Last August I reported that former Sean Cody porn star Danny is now an MMA figther.
Today, it’s reported on The Sword (and pretty much every MMA fighting news and blogs out there) that Danny or Dakota Cochrane (pronounced COCK-rane) has been cast in season 15 of reality series The Ultimate Fighter (also called TUF Live now), debuts March 9 on FX with a two-and-half-hour episode that features 16 elimination-round fights. The winners earn official cast-member status. I hope Danny makes the cut!
Dakata Cochrane aka Danny spoke with many news sources about his controversial porn past ‘It was a mistake‘
You guys might want to read what he told MMAFighting.com:
The 25-year-old Cochrane, who is not gay, says he earned around $80,000 overall from taping the videos, which he made while a college student at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, where he was an all-league track athlete as a pole vaulter and 4×100 meter relay runner.
“Every time I was down there, I hated it,” he said.
Finally, when he admitted to his girlfriend what he was doing, she asked him to stop, and the short-lived career was over.
Rylan Shaw, another former Sean Cody model, told his interviewer that he made $40,000 from making 9 videos. Dakata or Danny has done a dozen gay porn videos with Sean Cody. He’s a versatile, he both fucked and got fucked including memorable scenes like 5-Guy Orgy and a three-way with Billy and Parker. And he made $80,000 from those?
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paul says
he didn’t HATE it THAT much or he wouldn’t have done it..NOW just own it …and move on..I HATE PUSSIES..no pun intended.
b_894 says
He might of hated it, but many fans out there loved it. I guess there are worse scandals out there…
James says
He’s probably glad he got out before they started filming bareback.
J says
im sorry but i don’t belive he hated it it that much or he would have stoped , he loved the money enough to keep doing it if he really hated it he never would have done it , it was no mistake , he choose to do it and kept doign it that doesn ot spell mistake.
Darren says
Yeah, just think about how all those other MMA Fighters are enjoying fucking him now. They don’t like it when their hot boys are out and proud.
phil says
Now you are taking your cues from the vile Sword and its resident troll? Haven’t you people learned that outing pornstars can have devastating effects in their lives (Roman Ragazzi comes to mind).
cliff says
Everyone on the MMA side is downplaying this, but honestly the biggest reason he’s on the show is cause of the scandal. This story is all over the web and will be for the next couple of days. It’s more publicity than I’ve ever seen for UFC’s reality series.
He’s really owned this. I’ve checked a couple of articles. His girlfriend at the time is now his wife. They have 2 kids.
He was 20 at the time, now he’s 25. He was broke. Needed the money. A story you hear often.
I’m not mad at him. I’ll watch this weekend and I hope; suspect, he will will his bout. A win get’s him in the house. The storyline is too good and will make a whole lot of fans. Some will tune in to see him win, some will tune in to see him get his ass whooped. Either way UFC wins.
Speaking of win, who would have thought UFC would be the first to feature a gay for pay athlete? Kinda like Iowa and gay marriage.
M_M says
LOL. This is gonna be hilarious.
nikko says
I HATE it when bi/straight guys underhand their homosexual experiences. Fuck off.
michb says
P.S. But this reminds of what Devon Hunter had to say about working for SC. I thought he was slightly exaggerating but somehow if a dickhead like this emerges from this site Hunter cannot have been that wrong in what he had to say about working in gay-for-pay-heaven.
JackHAMMER says
Yeah he hated it down there butt LOVED the dick up his ASS !!!
Mason says
You know, I want to say this guy is a a pussy for not owning up and just admitting he did it without the ‘it was a mistake’, ‘I hated it’ stuff’. and I do think that, like many who do porn, he’s probably a bit of an attention whore. But after reading the full article on MMAFighting I have to say that he and his supports approached this part of his past honestly and was upfront about it with just about everyone. He has forever labeled himself as a ‘homo’ in many peoples eyes. So long as he is involved in professional fighting sports he will likely never be rid of his gay past, many who fight him will really want to beat him badly, just because of his past. Professional sports is a very homophobic environment and I have to give him his props for sticking with it and being honest.
Woohooboy says
“It was a mistake”
“Every time I was down there, I hated it”
Bitch please!. You certainly didn’t have a problem with the money you made from it. Long story short, NO ONE forced you into it and at the end of the day when all is said and done, you had a choice.
You didn’t have to do it. You would get sympathy or at least understanding if this was a situation where you had no alternative or you were pressured into it. But neither of those apply here. You got hard, fucked, came and were paid. Simple as that.
Oh and nice way to backhand gay fans of your work with those comments of yours. Now go “play hard” with those boys in the ring…..
timucua says
If he hated it so much why did he continue I guess monetary gratification was a greater appeal than personal integrity. But I read online on another blog where he explained his girlfriend at the time, now is wife, knew about his porn work but was fine with it (well the financial work was good). The naviety of some these people who think porn wont effect them in some way or another this is the cyberage age, and it stay in posterity.
Xando says
I don´t feel sorry for him. He wanted money and porn was fast and good-paid way, but not only one way. Nobody, neither life situation, forced him to do it. He chose his way.
Neal says
He gives straight men a BAD name! What a PUSSY. Sure he was college kid, blah, blah, blah. He could have been a MAN and said, “I did what I thought was right and made $80k to put myself through school, end of story.” Don’t even think about calling me faggot, bitch!
Gazzaq says
Who cares his hot and very very fit.
Lets hope all this publicity entices him back to Gay Porn as I loved his movies xxxxx
Drew says
I’m not judging him. Who knows what was going through his mind? He needed money, did gay porn to get it, and is now moving on with his life. There are other straight or somewhat bi gay porn models that have similar stories, so it seems likely. I think it is hypocritical to act as if you know what was going on with his life or in his head when all we did was get off to some videos of him.
timucua says
@ Drew no he took the quick and easy way to earn quite a lot cash. He only regrets it because he is being exposed makes somewhat of an hypocrite.
Drew says
@tumucua: I think he would only be a hypocrite if he said he loved it, and then went back and said he hated it. We don’t really have any evidence that he enjoyed what he was doing in the first place. We’ve seen other SC models look enthusiastic on-screen, like Rylan or Harley, or other popular gay porn models like Jeremy Building, and later on admit that they didn’t like it much. It seems to me that some people here are judging him harshly because they bought into an illusion that he enjoyed it and are upset that his being honest is disturbing their fantasy. Just me two cents.
anonymous says
When I was a Sean Cody member there were only 5 Danny videos to download. He is one of m all time favorites. Surely SC wasn’t paying 16 K per video, not now, not 5 years ago.
This guy may not be gay, he may be a bisexual who prefers to live with women, but he’s not straight or purely gay for pay. He’s really beautiful though, and life is difficult, so I wish him the very best–whatever he wants to be.
sam says
“You made your bed, now lie in it”. I can’t really feel sorry for him. Again, when will these guys learn that even 1 film is going to come back to haunt you. Porn is a path to nowhere.
Anderson says
That is for you gay guys who give your money to those str8 ‘piece of shit’ men!
USA should be a very liberal country, if this guys done gay porn here in my country he’ll pointed forever!
Dakota Cochrane, the whole world see your hole getting hardly pounded! This is priceless, man!
Rob says
I don’t know but somehow this makes it even hotter to me. @Andersen, may I ask what country you are from? In the USA I actually think this will create maybe 24 hours of buzz on a very few UF sites and then most people will shrug and say: so what. I went to a NFC bodybuilder show in L.A. last year and several of the top ranking guys had done gay porn and it didn’t seem to faze anyone. I just don’t buy the bullshit when these guys say: oh, I hated every minute of doing it. Yeah, sure. Also, if he indeed made $80,000-which I doubt because it would be very hard for the studio to buy these guys so generously and have any kind of profit margin, he should be careful because know doubt the IRS will take notice and come after him to insure he paid the full amount of his taxes.
Anderson says
@Rob I feel shame to be gay when I see these gay4pay guys saying “Every time I was down there, I hated it” or “(my incentives are) money and magic blue pills” (Paddy O’Brian said that for QueerClick days ago).
Sounds like these guys are/want to be better than us gays.
Tia Maria says
Oh @Anderson. Man after my own heart 🙂
I’ve always said it and will say it again. These sexually misguided boys give off an attitude as if they are doing us viewers a favour by taking off their kit and get fucked. It’s just so off putting not mention self loathing of people to continue to support these ‘acts’.
mj says
You know a lot of these gay4pay guys are always saying that they needed the money to pay for college. you know, the military talks to you about programs which help pay your way as long as you keep your grades well. sooo I don’t see why they tend to choose and blame everything on gay porn when they could’ve signed up for something didn’t require them to get their cherry blossoms violated. just saying
Spartak says
Stupid pussy man!
Rob says
@Andersen, I agree completely. But you shouldn’t feel ashamed because these guys are sleezebags, that’s their issue to deal with (or not, apparently.) They are more than willing to fucked and suck cock on camera which due to Cyberspace is everywhere and will be forever, and yet they feel they have to later say how much they hated sucking those cocks and getting fucked by all those other guys. I don’t buy it. This story doesn’t even ring true. He doesn’t say he stopped doing it because he was so revolted; it says he stopped because his girlfriend asked him to. WTF? I don’t enjoy having sex with women so…I don’t do it! Pretty easy. This story cracked me up so much I actually printed it up and showed to a bunch of straight guys at the gym today. Every single one just laughed and said, yeah, sure, he’s not gay. Believe me, these guys are NOT better than any gay men. The 16th century English philosopher Occsam had an expression refrred to as Occsam’s Razor: the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. These guys made gay porn because they enjoyed the experience and enjoyed having sex with other men. *Oh, what are “magic blue pills” anyway?
hrsers says
How the fuck are you that broke? This story is such bullshit. No 20 year old is desperate and in dire need for 80k. Beyond paying for school (which loans and such would obviously cover), how could he have bills that large? Accept responsibility for your actions and don’t blame it on bullshit reasons.
Tia Maria says
@Rob…. Agree with you re shame. It’s not ours to feel but these ‘gay4pay’ dudes to deal. Then again in my view guys like these are not men enough to own their truth so expecting them to deal with shame, well it’s little too adventurous. The ‘magic blue pills’ are Viagra pills.
timucua says
@ Drew its so discocerting and he wont admit the truth he wanted the quick money but he somehow feel slight embarassing because there are still some societal stigma regarding to same gender sexual intercourse.
Mike says
He did not earn that much cash doing his movies. He’s only throwing that figure out to try and save face (at least he hopes that will do it). Because if people knew how little he actually made then they’d all be scratching their heads wondering why a “straight” guy sucked cock for so little money.
Sam.I.Am. says
That hurts. You’re calling your fans a mistake too in my opinion. If you owned up to it, I’d have supported you but ya didn’t so hmph. Be blasted on the news as another Dustin Xito.
waht! says
I love watching UFC but for totally different reasons than your average straight guy, still like watching guys beat each other up…lol I will be checking out this series. Honestly how could anyone gay or straight do porn and think they could sweep it under the rug or ignore it.
RawSlut says
He’s a midget, someone told me.
DaveyX says
Sad thing is that this is reality, and it is disappointing to know that he “hated” what he did after going through with it for so long, but what can you do? It might hurt some of you but it doesn’t bother me one bit. He’s the one that has to deal with the heckling from the public and the struggle of trying to forget his past that most people won’t ever let go. It was really something he should have thought about in retrospect if he had planned on being “famous”. Same goes for all those other people that have sordid pasts. I do feel sorry for him, he’s going to have a hard run, but he has no one to blame but himself.
alex9gr says
he hated it???
yeah right …
and what experience did he hated the most?
to fuck a guy or getting pounded like a bitch?
He should clear that out too in that interview.
Also, dude, admitting that you have been fucked for money without getting any pleasure out of it doesnt make you a man…
It makes you a slut…and personally i think you are a great one…
manu says
I don’t think he said anything wrong or disrespectful.
Apparently many gays enjoy being offended and find something to moan about . Sad!
Peter says
I can’t believe he hated it. I couln’t make 8 videos fucking woman. I don’t believe for a minute that Gay for Pay actors are straight. They are Gay or Bi.
Does Straight for Pay excist?
alex9gr says
Thats exactly what i think Peter.
You cant have sex with a guy if you dont like guys.At least for a bit.
I mean come on…we all know that human sexuality is more complicated than this.
We are not just straight or gay ,most of the man kind is more or less bisexual.
And Manu i dont know if your comment was written also for me but i didnt say anything disrespectful for Danny either.
I just underlined a common truth…
if you get fucked for money and you still do it even if you hate the sex with your “customers” ,well, that makes you a whore.
Justme says
I agree with Peter, I don’t buy that a “Straight” guy would allow himself to be fucked on camera that many times. This kinda reminds me of Ted Colunga and the reason I can’t even stand looking at him; he has basically been doing porn, mostly as a bottom for ages, escorts and got fucked by 20 different guys in a gang bang, and keeps saying he’s straight, he hates having to kiss men, and he hopes to one day get married to a woman and have kids.
Guys like them can go to hell in their enormous transparent closets for all I care, that’s why there are out porn stars who do deserve my attention more.
Grizelda says
He didn’t make anywhere near $80K people. He did 12 scenes two of which were solos. He may have pulled in closer to $30k.
TheTipOnlyPlease says
Hmmm, I wonder why he didn’t do straight porn? If he’s really straight. More money in gay? Sure. But I think there’s a little curiosity there. So, don’t be a hypocrite. Just say you like to do it with boys too. Don’t worry, they MMA won’t beat you up in the locker room. It’s 2012.
Rob says
Ted Colunga got fucked by 20 different guys in a gang bang? I’m not a fan but what’s the name of the video? Sounds hot. @Justme, I am in totally agreement but I have to feel sorry for these self-deluded guys. It must be a tough life.
Manuel says
OMG!!!!
I didn’t know porn actors get those wages
it’s incredible
mich says
@Rob, the film was called “Underground”, it was shot in 2003 for High Octane and Colunga is listed there as Fred Fele. And he was banged by 15 not 20 guys, but who can count accurately when the guys are just all over the place?
james floyd says
all the cool celebs have sex tapes!
good advertising right?
Nautaas says
Isn’t it better that straight guys whore themselves on film for our stimulation that than gay guys should? I mean, it’s obviously something that only people with low self esteem do and it doubtless damages them further, witness Roman Ragazzi’s and Corbin Fisher’s Sean’s recent suicides, not to mention the dozens of others we’ve seen in the past couple of decades. Making porn is not healthy for people. Better the heteros should do it.
DM says
I know this post is over two years old, but I can’t help and make a comment (someone may eventually read).
My personal view (and one that I think is far more true and accurate than most assumptions here), is that Dakota is bisexual if not out and out gay. In another post another guy who works out of a bar in Nebraska, mentioned seeing him on SC, and that he walked into his bar, and they eventually slept together. I don’t usually like to feed the rumor mill, but hey, each their own.
Secondly, I do believe that he “hated” doing some of the porn shoots, though not necessarily the good sex parts (bj’s, solos, him penetrating other guys). The reason I believe him, is for the same reason many other confirmed gay actors hated it (the horror stories)–long hours and painful bottoming for real straight guys who have trouble getting aroused by the guys they are supposed to be doing; fecal matter coming out sometimes; smells, etc. Plus he had to do some face saving with his then girlfriend, co-workers, manager, and UFC fans. He just took a kernel of truth from his experience and made it into a blanket statement for all his scenes.
Now having said that what I don’t know is that now that he is married with 2 kids. How does that work out? For sure he likes guys, and may also like girls, but I wonder if these bi guys go looking outside the marriage for DL love. Not that I would indulge in it (cheating), but I do kind of pity the girl and kind of makes me dislike the guy (maybe me, but it seems like they are trying to have it “all”, good looking guys to sleep with, a wife and kids, and family life as well, even if it means hurting some people in the process). Still I can’t really judge that harshly because I’ve never been in that position, though I do wonder about it sometimes. We have to realize he comes from conservative Nebraska, where anything gay is most likely frowned upon heavily. So in essence since he is bi, he simply chose the route of least resistance–the straight family life route, (even if it means ignoring or suppressing his gay side desires), relying only on his straight desires for sexual satisfaction (or so I hope and believe, unless he is indeed cheating on his wife and is on the DL in Nebraska somewhere).
Rafael says
He neither hated nor earned anywhere near $80,000 from it. These are just things he says to protect his straight image.
Rafael says
He neither hated it, nor earned anywhere near $80,000 from it. These are just things he says to protect his straight image to his über-homophobic audience.