SAN JOSE, Calif. — Former UFC champion Cain Velasquez will have to continue fighting in court after a judge allowed criminal charges — alleging that Velasquez tried to kill a South Bay man accused of molesting his child — to proceed to trial.
But he’ll be able to defend himself out of jail, where he has spent the past eight months, after Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Arthur Bocanegra granted Velasquez’s release on $1 million bail and an array of conditions including GPS monitoring.
The rulings Tuesday by Bocanegra concluded a two-day preliminary hearing. A trial would likely start sometime next year, with a possible life prison sentence on the line for Velasquez, the mixed-martial arts fighter who fought out of San Jose.
