Former UFC lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov is, like many in the MMA community, standing by Cain Velasquez. The former UFC heavyweight is behind bars on charges of attempted murder, and was recently denied bail. Velasquez allegedly shot at a car containing a man charged with molesting a close family member of his.
Khabib told TMZ that he empathized with Velasquez, hoped to visit his old training buddy in prison, and called into question the validity of a system that would lock up Cain Velasquez but not the alleged child molester he was chasing.
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“Who knows about Cain? Yesterday I was talking to [American Kickboxing Academy coach Javier Mendez], I [asked] him if there’s any chance, if it’s possible to go see him in jail. Because in Russia we can go and see anybody. I asked because I don’t know the law here in the U.S.
I ask him, ‘I really want to go to see him. After a couple of days I’m gonna be in San Jose.’ I want to go to see him, shake his hand, give him good energy. Anybody in the world who respects himself, who loves his family, is going to do the same thing, exactly.”
Khabib went on to point out Velasquez’s exemplary behavior throughout his life before the alleged incident. Velasquez was denied bail recently, in stark contrast to the situation that landed him in prison, where he chased down alleged child molester Harry Goularte upon Goularte’s release from jail.
“Come on, nobody is going to think about the law when you have something about family. You have to protect your family. If animals protect their family, of course humans are gonna protect their family. You talk about law, code, they hold him in jail, I don’t understand these things.
It always has to be fair. This is not fair. They sit in jail and [Goularte] he’s outside. Worry about other guy. OK, put this guy in jail too. He is more dangerous for people than Cain Velasquez.
Never in his life, [Velasquez is] 40 years old, never in his life we have problem socially, outside people, in the gym, he’s the most respectful guy I’ve ever seen in my life. I was training with him more than 10 years.
I know his family, everybody loves Cain. What happens, he act like anybody’s gonna act. This is his kids, you know? Cain, dangerous only for one minute, but this guy dangerous for anybody. He is outside, I don’t understand this.”
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