A professional fighter accused of attacking his former girlfriend is now in custody after being arrested near Los Angeles.
Jonathan Koppenhaver, also known by the name "War Machine" for his time in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, was taken into custody at a hotel in the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley yesterday afternoon.
Horrific pictures showed the beating the porn star claims she suffered at the hands of her ex-boyfriend.
Adult film star Christy Mack alleges she and another person were attacked in her Las Vegas home by Koppenhaver.
She says the incident happened at 2am last Friday.
Mack, 23, wrote: "I have no recollection of how many times I was hit, I just know my injuries that resulted from my beating.
"My injuries include 18 broken bones around my eyes, my nose is broken in 2 places, I am missing teeth and several more are broken."
Mack managed to escape when her attacker went into the kitchen. She continued: "I ran out my back door, shutting it behind me so the dogs didn't run inside to tip him off.
"I hoped the fence to the golf course behind my house and ran to a neighboring house."
Mack has thanked well wishers for their support on her Twitter profile, which has 607,000 followers. A fundraising campaign has been set up to help pay for her medical bills.
Police have not identified the third person who was in Mack's home and also assaulted, but confirming they both sustained 'severe but non-life-threatening injures.'
The son of a police officer, Koppenhaver has had a varied career, including stints as an ultimate fighter and as a porn star himself. He and Mack posed nude when still a couple in the January issues of Hustler magazine.
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