Cain Velasquez

Cain Velasquez is an American mixed martial artist. He is known in the sports world for his career in the mixed martial arts organization Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion, with victories over Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos. By the end of 2017, Velasquez was ranked #3 in UFC's official rankings. He is one of three children born to Mexican immigrant Efrain Velasquez and U.S. citizen Isabel. Velasquez made his fight debut in October 2006. He later met UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar in October 2010 at UFC 121 in a title match, where defeated Lesnar via Technical Knock-Out (TKO) in 4:12 of the first round. He later lost the title to Junior dos Santos at UFC on Fox in November 2011. He later faced dos Santos in a title rematch held at UFC 155 in December 2012. From 2006 to 2017, Velasquez fought a total of sixteen times and won fourteen of those matches.

In 2016, Velasquez began a film career, beginning with an appearance in the crime drama En cavale (2016), starring Vince Vaughn, Hailee Steinfeld and the late Bill Paxton. He quickly followed up with an appearance in the action drama Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016). In 2017, Velasquez appeared in the action-comedy Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone (2021).