Cain Velasquez is heading to the GFL, however in a administration position.
The promotion introduced through a launch on Friday that the previous UFC heavyweight champ has signed with the promotion as a staff supervisor — though the timing is a bit unusual. Velasquez is predicted to seem in courtroom for a sentencing listening to for tried homicide prices on Jan. 24.
In accordance the discharge, Velasquez has tapped American Kickboxing Academy coach Javier Mendez as head coach of his staff.
Velasquez plead no-contest to the tried homicide cost, and others, stemming from an 2022 incident the place the highly-touted heavyweight chased a automobile for 11 miles that contained Harry Goularte, a person accused of molesting the fighter’s son at a daycare owned by his mom. Velasquez is accused of firing a number of rounds from a .40-caliber handgun on the car, placing Goularte’s stepfather — who sustained non-life threatening accidents — within the arm.
After spending eight months in jail after his preliminary arrest, Velasquez has been free since being launched on $1 million bail.
GFL officers additionally formally introduced the signing of Paige VanZant, together with different ladies’s rivals similar to Cynthia Calvillo, Julia Budd, and Tonya Evinger. As of now, the inaugural GFL occasion date has not been introduced.
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