Evan Tanner: Former UFC Champ Found Dead
Former UFC Middleweight Champion and popular MMA fighter, Evan Tanner was found dead today in the Palo Verde mountain area of California.
The 37-year-old had last been heard from on September 3rd and when friends and family were not getting responses to their messages, a search for Tanner was formed on Saturday.
Apparantly Tanner had planned to head out into the wilderness with the bare necessities for survival and so far it’s unclear what took his life.
He wrote in his blog on August 27th: “I’ve been sitting around this apartment, bored to tears, waiting on the last of the gear I need for the desert adventure to come in the mail. I’ve really been looking forward to getting out there.
I’ve been writing about it a little bit here. It seems some MMA websites have reported on the story, posting up that I might die out in the desert, or that it might be my greatest opponent yet, etc.
Come on guys. It’s really common down in southern California to go out to the off road recreation areas in the desert about an hour away from LA and San Diego. So my plan is to go out to the desert, do some camping, ride the motorcycle, and shoot some guns. Sounds like a lot of fun to me. A lot of people do it.
This isn’t a version of “Into the Wild”. I’m not going out into the desert with a pair of shorts and a bowie knife, to try to live off the land. I’m going fully geared up, and I’m planning on having some fun.”
Wow that’s really eerie that he wrote about the possibility of his death in the desert and then it happened.
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