Based on the California Incarcerated Information database, former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez is now eligible for parole as of February 2026.
Velasquez, 43, pled no-contest to tried homicide in October 2024 and was sentenced to 5 years in jail. He’s serving his sentence on the Correctional Coaching Facility, also referred to as Soledad State Jail in Soledad, California. A part of his sentence consists of time-served and home arrest.
After the now retired skilled blended martial artist was first incarcerated, Velasquez’s parole date was listed as March 2026 however prisoners can accrue time without work a sentence for taking part in rehabilitative applications.
Velasquez was arrested in February 2022 after a high-speed automobile chase the place he fired a number of rounds from a handgun at a automobile containing a person named Harry Goularte, who’s accused of sexually molesting the fighter’s son at a daycare owned by Goularte’s mom. A number of rounds have been fired on the car, however Goularte’s stepfather Paul Bender was the one one struck by a bullet. Bender sustained non-life threatening accidents.
