Reaction | Former UFC Heavyweight Champ Cain Velasquez Sentenced

MMA Fighting

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Sports News, Sports, News

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Cain Velasquez, former UFC heavyweight champion, found out his fate on Monday at this sentencing. MMA Fighting's Mike Heck and Damon Martin react to the breaking news. Follow Mike Heck: @m_heckjr Damon Martin: @DamonMartin Subscribe: http://goo.gl/dYpsgH Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/u8VvLi Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/eFhsvM Like MMAF on Facebook: http://goo.gl/uhdg7Z Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/nOATUI Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.6	Thank you. network. All right, everybody, Mike Heck here from MMAfighting.com.
0:48.9	A nearly three-year-long saga has come to an end for former UFC heavyweight champion Kane
0:55.1	Velasquez. Moments ago, we found out the fate for one Kane Velasquez. He was sentenced to
1:02.1	five years in prison after pleading no contest to a variety of charges, including attempted
1:09.2	murder following an initial arrest back in February
1:11.9	2022.
1:14.0	We were wondering where this is going to go.
1:16.0	Prosecutors in the case were seeking 30 years to life in prison for Kane Velasquez,
1:21.0	and in the end, it ended up being five years, but there's a little bit more than meets
1:25.3	the eye to the sentencing.
1:27.1	And that's why I'm
1:28.2	not the expert on this. So let us bring in the man who has been falling along with all this since the
1:34.0	very beginning from MMAfighting.com, Mr. Damon Martin. And Damon, all things considered here,
1:40.9	and I want to let you sort of get into the meat and potatoes of everything that happened here. The prosecutors wanted 30 years to life in prison for Kane Velasquez
1:49.4	after everything that happened. He ends up getting five. This seems like it's obviously not a win for
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