At 34 years of age, former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez (pictured) had decided now is as better time as any to push all of his chips to the center of the octagon. Velasquez is rolling the dice on the future of his MMA career, and there’s no turning back.
Velasquez’s gamble is two-fold: first and foremeost, Velasquez is part of the five-member fighter board that leads the Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association (MMAAA), the freshly formed semi-anti-UFC group that is looking to force the the sport’s most prestigious organization into giving its athletes a bigger piece of the pie.