War Machine: "Porn is More Important Than MMA at the Moment. I Want to be One of the Top Porn Guys"

The fighter/porn actor formerly known as "Jon Koppenhaver" talked to MiddleEasy about a multitude of controversial topics. Here's War Machine talking about prioritizing his new career in porn over MMA:

My priority right now is to make good money and feed the War Machine. I've been fighting for seven years and MMA, I make a living but I don't make enough money to save. I'm never going to be able to have enough to buy a house or buy a cool car. Right now, my main priority is making money. I want to do my best in the porn industry and I want to try to be one of the top, top porn guys, you know what I mean? So right now, porn is more important than MMA at the moment. I love to fight and I'm always going to fight, regardless of what happens.

I was nervous as hell. More nervous than any other fight I've ever had. So nervous...terrified. It's no joke. It was crazy. Luckily when I got to the set, the crew were super cool they were MMA fans. The girl that I shot my first scene with, Riley Steele, she was really pretty and she was really nice. She made me feel comfortable. Porn is like fighting, you're always ready before but once you get punched...you're fine. When I touched her, I felt way better but until I made contact I felt nervous as hell... Before the scene, I really didn't know what to do. I thought 'should I shadowbox?'

Fighting and porn is so similar. Everything from like, I got the agent. I got Ken Pavia from MMAagents and Derek from Alex Drake models. They find me the fight, they find me the girls. You got organizations like UFC and WEC then you got the organizations like Digital Playground, it could be Vivid, Wicked, whatever. So in MMA I fight around, in porn...I hump around. Then you got the pre-fight jitters, same as being on the set. Performance anxiety...dude, it's very similar. I think fighting has helped me prepare for it. The producer was telling me 'Dude, I'll tell you right now you're going to fail. The first time everyone fails. Sometimes the first two or three times they all fail'. But I was able to succeed and I think it's mostly because my fighting stance really helps me...plus my whoring experience. I've been around and around and around. It's similar man, it's very similar.

In the porn, the money is very lucrative. I think from now on I'll be focusing on the porn. I'm still going to fight because that's my passion. I love to fight and I realized that I've probably blew my chances of ever going back to the UFC. But I can still main event all medium sized shows all across the country and the world. But I'm still going to fight, two or three times a year. That's what I love to do, I love beating people up, I want to fight, I want to train, I want to get better. I'm still going to be training.

The entire interview shows more of War Machine being War Machine. He says the UFC "Rapes" fighters by being not paying them well, Cris Cyborg takes testosterone, Brock Lesnar is a "big gay bully", and believe it or not, he was a smart student who all the teachers liked.