It\u2019s been a rough time for former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, who has spent the last four years in and out of jails and prisons on an attempted murder charge.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow that it\u2019s been a couple weeks since my release, I\u2019ve had some time to kinda get back into things, get back into a normal way of life,\u201d Velasquez said. \u201cGet used to just doing the normal things, being in the home with the family, being there for my kids. And I just wanted to thank everybody for their love and support. Your words of inspiration, of encouragement constantly just lifted me up, myself and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have no idea what your words and your encouragement and your love has meant to me and my family,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo just thank you. I\u2019ll keep doing the work to get back to everyone. And just for myself now, to slowly get back out there. I didn\u2019t want to overwhelm myself with the pace of life that I was getting used to, to now all of a sudden, a new way of life, a new way of living, a new rhythm. So for myself, I just had to kind of get used to it, and I\u2019ve been doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo again, just thank you. Thank you. Thank you everyone. And it\u2019s good to be out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The moment Cain Velasquez walked free, bookies started putting up odds<\/a> on whether the big man would return to fighting despite being 43 years old (and his well-documented history of really bad injuries).<\/a> Velasquez was also building up a nice little pro wrestling career with runs in WWE and Lucha Libre AAA that he could go back to. And the first hint<\/a> that he\u2019d be freed from jail came from a social media post gauging interest in a potential breathwork seminar.<\/p>\n For now, coming up on the one month mark since his release, Velasquez is just focused on re-integrating into his own life again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a rough time for former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, who has spent the last four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-535512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}