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

Rockhold advised 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 considered one of CV’s shut family members.

Velasquez ended up spending one 12 months behind bars and an extra two underneath home arrest after he was thrown in jail for the alleged tried homicide … and Rockhold advised 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 mentioned 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 actually throw his weight round, and Rockhold made it clear he’d recognize that.

“He is finished his time,” Rockhold mentioned of Velasquez. “He is proved he isn’t a risk to society.”

Rockhold has really hung out with Velasquez in the neighborhood lately … the 2 — who had been longtime MMA teammates at American Kickboxing Academy — visited a youngsters’s hospital, and Luke mentioned Cain was nothing however great to the children and employees there.

“He is an enormous teddy bear,” Luke mentioned. “What can I say? He is simply the nicest man ever.”