Former UFC champ found dead in desert

Tue, Sep 9, 2008 (1 a.m.)

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champ Evan Tanner was found dead near Palo Verde, Calif. on Monday. Tanner had trekked into the desert on a journey to “cleanse” himself, according to Douglas Vincitorio of Tanner’s management team. “He went out to the desert to do a ‘cleansing’ as he called it. Kind of like ‘Survivorman.’”

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