Former UFC heavyweight champion and WWE wrestler Cain Velasquez was arrested on suspicion of tried homicide after he allegedly shot a person.
San Jose police introduced on Wednesday (AEDT) that Velasquez was arrested together with a capturing, during which an grownup male was hospitalised with non-life threatening accidents after being shot.
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The Mercury Information reviews that the person who Velasquez allegedly shot was just lately charged with molesting an in depth relative of the previous UFC star, in keeping with sources and courtroom data.
The identical report goes on to state that courtroom data present a collection of occasions that started final week after a relative of Velasquez’s relative reported being molested by a person at a house daycare in San Martin, California.
The person accused is 43-year-old Harry Eugene Goularte, who lives on the house the place the daycare is positioned and ran by his mom, in keeping with a felony criticism that charged him with one felony rely of a lewd and lascivious act with a toddler below the age of 14.
Velasquez was a two-time UFC heavyweight champion, successful the title from Brock Lesnar at UFC 121 in 2011 earlier than dropping it to Junior dos Santos.
He then regained the belt from dos Santos in 2013, defending it efficiently on two events earlier than being dethroned by Fabricio Werdum.
After two extra fights, a win over Travis Browne at UFC 200 and a 26-second knockout loss to Francis Ngannou in 2019, Velasquez retired from blended martial arts and went into professional wrestling.
In WWE, he didn’t defeat Lesnar for the heavyweight championship at a controversial present in Saudi Arabia, after which wrestlers have been reportedly held on their aircraft on the tarmac by order of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over a cost dispute.
Velasquez has additionally wrestled for Mexican lucha libre firm AAA.