In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience MMA Show featuring the now former UFC Featherweight Champion Ilia Topuria, Joe Rogan expressed his dismay over the harsh prison sentence handed to former UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez.
During their wide-ranging conversation about MMA, Rogan brought up the troubling situation surrounding Velasquez, who is currently serving a 5-year prison sentence.
“He’s in jail right now,” Rogan explained to Topuria. “He got sentenced. He got sentenced to 5 years. And the judge said this was the least amount he could sentence him. He didn’t want to sentence him.”
The case stems from a deeply disturbing incident involving Velasquez’s family. As Rogan detailed, “Cain’s son was going to daycare and there was a man who m*lested him at daycare. Cain found out about it, chased the man in his car and shot at him.”
“Cain gets arrested, Cain stayed in jail. The guy gets arrested and he got out on bail.”
“If you’re not a father, you do not understand the murderous rage you would have if some man m*lested your baby. You don’t understand. It’s it’s you would see red in a way that no one can describe to you unless you’re a parent.”
“If there’s ever a plea for temporary insanity, that’s that’s the plea. If there’s ever a person who could justifiably say ‘I was temporarily insane,’ it’s a father that’s chasing after someone, especially a man who m*lests your boy.”
“Everybody understands it. He should have never gone to jail. He’s not a threat to society. He’s not a danger. He shouldn’t be in prison.”
“And he already did three years. He was already in jail for three years.”
“He has been a great example for so many upcoming guys, like for the new generation. I don’t know why guys like him have to end up in the jail for something like that. He didn’t rob anyone.”
The conversation then turned to Velasquez’s credentials as a martial artist, with Rogan describing him as “an amazing fighter” with a “gas tank that was superhuman.” He noted that Velasquez was “too tough for his own good which is why he wound up like towards the end of his career he was just his body had deteriorated so much.”
“Maybe Trump pardons him. I mean that’s what I really hope, makes something happen with that.”
In Rogan’s view, the punishment simply doesn’t fit the circumstances of the case, especially considering who Velasquez is as a person and what prompted his actions. The segment highlighted not only the legal issues surrounding the case but also the human element of a father driven to protect his child from harm.
