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Cain Velasquez’s Sentencing in Attempted Murder Case Pushed Back to March 2025

Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez won’t know his fate until March.

In August, Velasquez pleaded no-contest to a series of charges including premeditated attempted murder, felony assault charges, and other related gun charges after he was arrested back in 2022 following a high-speed chase where he allegedly fired several rounds from a handgun at a car containing Harry Goularte, a man accused of molesting Velasquez’s son at a daycare owned by his mother.

Velasquez faces a potential penalty anywhere from probation to life in prison.

A motions hearing for Velasquez is still on the docket for Friday, January 24 but his sentencing and probation hearing is now scheduled for March 24.