It's kinda saying I feel bad for him, but at the same time I'm acknowledging that he has the potential to be a big problem. It's sad cause most people get into MMA to build confidence and then find support in those they train with. I feel like people have tried to help this dude a million times but he just won't listen.
You can just see here how good of a coach Mat Serra is. He’s patient, he always sees the fight at a bigger picture, and he’s compassionate and upright at the same time.
The writing was on the wall. He is exact reason why the martial arts stress the importance of discipline. A person with absolutely no discipline, led by emotions and fighting skill is a dangerous individual to be around.
Yeah no kidding, it's like he wasn't even trying to listen, I know he's a little more than a little slow but it's more of a deliberate effort, he's like an aggressive dog without a leash.
just goes to show you can have all the knowledge you want but practicing is another thing entirely. That or he used the knowledge to break down his fighters or to control. I don't know but it seems that the fighters were never actually solving their problems with him only masking
In the Documentary they did on War Machine, he flips out because the 7 eleven clerk denies him a slurppee. He goes back and threatens to beat the clerk up if he doesn't get his slurppee. Check out the Documentary on UA-cam, Jim can't swim is the channel .
Yea, he went on a mega steroid rage in a video about a woman not serving him a slurpee because he was wearing a hoodie. It was shortly before the Christy Mack incident.
She did see it in time. She tried to leave him, and did actually leave him for like 4 months before he showed up unannounced at her house. That was when he almost killed her.
@@downfromthereeefters women always know what kind of guy they're dealing with. They just deny and ignore it when their cooch gets wet and excited. Hence the whole "Why don't you change" complaint they have.
Doing those two year in jail and a lot of that in solitary really made him worse. He came out and was just off the rails. Here, he's still has that young man look. Those two years took a toll on him.
Yeah, I have to agree. Putting a man in solitary confinement for that long, then immediately back out on the streets, particularly for someone like Koppenhaver who was never a pillar of good mental health... Recipe for disaster.
That’s as inhumane as it gets man. You treat people like animals that’s what they become. I’m not excusing the guy, but you have to wonder if War Machine actually got the help he needed whether everyone involved in that nightmare would have been better off.
@@mirzaghalib8659 that’s absolutely not true. In fact, that’s a fucked up way of looking at the world. Do you know how many people are in prison for minor drug offences? You think someone who sells a little weed to make some extra money and gets busted is “beyond help”? Anyway, if prison is not designed to change someone’s behaviour then why do we ever let them out? In your world, if someone is beyond yep just because they landed in the can, then shouldn’t they all be locked away forever so the rest of us can be safe? The reality is rehabilitation is absolutely one purpose of having prisons; hell google the department of corrections website. Ideally, you want someone who comes out of prison to be less of a danger to the community, not more. These are some dumb ass ideas my friend.
I was real young when I met Matt serra at renzo Gracie's school. He's not changed, what you see is what you get. He talks to you like he's known you forever. He's a good guy and I was glad that he went on to be successful. Ricardo Almeida too. Used me as a mat dummy. Haha good times.
@@tomsawyer7429 I was in a bad car wreck in 2001 and broke my right pelvis. Any thoughts of fighting professionally were gone. But I still find time to train, modified it for me. And teach beginners the basic and my favorite...leg locks.
I remember in that season of TUF kopenhaver talking about his parents.. father wasn’t in the picture.. it’s sad because things could have been different if he had love and guidance from a strong male role model but it was far too late at this point.
When Koppenhaver was young, his father was a cop in Las Vegas and he passed away at home, when Koppenhaver was still a kid. Mother had drug and financial problems and different boyfriends, so there was some kind of negligence. That's what I remember from the season.
@@Schreibtisch1 yeh been years since I saw that season of TUF and I just remember when it was his episode to fight he talked about it.. it was depressing stuff and you could tell it was unresolved.
I've met kids like Warmachine it can go really bad if they aren't seeing a psychologist. I was trying to coach this kid, little Johnny and he was completely uncoachable. He had a lot of potential because he was incredibly athletic and stood out from the other kids. But his dad was in prison and his mom was strung out on that H, the black gold, that Chiva. The kid bounced around from relatives home to relatives home. He thought everyone that was nice to him wanted to take advantage of him. He thought everyone was out to get him. He obviously wasn't a bad kid, wasn't a psychopath he didn't mean to do bad but in his mind because of his experiences he thought people were trying to get him and the only way he was going to have something is if the stole it or won it. I lost contact with little Johnny and everytime I see a story like Warmachine I think of little Johnny and where he is.
@@cpilfold420 it sucks man. thats why i try not to judge and instead have empathy. you never know what has happened to a person. anyone would end up like warmachine if they had lived his life
@anonymous He basically held her and some dude she was fucking prisoner and beat the shit out of both of them. I think he broke like 18 bones in her body, ruptured her liver and knocked out a bunch of her teeth. She took off when he went to go look for a knife to finish her off. Also there was a "sexual assault with a weapon" charge, so let your imagination run with that one.
Serra was an underrated coach in the series. Dude was patient, knowledgeable and overall his team did well until they couldn’t figure out Danzig and Speer.
@Daniel Michael he obviously meant that war machine hadn’t committed those atrocities at the time so there was no reason to think he was a bad guy. Like could you not kinda read between the lines and figure out what he meant?
that "smile" is what it looks like if you try to teach someone who's never smiled before how to smile. He's just repeating what he thinks people want to see. It's a scary look. He only really smiles with the lips but not with the cheeks or eyes.
I knew Jon and trained with him in Vegas. He was extremely strong and a good athlete, but he had some serious self esteem issues, and they gave him anxiety and a lot of paranoia. He had an extremely traumatic childhood, and I think a lot of his issues started there. He was always very reflective after he made mistakes, but he wouldn't accept advice from anyone prior to making them. It sucks how things turned out for him, I wish he would have surrounded himself with better people, because he needed it.
Man, it's too bad. I was a fan of his too after that WAR he had with Jared Rollins. It was also his submission loss to Yoshida that turned some of my friends onto MMA, as I showed them that slick ass Anaconda choke when we were chilling out smoking bud. It was the one of the first submission I showed them and it blew their minds. They watched MMA/UFC with me after that point.
This reminds me a bit of a kid I knew in middle school. I didn't know much about him, & I guess few people did, but he was way tougher than average, with an almost adult outlook and build at age 12 or 13, and a totally rebellious streak. He did not want to be in school, at all. The restrictions and rules were too much for him and he ended up fighting a teacher. Never saw him again... Tried looking him up the other day, but his name was too common. I get the feeling he's no longer alive. I think our system fails some people.
The system? He was either raised like shit, barely raised, had abusive/ neglectful parents, had some emotional issues, or all of the above. The system isn’t meant to raise or help people, it’s to avoid chaos. When someone decides to do something dumb like fight a superior, they go to jail. You can only help yourself at that point.
@@latinobandido7471 But what if there had been a path for him? or a place where his bold and freedom-loving mind-set would have been an admired asset? By putting a straight-jacket on him, almost literally, they forced him to try to conform to a situation where he was bound to fail miserably and be viewed as a dummy, when in some ways he was actually ahead of us all. It seems like such a waste.
@@polarvortex3294 I wish what you described was feasibly real, but it’s not. When our parents fail us, many times, it is the core of most outward aggression which leads to anti authoritarian behavior and usually, criminality. Personally I hate the system around us; it tries to force us to conform to a rat race. But I was lucky to have good parents who basically raised me to understand, follow the pre-set path for a bit, and then set yourself up to step out of the rat race. The only freedom comes from money. If you can build yourself a nest egg, you can buy time. With time, you can foster your passions. Or, go on welfare, take government housing, and work your ass off at what you love. Or say fuck it, act a fool out of anger, and eventually, get clinked up. All 3 come with a cost and sacrifice. The first comes with the sacrifice of gritting your teeth and eating shit around narcissists. The second comes with more social danger. The third comes with the loss of freedom. They all have costs. Life is hard for all of us and I’m sorry your peer caught the shit end of the existence lotto. It pains me when I see kids without love, because it’s not their fault they are angry, but eventually, you either take control of your life, or die a lonely existence. Life is hard.
This guy was a knob with me at The Citadel. I remember him talking all cocky and crazy at the knobbie beach party. He seemed out of place because the rest of us were scared to death.
I worked with war machine for several years, he was a really good guy to be friends with but when he hit his angry point there was no turning him around... I watched him do some crazy shit and could do nothing but watch and plead lol I wish he had a better outcome because he actually was a nice guy... he was very good with his kids classes too... the kids genuinely liked Jon
@Super Aggressive UA-cam Commentary just one random incident was outside our gym, his younger brother came to visit him during a fight night and jon was all roided out at the time. Long story short his brother was rooting for the wrong guy fighting and job basically beat his ass in front of everyone and sent his ass home
@@jimreily7538 we trained under bare Yoshida for Jiu Jitsu. Gym was Undisputed fitness and training center in North Park, San diego , California as well as undisputed in downtown San diego
Imagine leaving Matt Serra speechless.
LOL
That takes skill !!!! 😂😂
Best comment haha
Was thinking the same thing lol
🤣
This is like a giant crystal ball into the future
Yep.
Too bad he couldn’t stop him before he nearly killed a girl
This shit is like the Star Wars prequel with Anakin
Fighters or ex fighters tend to be exceptional psychoanalyst
Fr
Seriously. Matt spotted it right away.
“Call me Mystic Matt because I predict deez tings”
🤣🤣👍👍
Golden brah
So good!
Predict deez nutz
@Martti Tanner how can someone predict something that's non-existent...? Martti "no nuts" Tanner.
Italians and Sicilians know what it means when they say “I don’t think he’s a bad guy,” that’s like open-air admittance that they are kinda crazy.
Yeah all of those times in Goodfellas where Paulie is addressing Tommy as a "good kid" really make you think.
It's kinda saying I feel bad for him, but at the same time I'm acknowledging that he has the potential to be a big problem.
It's sad cause most people get into MMA to build confidence and then find support in those they train with. I feel like people have tried to help this dude a million times but he just won't listen.
You're American. Matt is American. Get over it.
@@SeppukuDoll Okay, Paisan
@@SeppukuDoll Ethnicity isn't the same as nationality
You can just see here how good of a coach Mat Serra is. He’s patient, he always sees the fight at a bigger picture, and he’s compassionate and upright at the same time.
Joshua Fabia is better
@@ohno316 fabia is in the hall of fame of best coaches ever
@@anonymous-zw6ff
Oh really Gretel
Tell me some more
@@ohno316 fabia goes the extra distance, sexually
@@robertlangdon494 🤣
The writing was on the wall. He is exact reason why the martial arts stress the importance of discipline. A person with absolutely no discipline, led by emotions and fighting skill is a dangerous individual to be around.
Yeah no kidding, it's like he wasn't even trying to listen, I know he's a little more than a little slow but it's more of a deliberate effort, he's like an aggressive dog without a leash.
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering
@@hughesfarris6009 Thanks Master Yoda, lol.
@@hughesfarris6009 👍♥️
Im the same way and its caused me a lifetime of regret and suffering
Matt "Nostradamus" Serra . He was ahead of his time in his mental critique of war machine. And that was Matt being very polite.
Quasimodo predicted all of this
Foh.Anybody who watched him knew he was a fool lol.
@@thejawaiian9897 who?
@@Thor-Orion the sopranos
Even those he’s just a typical meathead... Not a big deal pointing that out.
"I'm my own worst enemy, man." Understatement of the fucking century, ladies and gentleman.
lmao
JC Wiggins?
Why what did he do?
@@chrishandsome4267 seriously?!?!
@@alexdoram7054 not surprising he didn’t know. Look at what the criminals in the WhiteHouse are doing. Look how many morons still support them..
"He's a little nutty."
That actually did age well.
I'd love to see this guy on GSP's team when they brought in that drunk Muay Thai coach from France.. That would've turned out amazing
Skarbowsky would've destroyed him
@@biohybrid_396 took the words out my mouth.
@@biohybrid_396 Woah ur so cool u know his name
@@Blernster eugh
That would have been so cool
“I don’t think he’s a bad guy”
That didn’t age well
C'mon, he was just trying to be diplomatic.
Hah! My thoughts exactly
I'm so over the that didn't age well thing. I agree but damn when is that going to die out?
@@davidfulcher1719
Yea that expression didn't age well
Dude this made me lmfao 😂😂😂😂
That’s not ADD, that’s the “thousand yard stare” of a sociopath.
As someone who has ADD, they are incredibly similar
He’s everything a sociopath isn’t though
People throw that word around a lot without really thinking about it. Was he a sociopath or a psychopath??
Don't answer without a PhD.
What is it then? Sociopathy? As compared to psychopathy?
Truth is professionals call it one thing "Antisocial Personality Disorder"
Matt tried SOOOOO hard to be polite here lmao love that guy
The documentary by JCS Criminal Psychology about his trial is v good if you have't seen it
All of JCS videos are really good.
@@johnbachmann7567 Facts
Honestly I think that's why we're all here
Just watched it. It was good
Matt was a great coach. He really knows how to communicate and he is excellent at figuring people out.
On the other hand other Matt(hughes) was giving out bibles to his students...
@@johnlineker2073 bibles are good!
He still is..
Weidman, Aljo, Merab, Iaquinta
@@BIGMIKESKNUTTS They’re pretty boring tbh. I’d prefer porn magazines.
'I don't think he's a bad guy'
Oh dear Matt
He wasn't a bad guy.
Ian P Tech headass
@@phoenixzappa7366 i hear hes a great guy when he isnt trying to beat women to death
@@phoenixzappa7366 whatever the dude was fooked in the head
@@GuyFromTheSouth at the time he wasn’t a bad guy
Tyson talked about how Cuss D'Amato had a library full of books on psychology.
The fight game is big time mental.
just goes to show you can have all the knowledge you want but practicing is another thing entirely. That or he used the knowledge to break down his fighters or to control. I don't know but it seems that the fighters were never actually solving their problems with him only masking
@@jonahi1304 yeah cus made amazing fighters not amazing humans.
90% of the game is half mental
Cus D'Amato
@@ShredCo , thank you.
Just don't deny him a slurpee..
What's the context behind this?
In the Documentary they did on War Machine, he flips out because the 7 eleven clerk denies him a slurppee. He goes back and threatens to beat the clerk up if he doesn't get his slurppee. Check out the Documentary on UA-cam, Jim can't swim is the channel .
Yea, he went on a mega steroid rage in a video about a woman not serving him a slurpee because he was wearing a hoodie. It was shortly before the Christy Mack incident.
or chalk at 24hour fitness....
😂
"Physically he's a problem for anybody"
But specifically women who can't fight back.
It was interesting to watch how docile he was around a man like Serra. Utter coward.
Well he beat the dogshit out of an untrained man and only let him live if he promised to not go to the cops.
@@sybo59 100 percent dude.
Absolute wimp.
Imagine how crazy he is in lock up
Or naked dudes getting that p sleeve
It's great to see how War machine has matured with age and become one of the Elite competitors in MMA and just an all around good guy。
underrated comment
@@cecilianagy3562 lmfao
Lmao
🤣🤣🤣
😳...🤣🤣🤣
Narrator " he was indeed a bad guy"
*the worst guy
(Not really, obviously people do worse, I just thought it was funny)
totally read that in Morgan Freeman's voice
Mannnnn this shit is so grimm and foreshadowed his whole life
He's his own worst enemy,he has plenty of time to mull that over.
@Lobo then he should be brought back into the ufc to fight whomever is the current heavyweight champion
@@joemfahey with no cup
Isn’t this they guy who is in jail for life cuz he almost killed his girlfriend?
No, it’s because of the Sokovia Accords.
Correct. Serious mental problems with this guy
Yup, Christy Mac
@@shogun678 RIP Christy Mac
@@wyattrussell7496 she survived lol
Matt genuinely tried with him
Matt Serra hindsight “Ahh, he is a bad guy.”
I feel like Serra tried to warn us all about War Machine a long time ago
"I don't think he's a bad guy."
@@RobD-jq7ry man, Serra tried his ass off to say that with confidence
Dumbest comment 😔
This has aged fantastically, unfortunately Christy Mack didn't see this in time
She did see it in time. She tried to leave him, and did actually leave him for like 4 months before he showed up unannounced at her house. That was when he almost killed her.
@@downfromthereeefters tragically, any man who can do that to a woman deserves to rot
@@downfromthereeefters women always know what kind of guy they're dealing with. They just deny and ignore it when their cooch gets wet and excited. Hence the whole "Why don't you change" complaint they have.
@@JohnDoe-pt7ru i don’t think you understand the psychology of abusive relationships.
For awhile, there, she didn't see anything at all.
I’ve trained with Matt Serra before. Very skilled and absolutely funny as hell. Hard to not learn from him
Unbelievable some guys are just blessed with so many gifts only to squander them selfishly.
" I uh, uh...... he's a nut'
- Perfect description from Matt Serra
Matt was more right than he could've imagined....
"Your honor, I'd now like to show you a clip from his former coach..."
Mad respect to Matt Serra... man called it out the way he saw him.
Doing those two year in jail and a lot of that in solitary really made him worse. He came out and was just off the rails. Here, he's still has that young man look. Those two years took a toll on him.
Yeah, I have to agree. Putting a man in solitary confinement for that long, then immediately back out on the streets, particularly for someone like Koppenhaver who was never a pillar of good mental health... Recipe for disaster.
That’s as inhumane as it gets man. You treat people like animals that’s what they become. I’m not excusing the guy, but you have to wonder if War Machine actually got the help he needed whether everyone involved in that nightmare would have been better off.
@@timblizzard4226 prison is not there to help you... if ya end up in prison , you are far, far from help
@@mirzaghalib8659 that’s absolutely not true. In fact, that’s a fucked up way of looking at the world. Do you know how many people are in prison for minor drug offences? You think someone who sells a little weed to make some extra money and gets busted is “beyond help”?
Anyway, if prison is not designed to change someone’s behaviour then why do we ever let them out? In your world, if someone is beyond yep just because they landed in the can, then shouldn’t they all be locked away forever so the rest of us can be safe? The reality is rehabilitation is absolutely one purpose of having prisons; hell google the department of corrections website. Ideally, you want someone who comes out of prison to be less of a danger to the community, not more.
These are some dumb ass ideas my friend.
Steroids doesn't help.
He called it back then, and look what War Machine did
You could always look at his eyes, and just tell only the simplest of things were going on behind them.
"there ya goo george! yer tearing him apaht!"
-matt "jroc" serra
We're not talking about just how therapeutic it is to listen to Matt coach fighters, it's like a breath of fresh air.
Serra's spidey instinct was screaming at him about this meatheaded momo...
It’s sad cause he had potential. Dude was just a ticking time bomb. Wish he saw a therapist early on or something
God Bless Matt Serra! Became a fan because of this show!
I wrote him a letter a year or two ago and to my surprise he actually wrote back lol
???
@@granitxhaka7261 War Machine
@@bksnazz what did you write to him
What did he say?
lies
Matt is an incredible coach. Him and Ray Longo, they seem so in tune with their fighters (along with being very technical in their advice).
I was real young when I met Matt serra at renzo Gracie's school. He's not changed, what you see is what you get. He talks to you like he's known you forever. He's a good guy and I was glad that he went on to be successful. Ricardo Almeida too. Used me as a mat dummy. Haha good times.
@@bobbyleglocks1992 that’s awesome to hear! I hope you are still training!
@Eddie LM damn, Tommy Speer is a name I haven’t heard in the while. That knockout to Rumble against the fence is forever etched in my memory.
@@tomsawyer7429 I was in a bad car wreck in 2001 and broke my right pelvis. Any thoughts of fighting professionally were gone. But I still find time to train, modified it for me. And teach beginners the basic and my favorite...leg locks.
I know what your saying is true but all I could think when reading your comment was "punch a hole in his f*cking chest".
this dude is deadass me when I play smash bros
Hi this is the most accurate comment to life I could ever relate too
@@PopPunkSkol yes
I remember in that season of TUF kopenhaver talking about his parents.. father wasn’t in the picture.. it’s sad because things could have been different if he had love and guidance from a strong male role model but it was far too late at this point.
When Koppenhaver was young, his father was a cop in Las Vegas and he passed away at home, when Koppenhaver was still a kid. Mother had drug and financial problems and different boyfriends, so there was some kind of negligence. That's what I remember from the season.
@@Schreibtisch1 yeh been years since I saw that season of TUF and I just remember when it was his episode to fight he talked about it.. it was depressing stuff and you could tell it was unresolved.
@@Schreibtisch1 not only did he witness his own father's death but he attempted to resuscitate him and failed.
@@ronnygibbon geesh.
“I don’t think war machines a bad guy”
- Matt Serra 🤣🤣🤣
Lmao that didn’t age well
It's just something you say before you insult someone haha he was being polite
It basically means you are thinking he's a bad guy if you say that lol
oppsss
At that point people had no idea don’t be dumb hah
When you're at that young age you think you know it all! I'm 49 and I thought that way when I was in my early twenties
I've met kids like Warmachine it can go really bad if they aren't seeing a psychologist. I was trying to coach this kid, little Johnny and he was completely uncoachable. He had a lot of potential because he was incredibly athletic and stood out from the other kids. But his dad was in prison and his mom was strung out on that H, the black gold, that Chiva. The kid bounced around from relatives home to relatives home. He thought everyone that was nice to him wanted to take advantage of him. He thought everyone was out to get him. He obviously wasn't a bad kid, wasn't a psychopath he didn't mean to do bad but in his mind because of his experiences he thought people were trying to get him and the only way he was going to have something is if the stole it or won it. I lost contact with little Johnny and everytime I see a story like Warmachine I think of little Johnny and where he is.
that sucks man sorry to hear that, maybe they'll pop up on the next TUF season, never know
Probably in jail
I feel this deeply and it's very sad
Unfortunately many of the people we view as bad who end up committing true evil start out similarly.
We had the same problem with Tiny Timmy in our gym. When he started smoking that Shanghai sally, it was Hasta la vista baby for tiny timmy. 😞
@@cpilfold420 it sucks man. thats why i try not to judge and instead have empathy. you never know what has happened to a person. anyone would end up like warmachine if they had lived his life
“Cuz you know he’s a little nutty”
What a horrible tragedy this guy's story ended up being. Fucking hell man how sad.
A true meathead.
"I don't think he's a bad guy." Man, you were sure wrong about that one.
I think Serra was just trying to be nice. Because everything else he said about War Machine was bad.
Ya dude listen to what he said haha
by saying that he totally meant he was a bad guy
@anonymous He basically held her and some dude she was fucking prisoner and beat the shit out of both of them. I think he broke like 18 bones in her body, ruptured her liver and knocked out a bunch of her teeth. She took off when he went to go look for a knife to finish her off. Also there was a "sexual assault with a weapon" charge, so let your imagination run with that one.
@anonymous pretty retarded comment but ok.
2:22 he did everything opposite 🤣
“You don’t have ADD do ya? Good.” 😂😂😂 Serra is a hilarious
Matt seems like a coach I should be training with
Matt Serra is a character. Love that guy.
"Do got ADD" 😅🤣😂😅🤣😂😅🤣😂
Matt Serra: He is a little nutty
Federal Judge: He is insane, 36 years to life.
I see signs of Narcissism, a major Personality Disorder. Inflated Ego makes him uncoachable.
Hindsight is always 20/20
Matt Serra is a phenomenal coach.
Matt Serra looks to be a reslly awesome coach. He definitely had jon figured out. Plus, the man is hilarious.
Wow.
Matt had him sussed from the jump.
"I don't think he's a bad guy "
Hold my beer
Serra was an underrated coach in the series. Dude was patient, knowledgeable and overall his team did well until they couldn’t figure out Danzig and Speer.
Matt Serra : I dont think he is a bad guy.......
Christy Mack : HE IS A BAD GUY !!!
I’m in tears laughing 🤣
Not to justify his actions buuut...don't cheat won't get beat.
@@scotthall7307 Lmao you said not to justify his actions and then tried to justify his actions
@@scotthall7307 they had stopped dating for months when he showed up at her house and almost killed her
@@scotthall7307 she's literally a p*rnstar what did he expect lol
When the headgear was over his eyes LOL !!
Hey the dude that beat Pierre! He's a freaking maniac 😃
He took beating his queen too another level😂
"calm down, calm down. Caaaalm down"
“I don’t think wars a bad guy”
Years later: 👁 👁
👃
👄
He wasn't a bad guy.
Ian P Tech I would hate to see what a bad guy is to you
@@phoenixzappa7366 If you get a chance, look up what Ken Shamrock has to say about Koppenhaver.
@Daniel Michael he obviously meant that war machine hadn’t committed those atrocities at the time so there was no reason to think he was a bad guy. Like could you not kinda read between the lines and figure out what he meant?
A shrink on staff!! Oh shit was that ever so rite years later huh! Tuff luck raw dog
Matt serra is a great coach
Matt was so funny...as an ex-Long Islander he really reminds me of my old home
Matt Serra is a great coach, kudos to him.
Fight is going to be easy compared to this... that's why we're doing it!
Golden 💪👊
Fun fact: the characters on War Machine's back spell "I am a rapist" in Japanese!
Matt Serra: "Just call me mystic Mac, cause I predict these things"
Nobody on here would like to admit how relatable War was when he said its me vs myself but I can
A good coach knows what a guy needs to work on and then they work on it. He tried, man. You can't say that Matt didn't try.
I've gotta say I have never known a guy with that big teeth smirk mouth thing that wasn't a bit messed
Wow dude... I never noticed it till you said it. So true, good insight!
Micheal B jordan
@@zakgt500 but what do we really know about Michael?.....
that "smile" is what it looks like if you try to teach someone who's never smiled before how to smile. He's just repeating what he thinks people want to see. It's a scary look. He only really smiles with the lips but not with the cheeks or eyes.
Shit.
You're right
I knew Jon and trained with him in Vegas. He was extremely strong and a good athlete, but he had some serious self esteem issues, and they gave him anxiety and a lot of paranoia. He had an extremely traumatic childhood, and I think a lot of his issues started there.
He was always very reflective after he made mistakes, but he wouldn't accept advice from anyone prior to making them.
It sucks how things turned out for him, I wish he would have surrounded himself with better people, because he needed it.
Man, it's too bad. I was a fan of his too after that WAR he had with Jared Rollins. It was also his submission loss to Yoshida that turned some of my friends onto MMA, as I showed them that slick ass Anaconda choke when we were chilling out smoking bud. It was the one of the first submission I showed them and it blew their minds. They watched MMA/UFC with me after that point.
“I don’t think War Machine is a BAD guy.....”. Serra would go on to eat those words.
Along with 137 lbs of pasta
Unfortunately, he was an inmate that just hadn't gotten placed in our custody yet.
Aww bless him he seems lovely
This is what happens when a kid sees his dad die in his hands. Damaged for life
This reminds me a bit of a kid I knew in middle school. I didn't know much about him, & I guess few people did, but he was way tougher than average, with an almost adult outlook and build at age 12 or 13, and a totally rebellious streak. He did not want to be in school, at all. The restrictions and rules were too much for him and he ended up fighting a teacher. Never saw him again... Tried looking him up the other day, but his name was too common. I get the feeling he's no longer alive. I think our system fails some people.
No I'm still alive I actually started my own boxing club after I got out of jail serving a 10 prison sentence
The system? He was either raised like shit, barely raised, had abusive/ neglectful parents, had some emotional issues, or all of the above. The system isn’t meant to raise or help people, it’s to avoid chaos. When someone decides to do something dumb like fight a superior, they go to jail. You can only help yourself at that point.
@@latinobandido7471 But what if there had been a path for him? or a place where his bold and freedom-loving mind-set would have been an admired asset? By putting a straight-jacket on him, almost literally, they forced him to try to conform to a situation where he was bound to fail miserably and be viewed as a dummy, when in some ways he was actually ahead of us all. It seems like such a waste.
@@polarvortex3294 I wish what you described was feasibly real, but it’s not. When our parents fail us, many times, it is the core of most outward aggression which leads to anti authoritarian behavior and usually, criminality. Personally I hate the system around us; it tries to force us to conform to a rat race. But I was lucky to have good parents who basically raised me to understand, follow the pre-set path for a bit, and then set yourself up to step out of the rat race. The only freedom comes from money. If you can build yourself a nest egg, you can buy time. With time, you can foster your passions. Or, go on welfare, take government housing, and work your ass off at what you love. Or say fuck it, act a fool out of anger, and eventually, get clinked up. All 3 come with a cost and sacrifice. The first comes with the sacrifice of gritting your teeth and eating shit around narcissists. The second comes with more social danger. The third comes with the loss of freedom. They all have costs. Life is hard for all of us and I’m sorry your peer caught the shit end of the existence lotto. It pains me when I see kids without love, because it’s not their fault they are angry, but eventually, you either take control of your life, or die a lonely existence. Life is hard.
He beat the shit out of his girlfriend and threatened to kill her multiple times. Y’all need to stop making excuses
He was showing all the warning signs.
This a learning lesson for young people out there if you have issues sort of out post haste ,sometimes it's not completely war machines fault
Seems like a nice fella, I wish him the best.
This guy was a knob with me at The Citadel. I remember him talking all cocky and crazy at the knobbie beach party. He seemed out of place because the rest of us were scared to death.
For someone who doesn’t understand the lingo. What is knobbie? And cocky is exactly what I would imagine from this guy.
@@RichardGarcia93 a knob is a 1st year (4th class) cadet at The Citadel… as a knob you are lower than dirt, essentially.
I worked with war machine for several years, he was a really good guy to be friends with but when he hit his angry point there was no turning him around... I watched him do some crazy shit and could do nothing but watch and plead lol
I wish he had a better outcome because he actually was a nice guy... he was very good with his kids classes too... the kids genuinely liked Jon
@Super Aggressive UA-cam Commentary just one random incident was outside our gym, his younger brother came to visit him during a fight night and jon was all roided out at the time.
Long story short his brother was rooting for the wrong guy fighting and job basically beat his ass in front of everyone and sent his ass home
They say psychopaths only like kids and animals. Seriously.
Which gym was this at ? What was he training at that time ? Does he have a black belt in BJJ ?
@@jimreily7538 we trained under bare Yoshida for Jiu Jitsu. Gym was Undisputed fitness and training center in North Park, San diego , California as well as undisputed in downtown San diego
@@jimreily7538 I believe he was a brown belt , not sure if he made it all the way to black belt as his legal problems really hindered him
Man that loss for words at the beginning of the clip is always hilarious 😂😂😂 and to end it with “what a nut “ hahahaha comedy gold
Serra is so much fun to listen to. New Jersey/New York/Long Island talk.
Matt is legend
Now he's playing hide-the-salami in the State Penitentiary
I don’t know, for 1 he’s a celebrity so he’s prob not in gen pop, also who’s gonna try to fuck with him without like 4 guys with them?
Thanks for posting
Matt knew what he was talking about