The former mixed martial arts fighter known as War Machine was sentenced Monday to 36 years to life in Nevada state prison for kidnapping, beating and sexually assaulting his porn actress ex-girlfriend and attacking her male friend at her Las Vegas home in 2014.
Jonathan Paul Koppenhaver will be eligible for parole in 36 years, when he will be 71 years old.
A jury convicted Koppenhaver, 35, in March. The jurors deadlocked on two attempted-murder counts but convicted him of 29 felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from attacks on Christy Mack and Corey Thomas.
Koppenhaver talked about his troubled past and referred to the late Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL player who committed suicide in a Massachusetts prison in April.
"I should have killed myself by now. There's no reason right now that I shouldn't be in the dirt right now laying next to Aaron Hernandez. That's 100 percent true," Koppenhaver said in his statement.
Mack, whose legal name is Christine Mackinday, fought through tears when she told District Judge Elissa Cadish on Monday that she still fears for her life if Koppenhaver were to leave prison.
"I do know when he gets out, he will kill me," she said.
MMA's War Machine sentenced 36 years to life
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War Machine sentenced to life in prison, eligible for parole in 36 years
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I remember that story. Hopefully he kills himself in prison so tax payers don't have to pay for him.
