Luke Rockhold believes it is a severe injustice that Cain Velasquez is again behind bars … and now, he is urging Donald Trump to step in and assist treatment the problem.

Rockhold informed TMZ Sports activities on Tuesday he believes Velasquez’s try to significantly harm Harry Goularte on a Northern California roadway again in February 2022 was “considerably justified” — because the MMA legend believed the person had molested one in every of CV’s shut family members.

Velasquez ended up spending one yr behind bars and an extra two beneath home arrest after he was thrown in jail for the alleged tried homicide … and Rockhold informed us that punishment ought to have been sufficient.

But when a decide ordered Velasquez to serve 5 years in jail on Monday (with credit score for about three years time served) … Rockhold stated Trump ought to step in and assist change issues.

Whereas the president, after all, cannot formally pardon the 42-year-old former UFC champion — it is a state matter, in any case — he can definitely throw his weight round, and Rockhold made it clear he’d recognize that.

“He is executed his time,” Rockhold stated of Velasquez. “He is proved he is not a menace to society.”

Rockhold has truly frolicked with Velasquez in the neighborhood lately … the 2 — who had been longtime MMA teammates at American Kickboxing Academy — visited a kids’s hospital, and Luke stated Cain was nothing however fantastic to the children and workers there.

“He is a giant teddy bear,” Luke stated. “What can I say? He is simply the nicest man ever.”