Former UFC Heavyweight Champion and WWE alum Cain Velasquez could be free in just a couple of months.
43-year-old Velasquez is listed as having a “Parole Eligible Date” of February 2026, per the California Incarcerated Records and Information Search (CIRIS). He’s currently being held at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California.
Velasquez previously had his parole date listed as March 2026. Parole eligibility can be shortened or extended based on a variety of factors and isn’t a guarantee of when someone could be discharged.
Velasquez was given a five-year prison sentence last year for a series of charges, including attempted murder. The charges stemmed from an early 2022 car chase with Harry Goularte Jr., a man who it was alleged had sexually assaulted Velasquez’s son. Velasquez unloaded a handgun into a vehicle carrying Goularte Jr., causing non-life-threatening injuries to a family member inside the car.
While initially entering a not guilty plea, Velasquez later switched to a no contest plea by September 2024. The change meant that Velasquez would be convicted of the crime but not charged as guilty.
Velasquez was given credit for roughly three and a half years of time already served when he was sentenced last year.
Velasquez is best known for his MMA career, defeating heavyweight stars like Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos across a pair of UFC title reigns.
He started to pursue a professional wrestling career shortly following his MMA retirement in 2019, making his in-ring debut as part of AAA’s TripleMania XXVII. He had a brief WWE stint, facing Brock Lesnar at Crown Jewel 2019.
