ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — The attempted murder trial for the ex-husband of professional boxer Christy Martin continued in an Orange County courtroom on Wednesday.
Christy Martin, who now goes by her maiden name of Salters, said she went fist to fist with her ex-husband, James Martin, and it was unlike any fight in her professional boxing career.
Martin is charged with attempted murder for allegedly trying to kill Salters.
On November 23, 2010, Rick Cole was on his way home when he was flagged down by Salters.
"Saw her with blood on her. I didn't get a good look at her until they were getting her out of my truck," Cole said.
Cole wasn't the first driver the injured that Salters tried to flag down.
"She was lifting up one hand and saying, 'Help, help," said witness Edwin Lebaron.
By the time Lebaron pulled over near Thompson Road and Fox Tree Trail, Salters was already getting into the vehicle behind him.
Lebaron testified that a balding man with white hair, later identified as James Martin, walked out of a home in his underwear.
"Did you notice any injuries to the backside or side of him?" asked an attorney.
"None, whatsoever," said Lebaron.
However, defense attorney William Hancock showed injury photos of a handcuffed Martin.
They were taken about a week after his ex-wife's trip to the hospital.
Prosecutors were quick to point out that there was no way to know how those wounds were inflicted.
Also, deputies said it took them a week after the incident to find and arrest Martin, who was hiding in a shed.
Meanwhile, jurors have already heard what might be the most compelling testimony from Martin herself.
"I tried to get away; I tried to get him away from me. I kicked at him," Salters testified on Tuesday.
Salters testified that she had enough and she had decided to come clean about her homosexuality, and that threw her into the fight of her life.
"It's the only way it can be free, whatever this man puts me through I have to survive it," she said.
In November of 2010 Salters told Martin that she was leaving him for Sherry Lusk, a woman she knew from high school.
"He kept saying he was going to destroy her career," said Lusk.
"I thought we were on the same page that I never really loved him and he didn't really love me so let's be for real," she said.
Salters said the news sent Martin over the edge.
Prosecutors said that's when Martin followed Salters into the bedroom of their Orange County home with a knife and stabbed her in her side and breast, and then he pulled out a gun.
Salters said Martin stabbed her, beat her head against a dresser, and then shot her four inches from her heart.
"I said, '(Expletive), you cannot kill me, and I meant it," said Salters.
The defense tried to tear apart her story of that night that she escaped by flagging down Cole's car to rush her to the emergency room.
Martin was calm during the testimony. His attorney tried to point inconsistencies in the victim's statements.
"Do you remember telling the investigator you got the gun out of Mr. Martin's pocket and pointed it at him?" asked defense attorney William Hancock.
"No, I told her I got the clip," replied Salters.
The defense also brought up Salters' prior cocaine use. But, she said when she was using cocaine Martin was her supplier.
If James Martin is convicted he faces life in prison.