Hard to imagine it’s already been a year since we lost the former UFC middleweight champ…

For more on Evan Tanner — the man as well as the fighter — be sure to check out his ‘For a better world’ unreleased videos after the jump.

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Quoteworthy:
“It’s Tuesday night. Tomorrow I go out into the desert. It has taken over a month to get all the gear together. The preparation for this adventure took far longer than I had expected. I’ve never done this before, so I took my time reading books, studying the land, and researching gear. A few [...]

From Amarillo.com:
“A memorial service is scheduled for Evan Tanner, the 1989 Caprock High School graduate who went on to become a champion mixed martial arts fighter. ‘Celebration of Life’ services are planned for 2 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Amarillo Civic Center auditorium…. Correspondence may be sent to Tanner’s family at 504 S. Harrison St., [...]

It’s interesting how so often death brings out the best in life.
Such is the case with the late Evan Tanner, whose body was discovered on September 8 by Yuma Search and Rescue Marines in the Palo Verde Mountain range.
The coroner who responded from El Centro, Calif., reports that Tanner succumbed to heat exhaustion after setting [...]

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Check out the Associated Press news report and footage in the wake of Evan’s death after the jump.

This is hopefully the first of many touching tributes to the former champion. Let’s hope the UFC opens its video vault and does something to honor him correctly. In the meantime, note that there is also a petition going around to have him posthumously inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame. GO SIGN IT RIGHT [...]

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“I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment, could cost me my life.”

– Evan Tanner, August 18, 2008
It appears that former UFC middleweight champion Evan Tanner predicted his own death less than one month ago.
The Imperial County Sheriff’s Department today discovered the dead body of a man in [...]

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“I’m hoping that very soon I’ll be sitting out in the quiet of the desert beneath a deep blue midnight sky, listening to the calm desert breeze. The idea going into the desert came to me soon after I moved to Oceanside. It was motivated by my friend Sara’s talk of treasure hunting and [...]