RIP Evan Tanner
Posted by angryfightfan on September 9, 2008
For those of you who didn’t know, Evan Tanner died of exposure in the desert sometime in the last few days. He was out camping in the desert with the bare essentials and his motorbike broke down, he tried to walk back to civilisation but never made it. Tanner was probably my favourite MMA fighter. When I watched him fight I always wanted him to win more then any other fighter I like to watch, so I guess that makes him my favourite. There are other guys who I really enjoy watching fight, but if any of them fought Tanner I’d be going for Tanner.
I read Tanners blog for about 18 months. When he started the ‘Team Tanner’ idea, I bought some merchandise off him mainly because I needed the clothing and Tanner wanted the fans to support him so I thought I’d help out. Evan Tanner personally signed a card for me and sent me a thank you E-mail for buying ‘Team Tanner’ clothing off of his website and I talked to him over a few E-mails after he did this. Evan Tanner was an amazing and inspirational guy. The way he quit his alcohol addiction is amazing. I consider Tanner a role model, not because he lived a clean life or was a perfect man, but because he was who he was and he wasn’t afraid to admit it. I will definately miss reading his blog each week, all of his posts were interesting and entertaining and I’ve been addicted to it over the last year or so.
I feel for anyone who personally knew Evan because as sad as I am now, it could only be worse for people who actually knew the man personally.
BELIEVE in the POWER of ONE
RIP Evan Tanner
