“SO in case you didn’t notice in my last fight the UFC did NOT use my nickname when I fought. Turns out some gay ass wrestling federation threatened to sue them because they recently named one of their wrestlers The War Machine Rhino and trademarked the name. Too f*ckin’ bad that I have been using this name for 6 years, have it tatted on my body and it is what my fans yell out when I’m fighting. If you know my personality then you know damn well I am not gonna let some faggot ass, FAKE wrestler steal MY name. SO 6 weeks ago I filed a change of name request and today I had court to make my name officially WAR MACHINE. lol. F*ckin’ funny right? Didn’t really wanna have to do it but I am sure as hell not lose MY nickname.”
– Former contestant on season six of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) and current UFC fighter, Jon Koppenhaver, has legally changed his real name to his nickname, “War Machine.” It’s apparently legit. TNA is the professional wrestling entity that has trademarked that name for one of its stars simple known as, “Rhino.” Koppenhaver, er, War Machine, must really, really, like his nickname.
August 28th, 2008
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Well, that’s one way to beat the system I guess.
That is some crazy shit.
Damn, to be young, dumb and full of cum…
LOL, that is funny. In Brazil they wouldn’t allow anyone to register their names into something like that, hilarious!
COO COO….COO COO…..COO COO
linx - They’re just words. If such a law exists in Brazil, seems very silly to me. What if some arbitrary-sounding term in Portuguese means something substantive in another language? In the U.S., we have very many hereditary last names that descend from slaves who’d named themselves according to their former bondage (know a guy who’s last name is Locket, for example, and the meaning of his last name is as simple as it is obvious).
MMACrossfire, the law is against someone registering their names to such things as “war machine” in portuguese, not english. We have too many loyal football fans that used to name their kids after their favorite teams, this is when the new law was placed (and rightfully so IMO, can you imagine someone called cowboys or bulls). We also used to have weird rural ppl that used to name their kids after groceries (I’m not joking LOL). In any case, once someone registers their names in Brazil, the name is reviewed by a judge, and if the judge thinks the name is not allowed he’ll send it to a higher court. Only then will they be asked to choose a different name.
linx, which grocery would they name their child after? Parmalat? Dolce de leite? Sonhos??? rsrsrs
Point break qote!!! LOVE IT!!!
You got it!!!
i’m not a big wrestling fan but i know that the wrestler rhino has had that nickname for longer than 6 years. i think koppenhaver probably heard it used for rhino when he was a teenager and liked and started using it. besides, has koppenhaver ever served in the military??? has he ever been on a battlefield??? has he ever seen REAL WAR?! until he has been there leave the war nicknames and grenade tattoos to someone who knows what they’re really all about!!! he’s a phony a** punk
yea deuce he was at the citadel a military school for two years …. so he wasnt on the battlefield but he did make an attempt by going to the citadel which is a bad ass school, but he got the nickname from phil baroni
no kidding. Rhino isn’t a pushover either. this is the guy that paid his dues in the OLD ECW, making peanuts wrestling in a bingo hall in philly getting put through tables, hit with chairs, cut with barb wire, etc. He’s a pretty nice guy and not some chump like war machine.
I don’t care how many fake tables he has been thrown through, I am gonna give more respect to someone who fights in a cage for less than half of what the “wrestler” makes for getting smacked in the head with a chair.
lol ahh the voice of ignorance
Maybe I am ignorant as to what is going on in wrestling today, after all I did stop watching it when I became an adult.
lol,go back to the babalu thread from TWO DAYS AGO!! I posted this then. Man I’m good!
I posted this too. I 4got in which thread. I remember it was response to like violentmike though. hahaha
Im guessing he’ll never be married.
hahaha!!! mr and mrs machine.
He ain’t gonna get married ‘coz this war boy is stupid. I really didn’t like this dude ever since his TUF days.
he looks like he is sitting on one!
Can you say “Idiot”? I can.
That was kind of weak for the UFC to back down from a weak trademark. I know White has more serious things to deal with, but he pussed out on that one.
Also the wrestling federation should sue Jon not the UFC… right?
This guy has some serious mental issues; too bad he doesn’t have the talent to back the name :/
this is too funny. the guy is crazy, but if he likes his nickname that much, i can’t blame him/
not that big of a deal. He can always change it back when he is done fighting.
I agree guys’ I see it the same, no big deal and awfully funny… hope he’s getting his shit together.
Woah.. Jon went to the extreme on this one..I undersatnd his fustration and all.. but to legally change his name to “WAR MACHINE”.. I want to see the faces of Airport security when they look at his passport.
If this guy has kids .. Lil’Wars running around…
Phil: I am hearing that Tim Sylvia vs. Jerome LeBanner is being considered for Affliction 3 and they are also trying to sign Sergie Kharitonov which would be great because the winner of Barnett vs. Arlovski would get Fedor and the looser would get Sergie.
So Affliction 3 could feature:
Fedor vs. Barnett
Arlovski vs. Sergie
Sylvia vs. Lebanner
shamrock has been talking about snapping Fergie’s leg lol
To be real… I’m not that excited for Affliction 2.. with Affliction 3 and Fedor’s return.. with some block buster type match ups.. hopefully they can try to match there first show.
Affliction 2 does not have the alure as the 1st show but it still odes have some quality match ups. Arlovski vs. Barnett is a Fight that i have ALWAYS wanted to see. Rogerio vs. Matsyseko is a fight I never even thought of but its very intruiging. This will be a hard fought fight and I am curious to see the fight between the “polish Hammer” and lauzon’s lil brother.
I just dont want to see the LIndland fight. I still think that the card could possibly improve before the show actually takes place. If not then they are just ASKING to loose money!
True MMA Story.
hopefully he makes as a fighter cause it fight be difficult to get a real job with a name like that on a resume…lol
It was the best nickname in the sport.
He’d better carry on fighting, can you imagine him applying for a job.
“… and the next applicant sir is er Mr War-Machine”
WAY before he had it, it was name of a comic book character. Stark’s friend Jim something. Wonder if that’s where he got it from. God, why does my brain involuntarily save space for such useless drivel.
Tony stark, that is, Iron Man. Jim became War Machine when Stark was incapacitated for a while.
good comic book reference. hopefully marvel will sue the wrestler and not jon.lol!
Chef and BW-
James Rhodes is the name. War Machine is the other “Iron Man suit”.
Yes, I like comic books. Geek, I know. ;P
Thanks for the info OJR. lol. It’s been a while since I read it. And hey, no shame in comic books, I’ve made a pretty penny off of mine in the past!!
no shame at all, anderson silva says he likes to collect them too, if the spider does it so can we!
one thing i love about anderson silva….hes sucha freakin geek! lol and yet he is the baddest mofo in MMA right now….to be honest if we were in high school..id be picking on him and then not show up and a 10yr high school reunion.
LOL Santiago, but he’s been trainning since he was 9. He would still be able to kick our a$$es throught childhood!
LOL Santiago-
That’s why I took wrestling and boxing in High School! The jocks/popular kids wouldn’t mess with me even though I would read comic books at lunch w/ my geek bi-focals…
;P
graphic novels all the way. people dont realize how many movies today are based off of graphic novels ( basically acollection of comic book stories or just big a$$ comic book) 300, sin city, a history of violence, just to name a scant few.
I used to fight at lunch with my geek friends about what was better, sega genesis or super nintendo. There was nothing more dumb than that lol.
BW-
Agreed.
Linx - Super Nintendo all the way!!! except Mortal Kombat had no blood
SEGA! LOL.
Genesis does what ninten-dont
omg i haven’t heard that quote in forever.
Very Cool info CD, with comic book knowledge like that we might think you’re from Geekville.
It could’ve been cool… Fast Asleep fits better though.
No wait!!!
Mr. Sleepyhead, now that’s suitable!
After the Yoshida fight, he should change in to “The Snore Machine”.
Hahaha that’s a good one.
Yeah Yoshida certainly plugged out the war machine.
If he think he could beat any as good as Yoshida he’s even dumber than I thought.
I would like to see War Machine vs. Matt or Mike Brown (I forget what his 1st name is
Dead Bird in the Cereal Prank.. it’s F#%^Kd up..
http://www.jokeroo.com/funnyvideos/dead_bird_cereal_prank%20.html
Don’t try to diss a dude with a mic..
http://www.jokeroo.com/funnyvideos/kevin_smith_owns_fan.html
‘I can’t hear you dude but I can see your man tits from here’ LMAO!
=P… that part was mad funny..lol… You know that dude felt like a moron.
What an idiot…..
best nick names imo are
The axe murderer
The Pitbull
The Prodigy
Daddy
Best nicknames IMO…
The Russian Experiment/ Cyborg
The Prodigy
THe Polish Hammer
Axe Murderer
Shogun/ Ninja ( For being brothers and both fighter’s..)
Lil’evil
The California Kid
The Natural born Killer
IceMan
add the Fireball kid (Gomi)
“Kid” Yamamoto
even though I dont like Sherk, the musckle shark is cool
Texas Crazy Horse
Via cavalho (werdum)
“THe Count”
Rampage is awesome nickname
stun gun is kool too!
what no ken-flo or j-lau. im shocked!
Word up.. I think we just covered the top MMA nicknames in the game today.
Stun Gun.. hopefully does his thing agaisnt Matt Brown.. he IMO can be a top5 fighter one day in the UFC.. he has all the tools this guy.. He’s from Korea.. with a ground game as if he was from Sao Paulo.
My favorite..
“The Irish Hand Gernade”
BNF: YES..yes..yes ” The Irish Hand Gernade ” is on the list.
No Ravishing Red? The Athlete? Blueberry Muffin ( or whatever muffin that guy said)?
Maniacs: I have a TUF question??
Who out of the names below would win ESpy TUF Biggest loser award??
1. Noah
2. Gabe
3. Joe Scarola
4. ( TUF 5 Backyard scarp ).. I forget those dudes names..there on the list too.
5. Jeremy Stephens
It’s gotta be Scarola, right. With Gabe as a close second (colonic was classic).
My pick would be Scarola..that was bad.. Noah at least did some work in the house getting into the semi’s and what not.. till he needed to speak to his Girl of 6months.. cuz she taught he was cheating on her.. while in a house full of dudes ..for X amount of weeks…
Gabe.. oh Gabe.. he did it all to himself.. Gabe would be my 2nd runner up.
Jeremy.. ” The soon to be felon “.. if the story is true that he.. he did all that crazy shit.. he’s “7″.
sounds right to me
The PINK POUNDER!!! LOL - how could that one not be on the list???
I would have nominated Danny Abbadi, but he at least made it through the season without getting kicked out of the house. And the dudes from the backyard fight were Marlon Sims, and I think the other one was named Noah too. And don’t forget that Monstah Lobstah also got kicked out for instigating that little fracas.
You forgot “The Boogeyman”
b.w. : J-lau.. sounds like Jennifer Lopez.. I’m a Florian fan.. but his last name sounds better Ken-Flo..so unfortunitly.. these names didn’t make the cut.
the ” Boogeyman ” is cool.
Meyhem?
mayhem is a bad ass name … as is jason miller …they mesh well
I also like The Truth…
I think the Truth is one of the best! Why are you called that (to Vera)? his response, “Because the truth hurts.” Loved it.
You gotta love Vera. I can’t wait till he destroys Jardine and everyone loves him again. People have been hating lately.
BNF-
Agreed. I remember defending him in some threads like crazy.
Someone told me they would rather watch Goran than Vera.
Vera looked sluggish but he was in control of the fight.
Goran was getting his @ss handed to him vs. Wilson until that lucky punch.
I don’t think he will destroy Jardine but I do think he will come out with a solid decision win.
I just think Vera is due to KO someone and Jardine is not exactly known for is iron jaw. A highlight KO would pull everybody back into a Vera fan. I never left.
I don’t care for Goran. Wilson is one of my top 5 favorite fighters so he pissed me off. Wilson was working him, but gassed a little. The move down to 185 will be the best thing he has ever done. Now that Goran moved down too I would love to see a rematch. There would definatly be a different result.
CABBAGE is the best name ever. A newer better fighter should try re-using that name!
I dunno BNF, I like Wilson as well butr Goran is bad ass and should be a MONSTER at middleweight! I think Wilson should stay as far away from that Bad ass Croation as possible!
You will see… Leites will beat him. Goran got beatdown by Wilson. He didn’t impress me.
BNF-
Agreed.
Where did the “Rush” come from in George “Rush” St Pierre?
Is that a nickname, or actually part of his name?
just a nick name and it came from his early days in TKO, I think.
NOt in mma, but one of the best nicknames in Boxing was teh “Brockton Blockbuster”!
WE probably covered the best names let me think of a few more:
Cacharao (excuse my spelling I dont speak portugese)
Jacre
El NINO
Diabo Diaz
the predator
Now, Lets move on to the worst nicknames:
J-lau
Ken flow
worlds most dangerous man (what a load of bull lol)
The athlete
“Suga”
THe GOAT
anyone else got any terrible nicknames?
The king of rock and rumble???????????
Yeah, Ken-Flow just sounds more like bad pronunciation.
“Suga” is really bad though. Almost Porn like.
Some of these names remind me of the super hero auditions from the movie “Mystery Men”.
“Blue Raja”, “The Shoveler”. Actually, The shoveler would be a good nam for the Wash Machine..er..I mean “War machine”.
John, how could you forget…
“The Huntington Beach Bad Boy”
BNF-
I don’t know if that was a bad one. It seemed to mesh well. Maybe it was too long?
I actually like Tito and live in HB and I’m calling it a bad one. I guess calling youself a “Bad Boy” is kinda douchey, IMO. But, obviously, representing HB is ok with me.
it was cool for Tank because he was the original. It was pathetic for tito to try and swaggerJack an already exsisting UFC legends nickname!
Spider is a cool nick name it works for him too. The long limbs and all, and when he is attacking it looks like he’s got 8 limbs.
The Spider is a great name (especially since it fits Anderson so well as he’s so long and lean), but Da Sypda is a completely ridiculous nickname. Grove should be taken out behind the barn and shot for that one.
What about “the Heat” for Karo Thats a damn good one especially the way buffer emphasizes it
so when bruce buffer announces his name he will just say war machine?
lol…it’ll be
” and in this corner “War “War Machine” Machine”
or
War “John Koppenhaver” Machine
The War Machine formerly known as Jon Koppenhaver?
i nearly shit my pants when i read that
WAR WAR!!!!!! lol
He showed some potentail against J-Rod, but showed his inexpierence against Yoshiyuki. He needs to worry about stepping up his game and not what his moniker is. Because another showing like the last one and they’ll call him “Stepping Stone Machine !”
which name is better …..Scott “Hands of Steal” Smith or Sam “Hands of Stone” Stout. …..I always get them mixed up but personally i like Sam “Hands of Stone” stout.
To me it’s the same getting hit by steal or stone.. both will hurt.
ahahah hands of steal what does he do punch the lunch money outta ya? personally i like hands of stone more than hands of steel, however i like hands of steal way more than both
welll i would have to say hands of stone is better bc i think stout would beat up on scott smith
Actually, the great Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran was known as Hands of Stone.
Personally, IMO Sam has not KO’ed enough opponents in MMA to have that nickname.
He definitely has a chin made out of rock, though.
BTW-
I think its Steel, not Steal.
Yoshida destroyed The War Machine
I legally changed my name to NC-17 as well. Thanks War Machine for helping my dream come true.
Wow.. this dude is odd.
hahaha I thought it was a pretty smart way to beat the system. Suck it WWE!
So who has the coolest MMA name without a tag or nickname?
Quinton Jackson shure aint on the list.
I always thought “No Love” was a good, and even though we are so used to it but “Ice Man” is pretty solid aswell.
The Sand Man
I don’t train or fight, so I’m not “in the know” when it comes to getting a nickname, but are’nt you supposed to earn a nickname (not claiming War Machine did’nt). You know when someone else starts caling you that and it sticks kindof thing. I’m thinking some of these guys have thier nickname picked out long beore they ever enter a gym.
Truth.
I think Phil Baroni actually started calling him War Machine because he had all those tattoos because he was like a bio-tech major in college or something. I know he did train at the Lion’s Den. Kid is dumb. Who cares haha.
lol. Yeah, that sounds right. I can picture them trying to sleep at night, staring at the ceiling, thinking,”what about……no no no…that’s not cool enough….Maybe….No….maybe this will catch on……”
True. I should start buying websites adresses with a bunch of cool nicknames, so I can resell them to idiots like “Wash Machine” when they start making some cash.
iyiy…..jon should be trying to get another fight in the ufc sch. for an upcoming ppv or fight night instead of worrying about this,
im digging BABALU as a nickname haha
And here I thought Marvel Comics had it trademarked first as a name (see Iron Man).
This guy is a total douche. He is from the town where I went to school and this guy always thought he was a bad ass picking on kids half his size. I love watching this dirt bag get his ass beat in the cage. You used to think you were something, and now you are just War “Jon” Machine, or just War Machine, or Jon”The douche machine” machine, or whatever the f**k you want to be called. Here is a lesson for you, quit worrying about your fricken name and start worrying about training. DOUCHE!!!!!
If this is true… Post some stories, man. I can’t post for anyone else but I am very curious.
I was working all the time when i went to high school, but i remember one time in junior high when i actually put him in his place. It was a rainy day and i noticed this steaming pile of poo shoving one of my female friends underneath the stream of water that was pouring off of the roof. So i approached him and he was like “back off this is none of your business or whatever” so i quickly grabbed his ass by his collar and shoved his ass right into the lockers and down onto the soaked ground. Needless to say I got some after that ;). Also needless to say that this mofo was on steroids for all of his high school career from what i have heard, i have no proof of this it is just hearsay, but i remember he always had a fucked up attitude.
Now with all this said i would like to note that nowadays he would tear me limb from limb but i did have my moment to shine back in the day.
Good Story.
Nice.
KO by collar shove into the lockers. I would count that as a win…nice job!
You got some in junior high??? Or by “some” do you mean a little making out with an under-the-sweater but over-the-bra feel?
IhitU.uHITfloor-I have War Machine on my myspace. This article quote actually came from one his bulletins. War Machine said this ain’t true.:
ME: “Hey war. Is it true that a kid at your school pushed you on the ground into a puddle of water in the hall way when you were younger? A guy was claiming that you were pushing a girl under a leaking roof and then he did that. He said it on mmamania. com on a article that they had about you changing your name. Is it true?”
War Machine: LMAO! Hell no.
Just in case It was confusing. I meant that he said what you said wasn’t true. Not the article.
So I guess you thought the response was gonna be “oh yeah! I did get beat down in highschool because I was being an ass to a girl.I remember that”– true or not, only an idiot would admit it. Sheesh.
Notice how I didn’t say “OMG YOU ARE A LIAR! WAR MACHINE TOTALLY TOLD ME! YOU ARE A FRAUD!” I simply stated facts. The FACT that I asked him and the FACT that he said it wasn’t true. Don’t get so uptight.
PW- Actually the girl was in my drama class and later that day when we had class she took me behind the curtains and gave me a low blow, and it wasnt the kind that Kongo dishes out
RyanHobbs- Just a quick question for you…Would you admit this if you were an uptight prick? By the way it is also a FACT that the FACT he told you was a LIE.
To be honest i really dont give two shits about what War”Jon”Machine says, he has always had no credibility with me.
I couldn’t help thinking how funny that War Machine tattoo will look when he 60 or 70 yrs old. He should change it to Love Machine. lol
I was wondering why they didn’t use his nickname at UFC 84. Finally, some closure!
thank the lord! i can sleep again!
This guy just needs to go away. I really hope he follows through with moving to the Phillipines like he said.
1.Whats going to happen when his career is done?
2.Couldn’t he have just made his middle name War Machine?
3.I think Marvel comics beats him and Rhino with the War Machine name, circa 1979.
4.He has fans?
5.Shouldn’t he worry about not losing a fight instead of his nickname?
Valid questions.
WWE is probably already paying royalties to marvel, like they did back in the day for the rights to use “Hulk” in Hulk Hogan
if dude wants to call himself War Machine, go ahead and let him. thats funny as fock. lol. i can just hear the host calling his table at a fancy restaurant… “uhhhh.. reservation for Mr. Machine” HAHA!
What if he gets in trouble? They call out his name in the courtroom. War Machine vs. State of California.
ooOOoo nice 1 lol. and when he has kids he’s going to spawn little baby Machine prototypes.
Nano-machines
What a complete retard. Remember when Matt Serra was a t loss for words trying to describe him. Matt Serra couldn’t find words!!!! Somebody give this kid a hug before he loses the rest of his brain cells.
He’s mentally ill
its a rubbish nickname anyway
ha- pretty amazing- love this story.
craziness. babalu got his from his fav gum.
When I see people like War Machine on the street I say to my girlfriend “this, Michelle, is why democracy doesn’t always work.”
Hahahahahaha !!!!
fag this, faggot ass that ! ( me thinks he doth protest too much ) is he not the guy who cried on spike after he lost because he had no one to go home to … signed DTGG (dave the gay guy) PS @ JRandolph i heard GSP say his nickname is Rush as he likes to rush in and get the job done quick )
Dear War Machine,
Changing your name doesn’t make you any less of a punk or queer-looking SOB or make you any more of a wannabe tough-ass who can’t hack it in the UFC.
Regards,
I don’t need a nickname to be tough
All you need to be tough is your computer! LMAO!!!!
I doubt he got rid of the “Jon Koppenhaver” part of his name. By changing his name, it’s more likely that his added “War Machine” as his middle name, i.e. Jon War Machine Koppenhaver.
If he just added War Machine as his middle name, people will still say Jon Koppenhaver without saying War Machine in between…
This goof won’t stay with the UFC much longer.
Not true. The UFC would introduce him as the did previously — Jon “War Machine” Koppenhaver. The UFC loves selling the fighters nicknames. They only previously left it out before because of the legal issue.
Rhino is a homo.
Now he joins the ranks of the Ultimate Warrior who had his name changed to “Warrior” for trademark issues.
Rejoice, War Machine! You will now be in the boat of insanity that “Warrior” and “War Machine” built.
Jon Koppenhaver needs to be bludgeoned to a bloddy pulp and left in the gutter. F**K this guy
Who is Jon Koppenhaver? This article is about a man named War Machine.
Hate to break it to you Kopenhaver but rhino’s had that name longer than you’v had
this kids an absolute nutjob
f@&*ing idiot
Now that his real name is War Machine, he could trade mark Jon Koppenhaver as his nickname. Therefore he can still be called Jon Koppenhaver War Machine or vice versa.
WOW!! What a f-ing idiot!! Good luck getting a girl when she finds out you legally changed your name to “War Machine”. What a loser.
And here I thought he was just an iron man fan…
Marvel has War Machine as a charicter maybe they should sue TNA!
Nice loser comments about Even Tanner War Queen. I hope you get paralyzed in your next fight, if any org will even accept you.
D-Bag!