It’s been a rough time for former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, who has spent the last four years in and out of jails and prisons on an attempted murder charge.
There’s still various criminal and civil cases winding their way through court related to the 2022 revenge shooting, but Velasquez was released from prison on February 15th and is now back at home with his family. In a new video uploaded to his Instagram account, Cain thanked his followers for their support through the life-altering ordeal.
“Now that it’s been a couple weeks since my release, I’ve had some time to kinda get back into things, get back into a normal way of life,” Velasquez said. “Get used to just doing the normal things, being in the home with the family, being there for my kids. And I just wanted to thank everybody for their love and support. Your words of inspiration, of encouragement constantly just lifted me up, myself and my family.”
“You have no idea what your words and your encouragement and your love has meant to me and my family,” he continued. “So just thank you. I’ll keep doing the work to get back to everyone. And just for myself now, to slowly get back out there. I didn’t want to overwhelm myself with the pace of life that I was getting used to, to now all of a sudden, a new way of life, a new way of living, a new rhythm. So for myself, I just had to kind of get used to it, and I’ve been doing that.”
“So again, just thank you. Thank you. Thank you everyone. And it’s good to be out.”
The moment Cain Velasquez walked free, bookies started putting up odds on whether the big man would return to fighting despite being 43 years old (and his well-documented history of really bad injuries). Velasquez was also building up a nice little pro wrestling career with runs in WWE and Lucha Libre AAA that he could go back to. And the first hint that he’d be freed from jail came from a social media post gauging interest in a potential breathwork seminar.
For now, coming up on the one month mark since his release, Velasquez is just focused on re-integrating into his own life again.
Get him on the White House card.
If he’s fighting the pedo that messed with his kid that’s the new main event.