UFC Corridor of Famer Matt Serra believes Jon ‘Warfare Machine’ Koppenhaver was a product of the corporate he determined to maintain throughout his life and profession.
Serra coached Koppenhaver and different up-and-coming fighters on The Final Fighter Season 6. Matt Hughes and Serra coached reverse one another forward of their scheduled struggle at UFC 79 in 2007.
Koppenhaver is serving a life sentence for home battery, rape, and different violent expenses stemming from a 2014 altercation with grownup movie actress Christy Mack. Mack and her then-boyfriend Corey Thomas had been badly injured after Koppenhaver broke into her Las Vegas dwelling.
Koppenhaver was on the run for a few week earlier than he was arrested in Simi Valley, California by U.S. Marshals. He was charged with a complete of 36 felony expenses.
Serra, who coached Koppenhaver on the present, just lately opened up on Koppenhaver’s self-destructive path.
Matt Serra seems again on relationship with Jon ‘Warfare Machine’ Koppenhaver
Throughout a latest episode of The Joe Rogan Expertise, Serra regarded again on Koppenhaver’s profession.
“ what’s unhappy? A digicam crew from Toronto got here down, they’re doing a factor known as ‘Darkish Facet of the Cage’, they usually needed to interview me about ‘Warfare Machine’,” Serra stated of Koppenhaver. “They got here out, and I did a factor for that, and it simply depressed me. It simply introduced me down. As a result of that was a child, when he was on the present, there’s some guys which are simply evil and different guys that if that they had the suitable individuals round them, they might’ve made completely different decisions. He was goofy, he had points, he was emotional, at all times thought the playing cards had been stacked in opposition to him sort of factor…
“However nonetheless, there was one thing likable about him on the present, Season 6 of The Final Fighter,” Serra continued. “He was a prankster, did an ‘Higher Decker’ in the bathroom, a foolish man. However I believed that if he had the suitable individuals round him, he clearly would’ve made lots higher decisions…’Warfare Machine’, the one man to point out up at his trial to be there for him, and once more you present me your mates, you present me who you’re. And it was Phil Baroni, and he was not an excellent man…it’s brutal, man. Phil I at all times knew was a chunk of s***, however ‘Warfare Machine’ I believed may’ve been helped. I actually do. What’s executed is completed, but it surely depresses me as a result of I believed there was some hope.”
Koppenhaver retired from MMA after a loss to Ron Keslar at Bellator 104. He faces the potential of parole in 2053.