Both the knockout loss to Francis Ngannou and news of his professional wrestling debut at TripleMania led some fans to speculate that former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was retiring from mixed martial arts.
According to longtime coach Javier Mendez, however, Velasquez ‘can’t wait’ to back in the Octagon and fight.
“I would say 100 percent [that is] a panic response,” Mendez said of the retirement rumors on a recent edition of The MMA Hour, per MMA Fighting’s Shaun Al-Shatti. “He hasn’t said anything. All I hear from him is he can’t wait to get back in.