

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said Mac m ac across it and Christy having one

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on her back and shoulder that said property of war Machine.

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So here is a clip of an interview they did

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on the MMA Hour discussing the tattoos, and listen closely

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because there's an eerie premonition of what was to come

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for the relationship.

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Did that hurt though?

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That seems like it would really hurt your Adam's apple?

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Now what Adam's apple? I thought I was gonna hurt.

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It didn't hurt you.

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Didn't happened Adams apple.

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He doesn't come exist.

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Right here like under the Jaws. When really hurt?

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Though?

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That Adams Apple was not bad?

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And then if things don't work out for you know, God,

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forbidden reason, you could just say you're a Mac, like

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you're a Mac daddy. Yeah, But I just thought of

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what I would do is I would just kill her

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and then I'll put it's fair enough, really, I'll put

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rest in peace.

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Max.

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Then I was like, this is memorial to my dad.

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Grow up and I don't know what happened there, shoe.

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I mean, honestly, I would probably deserve it.

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So there you have it, And did you pick that

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up that little jag at the end? Keep that in mind. Now,

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times were not always good for the couple. They were

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on and off again constantly. So here's Christy Mack on

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the Holly Randall Unfiltered Podcast describing what those early moths

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dating war Machine was like.

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War Machine have been tweeting me because Twitter was huge

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back then in twenty thirteen.

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Yeah, woo.

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He had been tweeting me, and I never gave him

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any sort of attention.

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I was a very private person.

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I still am a very private person, but back then

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I didn't want to be involved with anyone with any notoriety.

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I didn't want to distract myself from, you know, saving

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up my nest egg and preparing for my future.

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But eventually I gave in when I got an.

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Offer from Hustler. Hustler said, uh, the magazine. They said,

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we have an opportunity to shoot with this guy who's

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an inmate fighter, but the only way he will do

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the photo shoot is if you're in it too.

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And I said, well, how much are you going to pay?

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Me, and they're like, well, we were hoping that it

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would just be, you know, a trade for publishing.

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And I was like, it sounds like Hustler. Absolutely the

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fuck not.

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I like him.

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I love Hustler, I love Larry but yeah, yeah no.

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So I was like, well, if you want to actually

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take this seriously and you want either of us or

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both of us, you're going to have to pay me.

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So they ended up paying me.

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We did the shoot and I met him and he

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was a very intense character, like a larger than life personality, loud,

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just very fun and he was very respectful of me

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and my boundaries.

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On that shoot.

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I was a little under the weather. This is before

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I think it was a few days before my twenty

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first birthday twentieth or twenty first birthday, and I had

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just moved out to Vegas.

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I was under the weather.

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It turns out I had pneumonia and kidney stones. Yeah

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that was fun, but I was young and afraid of doctors,

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so yeah, I got handle this. Yeah.

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I was like, I got sick and.

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At the shoot he was like, Hey, I'm a little worried.

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You know that you're not feeling well. Can I come

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and check in?

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On you later, and I was like, oh, that's very nice.

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Actually like that, that'd be great. You can come over

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to my hotel room. But we're not having sex.

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Yeah, And that was like the.

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First day I laid it out. We're not having sex.

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We just banged for this magazine. We're not we're not

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doing it. And he said, Okay, that's fine. Let me

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bring you some food, make sure you're okay, and so

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he did, and we kept in contact and we were texting.

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He made sure that I got back to Vegas okay

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because I had driven back and forth, and we just

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kept in contact, and my mom was like, Wow, that's

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a really nice guy. He's really looking out for you

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and making sure you're all right.

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Like, maybe you should look into this a little more.

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And within the next two months, he had just love

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bombed me and made me feel like the most important

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person in the world, really put me up on a pedestal,

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told me he would do anything for me, and he

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had been pursuing me for well over a year at

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this point, so I truly believed it, and.

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From there it just blew up. We decided to.

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Enter in a relationship and we went public with it.

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Within a couple of months. Everyone loved it. It was salacious,

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you know, a porn star and an MM star really

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just being messy because everyone loves a messy couple on Twitter,

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like we live for it.

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And I was the messy couple.

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And I was young, and I was jealous because you know,

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he would hit on other women, and this whole.

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Time he was sleeping with other women, and I didn't know.

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I suspect I suspected it, but and I was jealous,

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and so I would go on Twitter and be like,

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how dare you?

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I'm leaving you on Twitter?

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And it's like, I'm twenty one years old, like I

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was a twenty one year old should not have access

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to the Internet.

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And so we would go back and forth on and

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off couple for a few months. And the first time

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that he hit me, we had.

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Just gotten back from a trip and something had set

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him off that he had seen on Twitter.

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His roommate was giving us a ride back to his apartment.

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We were in the back seat and he slapped a

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shit out of me right in front of his roommate,

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and his roommate just parked the car and left and

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just left him in the back seat, hitting me and

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I was like, oh, it makes you feel like a

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big man, hit me again?

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And would I would say things like.

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That because that's what gave me power, It's what made

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me feel like I was more in control of the situation, Like, Okay,

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do it again.

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You think you're hurting me, do it again. Then if

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you feel like a big man.

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And so then I would leave him, and then he

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would send me flowers or something and tell me he

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was sorry and bring me food again and just show

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me attention, positive attention, and then I'd fall back into

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the ways.

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Because I was.

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So young and I had never seen any domestic violence

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in my life before, I didn't think that it was

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happening to me.

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I was conflating his abuse with.

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Passion and if he cares about me this much enough

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to really hurt me, like I just I the ways

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that I was kind of.

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Validating it in my own mind.

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I can't see why I was thinking that way then,

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But you know, in retrospect, everything is easier, and I

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should have left and I should have stayed away, and

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there's so many things that I could have done differently.

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Wow, so early on in this relationship, the signs were there.

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And if you notice in that clip. Even now, after

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all those things that war Machine did to her, which

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we will get into, she's still kind of blaming herself.

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Bring up in that clip that she would get jealous

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of women commenting on his Twitter. I'm just like, she's

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excusing the slap in the face that he gave her.

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But that was just the start of the violence. In

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this next clip, mag discusses the escalation of that violence

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and why it took her so long to leave war Machine.

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And here's what that sounded like.

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Over the next year or so, we would go back

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and forth and then out of the relationship, and he

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would hit me, usually open handed, and chook me out,

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and you know, things like that.

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Very serious things. But to me, I was like, oh,

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it's not that bad.

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And he had ended up breaking a couple of my teeth,

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like chipping them, and you know, left bruises all of

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the time, and I still.

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Kept coming back. Yeah, and then I made the decision

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to really.

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Leave him, and we had completely separated our things. He

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lived in San Diego, I lived in Las Vegas.

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Were you scared to leave him?

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Like, did he ever threaten to hurt you if you

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left him?

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Always?

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I remember laying in bed with him in San Diego,

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and after one blowout over a straightener, of all things,

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a hair straightener, he had tossed me into his fireplace

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and broke off a tile on my forehead. And I

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remember laying in his bed screaming, crying, in so much pain,

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and he told me like, I will kill you. I

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have friends in the hills, angels. I will send them

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after you and your family.

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You will die Jesus, oh yeah.

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And he told me this different versions, and he would

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I don't know if he was actually texting people or

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just pretending to text people.

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He's like, I'm gonna tell him right now.

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And you know, you don't know how to react like that,

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with that fear looming over you at all times, you

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don't know what's true and what's not. You don't know

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what kind of powers or persuasion he has as another

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public figure.

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So if I just I stayed. So I was.

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Very afraid of him, but I did make the decision

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to leave, and I started seeing another guy I cut

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it off with, cut it off with him, and kept

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a friendship with him.

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And that is John, not with John.

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With the other guy that I was seeing, and he

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lived in Las Vegas as well.

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Now this is what I would call the typical stages

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of domestic violence. Maybe it starts out with a smag,

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then it grows to a punch, Then you say you

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were going to leave, then the threat start, and then

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violence escalates even further, and they you're getting fireplace tiles

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broken over your fucking head and your teeth get chipped.

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And credit here to Christy Mack that she eventually does leave,

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but she does not move on. She stays friends with

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war Machine. They would even continue texting back and forth,

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and she even admits they would flirt back and forth

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over these texts. Often this continued contact, even just through

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phone calls and text when you're dealing with this piece

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of shit like war Machine, bad idea. And on August

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eighth of twenty fourteen, the decision to not completely cut

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ties with war Machine nearly killed her. And before I

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get into it, I need to tell you about Corey Thomas.

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Corey was really nothing like war Machine. He owned a

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successful business in Las Vegas, and he had a shit together.

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He was way more passive than war Machine. And although

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he was not a high level MMA fighter, he did

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train for a couple of years in Mma, and he

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was a wrestler in high school. He was physically in shape, muscular,

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and although on August eighth of twenty fourteen they were

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no longer dating, they were still very good friends. When

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Christy called Corey to see if he would help her

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pack for a convention in Las Vegas the next day,

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and he was more than happy to do so. He

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still loved Christy and really wanted to be her boyfriend again.

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They stay up late, they're getting all this stuff ready,

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and it's so late in the night. They got to

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be up early the next morning and he decides to

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stay over. She allows that and they get into bed together.

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Although they don't have sex, he just sleeps next to her.

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So they work all this out. Corey lays down with

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Christy in the bed to get some sleep before helping

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her set up at that convention in just a few hours,

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00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:07.160
and about forty minutes later, nine to one one would

469
00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:11.960
receive a call and I want to warn you before

470
00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:16.119
I play this clip. It's very disturbing and it could

471
00:29:16.119 --> 00:29:19.480
be triggering to some listeners, and it's a bit muffled,

472
00:29:20.599 --> 00:29:24.799
but it paints a picture of the pure rage in

473
00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:29.400
war machine. So here it is and then we're going

474
00:29:29.480 --> 00:29:41.559
to talk about what you heard.

475
00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:42.880
What is gonna hear anything?

476
00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:11.440
You know? It's so rough?

477
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:35.319
He com.

478
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:43.480
B that.

479
00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:56.839
Real blows.

480
00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:54.440
What's so? It's oh, I am stepping up on the.

481
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:21.599
Yeah, all right?

482
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:26.720
So what happened to trigger that call? Again? This can

483
00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:31.200
be disturbing for some listeners. Christy Mack and Corey Thomas

484
00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:36.960
were asleep. Christy, who had two pit bulls, heard them growling,

485
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:41.279
as did Corey. She kind of opened her eyes and

486
00:32:41.400 --> 00:32:43.960
it was at that very second the lights in her

487
00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:48.279
bedroom came on and standing above her and Corey is

488
00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:53.160
war Machine. Corey, who is unfortunately laying right next to

489
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:57.039
Christy at this time, opens his eyes and the first

490
00:32:57.119 --> 00:33:01.400
thing he sees is war Machine southing the words.

491
00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:04.039
What the fuck?

492
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:12.119
And then the fight breaks out. Now, before we get

493
00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:17.200
into it, Corey already has two major things going against him. First,

494
00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:20.559
he's waking up out of a dead sleep. I mean,

495
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:22.920
this guy did not even have a second to think

496
00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:26.839
before a war machine was on top of him. Second,

497
00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:32.519
war Machine is a trained world class fighter, and not

498
00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:36.000
just trained to punch. He's trained to apply some missions

499
00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:41.160
such as chokes, arm bars, leg locks that are specifically

500
00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:46.759
designed to break limbs. Honestly, in a normal everyday situation

501
00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:50.759
where Corey's faculties were at full force, he wouldn't stand

502
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:54.240
a chance against a trained fighter of war machines caliber.

503
00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:59.000
And in no time he finds himself fighting for his life.

504
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:03.400
War Machine jumps on top of Corey and he is

505
00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:08.639
raining down blows to Corey's face a barrage of punches.

506
00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:14.639
Corey covers up. He's trying to protect himself. Fifteen fast

507
00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:20.280
quick hits. Corey reaches up and he manages to grab

508
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:23.760
the back of war Machine's neck and he yanks him

509
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:27.000
down kind of to flatten him out. And y'all, this

510
00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:30.079
is to keep war Machine from punching him and negates

511
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:34.440
his ability, meaning war Machines to posture up and have

512
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:39.079
any power behind those punches. But when Corey does that

513
00:34:39.719 --> 00:34:43.719
and they are basically face to face with war Machine

514
00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:47.199
lying on top of him in that bed, war Machine

515
00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:52.800
bites him on the cheekbone. So Corey is fighting for

516
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:55.519
his life on this bed, and at some point war

517
00:34:55.639 --> 00:35:00.679
Machine bites his arm when Corey attempts to him over.

518
00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:05.920
So at this point Corey uses his feet and basically

519
00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:10.679
is able to kick war Machine off of him. Corey

520
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:13.599
then attempts to stand up, but war Machine does one

521
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:16.880
thing Corey does not want him to do. He takes

522
00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:21.320
Corey's back and he starts applying what's known as a

523
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:27.079
rear naked choke, basically a choke from behind to cut

524
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:31.840
off the oxygen supply to Corey's brain. The only thing

525
00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:35.239
Corey could do at this point is try to bounce

526
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:40.119
war Machine's body off of him by running backwards into

527
00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:42.400
every wall that he could find. And that was the

528
00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:45.280
thuds you were hearing when you were hearing those thuds

529
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:49.480
in the nine one one call. That was literally Corey

530
00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:54.599
running war Machine backwards into a wall. So they end

531
00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:59.559
up during all this in the bathroom, and that choke

532
00:35:59.840 --> 00:36:04.599
is getting deeper and deeper, and Corey knows I'm about

533
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:08.079
to die. I can't get out of this one. He

534
00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:13.119
starts to lose consciousness and at the very last second

535
00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:17.880
he's able to break that choke. He's able to get

536
00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:25.440
war Machine's arms from around his neck. Now at this point,

537
00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:29.280
he notices war Machine looks like he's a little tired,

538
00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:33.599
he's a little winded, and war Machine is behind him

539
00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:36.159
and he's still kind of holding him. But he's not

540
00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:42.760
able to choke him, and he starts interrogating him. During

541
00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:46.119
all this, war Machine starts asking Corey, who are you

542
00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:51.119
claiming that Corey was his girl and all this shit,

543
00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:53.840
and then he looks at Christy and he starts screaming

544
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:56.280
at her, and he says, tell him you love me,

545
00:36:56.920 --> 00:37:00.719
tell him you're my girl, etc. And Christy what she doing.

546
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:06.760
She's complying, I love you, I'm your girl, all those

547
00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:10.000
sorts of things, because she knows if she doesn't say

548
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:12.760
what war Machine wants her to say, he will kill

549
00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:18.840
Corey Thomas. So he then lets Corey up and basically

550
00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:22.760
Corey says, you know, what do you want to do?

551
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:23.039
Now?

552
00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:25.559
What are you gonna kill me? What are we gonna do?

553
00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:31.599
And they coming up with an agreement where war Machine

554
00:37:31.639 --> 00:37:34.000
basically says, if I let you live, if I let

555
00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:36.599
you go, you better not tell a fucking soul about this.

556
00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:40.039
I know people who would kill you. My boys will

557
00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:43.920
come and kill you. I'm friends with the Hell's Angels.

558
00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:44.119
All this stuff.

559
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:51.679
And Corey does what personally, I cannot believe this dude did.

560
00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:56.199
He gets his overnight bag from the side of the

561
00:37:56.239 --> 00:38:02.599
bed and he leaves the fucking house, leaving Christy Mack

562
00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:10.440
behind in war machine keyed up like a fucking piano.

563
00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:17.079
The fight itself lasted nearly twelve minutes, which is a

564
00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:20.199
lifetime for a fight. Usually a fight is over in

565
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:23.360
less than two So if you think the story ends there,

566
00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:27.800
that Corey left, police were called and they're on their way,

567
00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:30.840
well you would be wrong. First of all, the police

568
00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:34.559
weren't on their way because the cell phone nine one

569
00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:37.880
one call I played you cut off before the police

570
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:41.360
could trace it. What I will tell you is that

571
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:48.119
for the next two hours straight, Christy Mack would be

572
00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:56.320
nearly beaten to death. So about four am, police respond

573
00:38:56.519 --> 00:38:59.800
to a few nine to one one calls from Christy's neighbors.

574
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:04.079
One of the neighbors reported that a bloody, naked woman

575
00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:08.119
was banging on their door pleading for help. Other neighbors

576
00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:11.360
weren't sure what they were seeing, but they were reporting

577
00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:14.519
a suspicious person banging on their door in the middle

578
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:18.760
of the night. When police arrive at the scene, they

579
00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:23.320
find Christy laying on the ground, bloodied, bruised. Her eyes

580
00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:27.199
were swollen shut, and she was taken by an ambulance

581
00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:32.639
to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas. Now, about the time

582
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:36.639
that Christy was transported to the hospital, police receive another

583
00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:40.320
nine on one call, this one coming from Web Squad,

584
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:43.800
which was a business that Corey Thomas owned, which was

585
00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.400
about five miles away from the scene, and when they

586
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:50.599
arrived there, they find Corey Thomas, who was also bloodied

587
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:54.840
and beaten the shit out of and Corey told the

588
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:58.960
officers that Christy's ex boyfriend, war Machine, had gotten into

589
00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:02.360
the house while they had been sleeping and savagely attacked

590
00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:06.760
him while he was laying in bed. War Machine didn't

591
00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:10.039
allow him to leave, and Corey did so, thinking that

592
00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:14.239
Christy would be okay. Boy, that was bad judgment. He

593
00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:18.400
said that he didn't believe that war Machine was gonna

594
00:40:18.400 --> 00:40:21.599
beat her. He felt like war Machine took all his

595
00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:26.280
anger out on himself. But the officers told him that

596
00:40:26.440 --> 00:40:29.239
Christy had been transported to the hospital, and they advised

597
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:33.480
Corey that he needed to seek medical help too, and

598
00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:38.559
so he went, Now, let's talk about that for a second.

599
00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:43.360
Understand that this guy got his ass kicked, but I

600
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:47.960
got to pull Corey Thomas's man cord right here. Number one.

601
00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:54.519
You left her there with a guy who was obviously

602
00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:58.800
out of his mind at the moment. But okay, maybe

603
00:40:58.840 --> 00:41:03.960
he were scared. Whatever you leave, you'd wait two hours

604
00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:09.800
to call the police. I just cannot imagine even leaving

605
00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:13.719
her there, much less not calling the police until two

606
00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:17.159
hours later. This makes no sense to me. It's outrageous.

607
00:41:18.360 --> 00:41:21.800
Of course, Corey Thomas, he knows full well the optics

608
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:25.440
of that. And in order to say face, I guess,

609
00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:29.679
he goes on an interview with Prime Time Justice and

610
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:32.880
he tries to lay out his reasons why he left

611
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:36.599
and why he waited so long to call the police.

612
00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:39.960
And here is what that sounded like.

613
00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:42.880
I asked you that question about leaving and about not

614
00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:43.719
calling the police.

615
00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:45.480
Do you feel guilt?

616
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:46.440
Do you feel shame?

617
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:50.199
Why did you not contact the police regardless of what

618
00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:51.320
threat he made against you?

619
00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:57.039
So, during our fight, while we're still fighting in towards

620
00:41:57.079 --> 00:42:01.000
the end of the fight, as I changed them, started

621
00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:04.519
the conversation. You know, she's in the background telling him

622
00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:06.679
that she loves him, that she was going to marry

623
00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:10.360
him today, and that he's his man, she's his man,

624
00:42:10.519 --> 00:42:12.039
and vice versa.

625
00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:13.159
You know that whole conversation.

626
00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:15.599
And so I say to myself, why aren't the police here?

627
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:18.800
Why why hasn't. She called the police, and I say

628
00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:21.079
to myself, it's time to start finding out what's going

629
00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:22.840
to happen. You want to kill me, you want to

630
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:24.719
let me go, because there's really two options. You either

631
00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:27.440
get busy and you get get kids killing me, or

632
00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:30.440
this is over. And if it's over, then we fought.

633
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:33.159
And if she's your girl, then you guys obviously have

634
00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:34.599
some serious issues to work out.

635
00:42:34.639 --> 00:42:37.480
So are you telling me when you left you were

636
00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:38.679
under the impression she was.

637
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:39.360
Going to be okay?

638
00:42:41.400 --> 00:42:45.559
Yeah, two guys fight, that's the end of it. I've

639
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:46.760
never hit a woman in my life.

640
00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:47.320
I never will.

641
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:49.880
I was raised with three three sisters and a single mother.

642
00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:52.840
You're good you were a.

643
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:53.599
Good friend of hers.

644
00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:56.360
Had she never told you anything about their relationship? I mean,

645
00:42:56.440 --> 00:43:00.119
this was one rocking and rolling relationship, she thinks, and

646
00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:01.360
she'd been bruised, cheap and cut.

647
00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:02.559
You didn't think that a.

648
00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:04.719
Guy who'd done that to her before might just take

649
00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:05.400
the boots.

650
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:05.840
To her after you.

651
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.280
That was a complete secret. And we were a lot

652
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:12.000
more than friends at the time. We had been seeing

653
00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:15.239
each other and sleeping in you know, two months, I

654
00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:18.199
mean two months of serious dating and kept it all

655
00:43:18.239 --> 00:43:20.639
a secret for me. All of it, even to the

656
00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:23.199
last text of her picture to him right before we

657
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:25.679
got into bed, all came out in court. So that's

658
00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:28.440
so complete misdirection on her side.

659
00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:34.840
So Christy gets interviewed at the hospital by investigators and

660
00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:41.119
she was so severely beaten that she could barely talk.

661
00:43:41.679 --> 00:43:45.960
Everything was slurred and police would have to get her

662
00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:49.679
to repeat information twice just to make sure they got

663
00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:54.559
the information correct. Now, war Machine at this time, he's

664
00:43:54.639 --> 00:43:58.079
on the run, right, he hasd seven warns out for

665
00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:04.639
his arrest that included multiple counts a battery, assault, coersion.

666
00:44:05.239 --> 00:44:09.960
But the absolute narcissist that war Machine is, he can't

667
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:13.239
stand the thought of everyone thinking this was his fault.

668
00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:16.159
I mean, he is the victim here in his mind.

669
00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:19.920
He walked in on her with a guy, right, And

670
00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:24.719
he turns to Twitter, his favorite outlet, to explain that

671
00:44:26.440 --> 00:44:30.280
and spend his narrative. At a fourteen am that day,

672
00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:33.000
the same day all this went down, just hours after

673
00:44:33.079 --> 00:44:37.079
the attack, he tweets, I can't believe this. I must

674
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:42.079
be cursed. Then the next day, at five h six pm,

675
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:46.559
he tweets at Christy Mack, I love you and I

676
00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:50.159
hope you're okay. I came home early to surprise you

677
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:52.800
and help you set up for your convention. I can't

678
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:56.719
believe what I found and can't believe what happened her fault.

679
00:44:56.840 --> 00:45:00.559
Right Then, he tweets, all I want it was to

680
00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:03.800
surprise you and help you and do something nice. Now this,

681
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:07.800
I'm so heartbroken in all ways. I will always love

682
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:12.039
you as fuck. That is narcissism at his best, is

683
00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:17.760
it not. He's so heartbroken, unbelievable. Then the next day,

684
00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:20.880
at ten forty five pm on August tenth, while still

685
00:45:20.960 --> 00:45:24.880
on the run, he sends out a series of tweets,

686
00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:29.000
including I'm not a bad guy. I went to surprise

687
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:31.960
my girlfriend, help her get set up for a show,

688
00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:34.880
and give her an engagement ring, and ended up fighting

689
00:45:35.039 --> 00:45:38.599
for my life. Then the cops will not give me

690
00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:42.280
fair play, They'll never believe me. Still deciding what to do.

691
00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:44.960
But at the end of the day, it's all just heartbreaking.

692
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:45.440
Now.

693
00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:47.960
In every single one of these tweets, he's doing what

694
00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:51.719
abusers do right. He is blaming the entire thing on

695
00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:55.480
everyone else but himself, and he is trying to play

696
00:45:55.559 --> 00:45:59.280
to Christy's emotions because he knows she's gonna see those

697
00:45:59.320 --> 00:46:03.360
tweets by playing into her emotions and telling her how

698
00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:09.440
much he loves her. What a fucking dick. So news

699
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:16.239
of all this it gets around fast, and Dog the

700
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:22.599
Bonnie Hunter he is personally appalled by what was all

701
00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:25.800
over the news, and he releases his own Twitter statement

702
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:30.639
to war Machine directly, and he tweets, better to give

703
00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:34.960
all your excuses to the judge. You have twenty four

704
00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:39.280
hours to turn yourself in or I am coming for

705
00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:43.360
you now. Dog the Bonney Hunter then does a TV

706
00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:48.360
interview with h Ellen's Jane Mitchell where he issues another

707
00:46:48.480 --> 00:46:51.960
warning to war Machine. And here's what that sounded like,

708
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:54.199
gread had to Dog the Boundiy Hunter.

709
00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:57.360
Queen Shavin a dog, thanks for joining us. I understand

710
00:46:57.400 --> 00:47:00.800
your life from an undisclosed location. Are are you closing

711
00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:04.400
in on this man known as war Machine? And if so,

712
00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:08.280
how are you gonna protect yourself? Because everybody's saying, including

713
00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:09.519
the cops, this guy is violent.

714
00:47:11.760 --> 00:47:14.960
Well, yes, we're closing in and we use non lethal weapons,

715
00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:17.599
so we uh, you know, we don't want to say

716
00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:21.760
we want him to resist, but as let it be,

717
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:25.239
you know, so if he does, then he's still going

718
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:26.280
to jail. No matter what.

719
00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:29.880
Well, this isn't his first running with the law. This

720
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:31.519
guy has got a history.

721
00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:33.599
In two thousand and nine, he was arrested for felony

722
00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:34.679
domestic violence.

723
00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:37.119
He ended up pleading guilty to a misdemeanor.

724
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:40.199
Twenty eleven, a club patron alleged that this guy beat

725
00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:42.800
him up, and there was a lawsuit and now he's

726
00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:46.480
facing seven charges. We've got to take a look once

727
00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:49.960
again at the injuries of this young woman, Christy Mack.

728
00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:52.440
I mean, this is brutal, and.

729
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:55.239
We're gonna show you those pictures in a second. Does

730
00:47:55.320 --> 00:47:57.679
it make you angry that this guy who is a

731
00:47:57.960 --> 00:47:59.920
trained fighter and then they.

732
00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:07.079
Hate a woman, Well, absolutely, you know. He What has

733
00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:09.840
got been let out is that one of her statements was,

734
00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:12.719
you know, as he was on top of her beating her,

735
00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:15.840
she could see her blood, you know, splattering all over

736
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:19.400
his face and into his mouth, and she said, dog,

737
00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:22.320
there was no referee to stop it. He just kept

738
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:25.000
beating me and beating me. She thought for sure she

739
00:48:25.159 --> 00:48:27.639
was going to die. So this is what sparked our

740
00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:31.920
team to to go after this guy number one. You know,

741
00:48:32.079 --> 00:48:34.599
he's in our world, the world of a tough guy. Okay,

742
00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:38.039
So we have a lot of friends in the MMA

743
00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:41.360
world and they're not like this. He's like a white

744
00:48:41.800 --> 00:48:44.920
MMA guy and uses that, you know, to make make

745
00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:47.639
it through his life and the bully people around. But

746
00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:50.639
you know, his days of bully and is almost over.

747
00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:53.320
He's got a friend waiting for him in prison by

748
00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:55.679
the name of Andrew Luster and Love.

749
00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:58.519
That's the guy you caught the cosmetics era that you

750
00:48:58.679 --> 00:48:59.760
caught down in Mexico.

751
00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:04.239
Yes, I remember I covered you on that story, Dwayne.

752
00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:06.400
Let me let me watch another clip of your show

753
00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:10.840
Catching Criminals on CMT with you and Beth, and we're

754
00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:12.760
just gonna roll through and show it. Well, I talk

755
00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:16.199
because I want to get back to this investigation.

756
00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:19.199
You know, this beating that this.

757
00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:25.800
MMA stars being sought for happen in Nevada and Las Vegas, Nevada.

758
00:49:26.119 --> 00:49:30.000
Now warm Sheet is apparently from San Diego. Cops thought

759
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:32.280
maybe he might go to San Diego, but apparently not.

760
00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:33.960
So where the hell is he?

761
00:49:34.119 --> 00:49:34.320
Dog?

762
00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:37.119
And how are you gonna track him down? He's been tweeting,

763
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:40.880
So are you able to track his pings or are

764
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:42.840
you going with the credit cards or are you talking

765
00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:43.519
to his friends?

766
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:47.920
Well, you know, it's a new world, a new new

767
00:49:48.199 --> 00:49:51.400
things are happening. And for instance, on the social media,

768
00:49:51.559 --> 00:49:53.960
on Twitter, we've got you know, we were just figuring

769
00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:56.079
it out a minute ago. We've got about four hundred

770
00:49:56.119 --> 00:50:00.360
thousand Facebook, Twitter people around waiting for him. We've got

771
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:06.079
all the places he's ever been, gyms, restaurants, bars, anything

772
00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:10.000
he's ever done. We've got people stationed at every single spot.

773
00:50:10.280 --> 00:50:13.719
It's amazing what we can do now with the social networks.

774
00:50:14.199 --> 00:50:19.159
Every single person has got a picture of him. Everybody's

775
00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:22.119
on hold, they're all ready to dial in. You know,

776
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:24.599
all this guy has to do is make one mistake.

777
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:27.559
The only way this guy can outrun us right now

778
00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:31.760
is to starve himself to death, and you know that'll

779
00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:36.079
take about forty seven So there's no way this guy

780
00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:37.280
is ever going to get away.

781
00:50:38.159 --> 00:50:42.760
So the pressure is mounting. Local police, state police, the

782
00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:47.000
US Marshals, and even dogs the mounting hunter are looking

783
00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:51.320
for this deed. Christy Max's family and friends offer a

784
00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:55.960
reward for information leading to war machines capture, and Christy

785
00:50:56.079 --> 00:50:59.679
releases her first statement since the attack on her social

786
00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:03.519
media And again, this is going to be hard to

787
00:51:03.599 --> 00:51:07.559
hear and it may trigger some listeners. But it stated.

788
00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:13.920
At about two am Friday morning, John Coppenhaveer arrived unannounced

789
00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:17.119
at my home in Las Vegas, Nevada. After he broke

790
00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:19.519
up with me in May. He moved out of my

791
00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:22.599
house and back to San Diego. When he arrived, he

792
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:26.920
found myself in one other fully clothed, an unarmed individual

793
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:30.000
in the house without a single word spoken. He beat

794
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:33.440
my friend. Once he was finished, he sent my friend

795
00:51:33.480 --> 00:51:36.440
away and turned his attention to me. He made me

796
00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:40.760
undress and shower in front of him, then dragged me

797
00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:45.480
out and beat my face. I have no recollection of

798
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:48.360
how many times I was hit. I just know my

799
00:51:48.559 --> 00:51:53.920
injuries resulted from my beating. My injuries include eighteen broken

800
00:51:54.039 --> 00:51:58.079
bones around my eyes. My nose is broken in two places.

801
00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:02.679
I'm missing teeth and several more broken. I am unable

802
00:52:02.719 --> 00:52:05.800
to chew or see out of my left eye. My

803
00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:09.320
speech is slurred from my swelling and my lack of teeth.

804
00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:13.719
I have a fractured rib and a severely ruptured liver

805
00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:17.519
from a kick to my side. My leg is so

806
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:20.440
badly injured I have not been able to walk on

807
00:52:20.599 --> 00:52:24.559
my own. I obtained several lesions from a knife he

808
00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:27.800
got from my kitchen. He pushed the knife into me

809
00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:31.719
in some areas such as my hand, ear, and my head.

810
00:52:33.199 --> 00:52:35.960
He also saw much of my hair off with a

811
00:52:36.039 --> 00:52:40.119
dull knife. After some time, the knife broke off of

812
00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:43.440
the handle and he continued to threaten me with the blade.

813
00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:47.400
I believed I was going to die. He has beatn

814
00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:51.679
me many times before, but never this badly. He took

815
00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:54.280
my phone and canceled all of my plans for the

816
00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:57.000
following week to make sure no one will worry about

817
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:00.199
my whereabouts. He told me he was going to raise me,

818
00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:04.199
but was disappointed at himself when he could not get hard.

819
00:53:05.320 --> 00:53:08.199
After another hit or two, he left me on the floor,

820
00:53:08.320 --> 00:53:12.320
bleeding and shaking, holding my side from pain in my ribs.

821
00:53:12.840 --> 00:53:15.159
He left the room and went to the kitchen, where

822
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:19.159
I could hear him ruffling through my kitchen drawers, assuming

823
00:53:19.199 --> 00:53:22.039
he was finding a sharper, more stable knife to end

824
00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:24.800
my life. I ran out of my back door, shutting

825
00:53:24.880 --> 00:53:28.000
it behind me so the dogs didn't run inside to

826
00:53:28.119 --> 00:53:30.880
tip him off. I hopped the fence to the golf

827
00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:33.880
course behind my house and ran into a neighboring house.

828
00:53:34.719 --> 00:53:37.360
Naked and afraid he would catch me. I kept running

829
00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:41.119
through the neighborhood, knocking on doors. Finally one answered and

830
00:53:41.199 --> 00:53:44.119
I was brought to the hospital and treated for my injuries.

831
00:53:44.519 --> 00:53:47.079
I would like to thank everyone for their support through

832
00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:50.280
this rough time. I'm healing fast and well, and I

833
00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:53.519
appreciate all the prayers and visits I have received over

834
00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:56.920
the past few days. After many months of fear and

835
00:53:57.079 --> 00:53:59.760
pressure to keep this man happy, although I fear for

836
00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:02.960
my life, I feel I can no longer put myself

837
00:54:03.039 --> 00:54:06.519
in this situation. Be cheating by him nearly every day

838
00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:10.559
and almost weekly abuse is now more than I can stand.

839
00:54:11.239 --> 00:54:13.719
There's a ten thousand dollars reward for the capture of

840
00:54:13.800 --> 00:54:17.599
Jonathan Coppenham at this time, please report to your local police.

841
00:54:18.800 --> 00:54:23.880
Thank you, Christy mack So. As always, in this case,

842
00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:29.039
you can run, but you can't hide. The war Machine

843
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:33.239
is no exception. After nearly eight days on the run,

844
00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:38.480
he is tracked down to an extended Stay America hotel

845
00:54:38.679 --> 00:54:42.960
in Semi Valley. US Marshals they bust open the door.

846
00:54:43.119 --> 00:54:49.679
There's war machine waiting for them in a fighting stance.

847
00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:56.679
Now the US Marshals, They're like fuck that. They ain't

848
00:54:56.760 --> 00:54:59.719
out a taser and they tase the piss out of him,

849
00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:03.760
and they take him into custody and in the hotel

850
00:55:03.840 --> 00:55:08.679
room they find a small amount of cash in pizza. Now,

851
00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:11.880
he was found in his hometown, just a few miles

852
00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:15.000
from his home, and true to his word, Dog the

853
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:18.840
Bounty Hunter was right on his trail, having just searched

854
00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:23.559
War Machines home prior to his capture. And this all

855
00:55:23.719 --> 00:55:27.159
took place at two o'clock in the afternoon that day,

856
00:55:27.519 --> 00:55:32.079
so everyone in Simi Valley, where war Machine was from,

857
00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:34.760
saw it all go down. As a matter of fact,

858
00:55:34.840 --> 00:55:39.679
here's a clip from the local ABC affiliate following War

859
00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:41.159
Machines capture.

860
00:55:41.679 --> 00:55:44.280
All right, this is a brand new jailhouse photo of

861
00:55:44.360 --> 00:55:47.519
the San Diego Mma fighter known as war Machine. The

862
00:55:47.639 --> 00:55:50.280
man hunter to find him ended this afternoon when he

863
00:55:50.440 --> 00:55:53.679
was tased and arrested in Simi Valley. Ten News reporter

864
00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:56.840
stepe Arena is live downtown and Steve, you talked to

865
00:55:56.920 --> 00:56:00.400
War Machines neighbors who saw Dog the Bounty Hunter waiting

866
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:01.119
his apartment.

867
00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:07.079
War Machine works out at this gym here undisputed lives

868
00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:09.159
just around the corner about a half a block and

869
00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:12.440
he's recognized. But it was when Dog the Bounty Hunter

870
00:56:12.519 --> 00:56:15.239
showed up. That's when the neighbors all got revved up.

871
00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:19.800
US Marshall's arrested war Machine and Simi Valley for the

872
00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:22.480
reported beating a week ago in Las Vegas of his

873
00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:24.840
ex girlfriend, porn star Christy Mack.

874
00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:27.119
They opened the door and then they were like, police

875
00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:27.840
open the door.

876
00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:29.760
You heard the taser come out, and it was like,

877
00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:32.559
I was like, oh my god, we gotta get out here.

878
00:56:33.440 --> 00:56:34.119
It was crazy.

879
00:56:34.519 --> 00:56:37.480
Soon their prey was in handcuffs. The search for the

880
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:41.360
mixed martial arts fighter included San Diego, with TV's Dog

881
00:56:41.519 --> 00:56:45.239
the Bounty Hunter on his trail. Neighbors seemed almost thrilled.

882
00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:47.559
And Dog the Bounty Hunter was parked over here at Puptown.

883
00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:50.639
They were making phone calls and they were talking about

884
00:56:50.679 --> 00:56:52.440
I believe now I know they were going after a

885
00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:53.480
war Machine.

886
00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:55.639
And I see the Dog the Bounty Hunter and I'm like,

887
00:56:55.760 --> 00:56:57.239
whoa man, Like what is he here?

888
00:56:57.360 --> 00:56:57.519
You know?

889
00:56:57.599 --> 00:57:00.639
And then I see them go inside bring all this stuff,

890
00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:03.360
and it was just it was loud, you know, but

891
00:57:03.440 --> 00:57:04.280
it was actually caught at the.

892
00:57:04.280 --> 00:57:06.320
Same time because the dog Bunty Hunter was here. This

893
00:57:06.440 --> 00:57:09.679
surveillance video helped convict war Machine after a twenty ten

894
00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:13.559
brawl at Thrusters Lounge in Pacific Beach, hauled away then

895
00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:16.239
with a bag over his head because he had been spitting.

896
00:57:16.880 --> 00:57:19.519
He was sentenced to a year in prison. Removed from

897
00:57:19.559 --> 00:57:23.760
his apartment Thursday. Two snake cages containing an Eastern Indigo

898
00:57:23.880 --> 00:57:28.360
snake and a rear fanged muscarana slightly venomous but legal.

899
00:57:28.840 --> 00:57:33.119
County Animal Services has custody now over at undisputed, where

900
00:57:33.119 --> 00:57:35.199
a war Machine has been training for the past year

901
00:57:35.239 --> 00:57:35.639
and a half.

902
00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:37.719
As of what I heard right now, it's heartbreaking. You

903
00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:39.960
like him, love the kid. I love him. He knows

904
00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:40.719
that all my fighters.

905
00:57:41.039 --> 00:57:42.719
Why I work with you, You get a bond with them,

906
00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:46.039
You grow a bomb, you spend you spend more time

907
00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:47.239
with these guys, with your families.

908
00:57:50.199 --> 00:57:52.960
War Machine spending time in jail Right now, his next

909
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:56.239
step will be in court extradition proceedings back to Nevada

910
00:57:57.079 --> 00:57:58.840
Live Downtown Steve Fiorina ten.

911
00:57:59.480 --> 00:58:03.079
He was in extradited, and the shocking thing to me

912
00:58:03.360 --> 00:58:07.960
is that after his arrest, the amount of people that

913
00:58:08.239 --> 00:58:14.800
came out in support of this piece of shit was insane.

914
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:21.320
Using the hashtag free war Machine, supporters took to Twitter

915
00:58:21.559 --> 00:58:24.320
to proclaim support for him, as well as to harass

916
00:58:24.440 --> 00:58:28.280
Christy in the process. They posted crude photos of her,

917
00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:32.480
include photo shop photos of her bloodied and bruised face

918
00:58:32.719 --> 00:58:36.760
on top of one of her nude photos. They questioned

919
00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:40.559
the severity of her injuries after one supporter had posted

920
00:58:40.599 --> 00:58:43.119
a picture of her while she was out getting ice

921
00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:46.880
cream with a friend. Weeks after the incident, Christy even

922
00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:50.159
told reporters that she may not ever be able to

923
00:58:50.239 --> 00:58:53.280
live in her home again. After war Machine supporters posted

924
00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:58.880
photos of her home online. She said she was fearful

925
00:58:59.119 --> 00:59:01.039
for her safety and understandably so.

926
00:59:03.400 --> 00:59:03.440
So.

927
00:59:03.639 --> 00:59:07.360
In September of twenty fourteen, war Machine pleaded not guilty

928
00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:13.599
to thirty thirty two felony charges, including two counts of

929
00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:17.920
attempted murder. And next week, I'm going to bring you

930
00:59:18.199 --> 00:59:21.920
inside that courtroom and the testimony, and we're going to

931
00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:25.360
start it with Corey Thomas next week. What kept him

932
00:59:25.360 --> 00:59:29.119
from calling police, The testimony of Christy Mack's mother, what

933
00:59:29.360 --> 00:59:33.360
warning signs did she see that Christy didn't, And even

934
00:59:33.400 --> 00:59:36.519
the testimony of Christy Mack herself as she gives a

935
00:59:36.800 --> 00:59:39.400
second by second account of what she went through in

936
00:59:39.480 --> 00:59:42.760
those two hours. The war machine nearly beat her to

937
00:59:42.920 --> 00:59:50.320
death at her home. It's unbelievable. Remember to follow us

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