Luke Rockhold Implores Donald Trump to Assist Imprisoned Cain Velasquez

Luke Rockhold believes it’s a extreme injustice that Cain Velasquez is once more behind bars … and now, he’s urging Donald Trump to step in and help therapy the issue.

Rockhold knowledgeable TMZ Sports activities actions on Tuesday he believes Velasquez’s attempt to considerably hurt Harry Goularte on a Northern California roadway once more in February 2022 was “significantly justified” — as a result of the MMA legend believed the individual had molested one in all CV’s shut relations.

Velasquez ended up spending one yr behind bars and an additional two beneath residence arrest after he was thrown in jail for the alleged tried murder … and Rockhold knowledgeable us that punishment should have been adequate.

However when a determine ordered Velasquez to serve 5 years in jail on Monday (with credit score rating for about three years time served) … Rockhold said Trump should step in and help change points.

Whereas the president, in spite of everything, can’t formally pardon the 42-year-old former UFC champion — it’s a state matter, in any case — he can positively throw his weight spherical, and Rockhold made it clear he’d acknowledge that.

“He’s executed his time,” Rockhold said of Velasquez. “He’s proved he’s not a menace to society.”

Rockhold has actually frolicked with Velasquez within the neighborhood recently … the two — who had been longtime MMA teammates at American Kickboxing Academy — visited a youngsters’s hospital, and Luke said Cain was nothing nonetheless implausible to the kids and staff there.

“He is a big teddy bear,” Luke said. “What can I say? He’s merely the nicest man ever.”