Joe Rogan doesn’t perceive why former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has to spend even a single day behind bars.
In March, Velasquez was sentenced to 5 years in jail after pleading no-contest to a wide range of costs together with tried homicide following his preliminary arrest again in 2022 stemming from an 11-mile excessive pace chase. Velasquez was pursuing a automobile containing Harry Goularte, a person accused of molesting the fighter’s son at a daycare owned by his mom. Velasquez fired a number of rounds from a .40-caliber handgun on the automobile containing Goularte, with a bullet putting Goularte’s stepfather Paul Bender being struck within the arm.
On his podcast, Rogan spoke with former UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria concerning the scenario.
“He did what each father would’ve performed,” Rogan mentioned. “If you happen to’re not a father, you don’t perceive the murderous rage you’d have if some man molested your child. You don’t perceive. You’ll see pink in a approach that nobody would describe to you except you’re a father or mother, that f*cking anger.
“I imply, if there’s ever a plea for non permanent madness, that’s the plea. If there’s ever an individual that might justifiably say, ‘I used to be quickly insane,’ it’s a father chasing after somebody, particularly a person that molests your boy. …
“All people understands it,” Rogan continued. “He ought to’ve by no means gone to jail. He’s not a menace to society, he’s not a hazard, he shouldn’t be in jail, and he already did three years. … It’s horrific. I simply don’t perceive it.
“I imply, the decide’s palms had been tied, he needed to make a sentence and I feel that is the minimal quantity. They tried to present him 30 years for tried homicide as a result of he was simply capturing at this man. Clearly, once you’re driving and your capturing, you may miss him and kill a bystander. It’s very harmful. But in addition, the man was in a murderous rage for cause, and if he killed that man, the world could be higher off. That’s my feeling.”
Velasquez obtained credit score for 1,283 days of the five-year sentence earlier than going again to jail after sentencing.
Rogan was just lately in Miami calling the motion for UFC 314, an occasion attended by President Donald Trump. The longtime UFC shade commentator, podcaster, and comic hopes that Trump might assist Velasquez, maybe with some help from UFC CEO Dana White.
“I hope Trump pardons him,” Rogan mentioned. “I hope Dana makes one thing occur with that.”
