A US court has heard of the sickening abuse Christy Mack suffered at the hands of "War Machine", culminating in the MMA fighter telling the porn star "This is it, I've got to kill you now" as she lay close to death on her bathroom floor.
Prosecutors allege that "War Machine", whose real name is Jonathan Koppenhaver, entered Christine Mackinday's home in the early hours of August 8, 2014, and subjected her boyfriend of two months, Corey Thomas, to a savage beating that lasted some 12 minutes.
Mackinday could be heard screaming "Jon, stop, you're going to kill him" in a 911 call played to the court. Koppenhaver allegedly bit Thomas on the face, broke his nose and put him in a chokehold before Thomas told him "you gotta kill me or you gotta let me go".
"I'm looking up at the ceiling thinking to myself, 'I'm going to die in Christy's bathroom,'" Thomas told the court. "That's not how I'm going out."
Koppenhaver proceeded to threaten Thomas "if he snitched" before letting him go.
But after Thomas left the house, Koppenhaver proceeded to bash Mackinday for more than two hours, leaving her with broken ribs, a fractured eye socket, a lacerated liver, two missing teeth and severe bruising.
A naked Mackinday, whose family and friends say she became isolated and distant during her relationship with Koppenhaver, managed to run to a neighbour's house for help while Koppenhaver disposed of a broken knife in the kitchen, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Koppenhaver, 35, had lashed out at Mackinday, 25, several times before they broke up, the court heard. The pair had met on the set of Hustler photoshoot but Koppenhaver had quickly "become disgusted" with Mackinday's profession, Chief Deputy District Attorney Jacqueline Bluth said.
Koppenhaver's lawyer, Jay Leiderman, painted the pair as "two damaged people" who routinely shared rape fantasies.
"Ultimately, the two of them were swallowed up by the personas they had created for themselves," Leiderman said, and added that the pair had said "I love you" in text messages an hour before the attack.
Koppenhaver, who has plead not guilty, is being tried on 34 counts, including attempted murder, kidnapping and sexual assault.
The trial continues.