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Dead UFC fighter and Eddie Vedder...

JosephKJosephK Posts: 220
edited September 2008 in The Porch
Say what you will about the UFC, this is a sad story about a great fighter who passed away this week while camping (etc) out in the desert.

Read the end of the story for a mention of Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed."

http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=14429
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  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    that sucks. not a fan of the whole fighting thing, but still.

    sad for anyone to go early like this.
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  • Pearl Jam_iePearl Jam_ie Posts: 821
    Just read about this. I'm a big fight fan and I'm shocked to hear about Evan Tanner. Everything I've ever read or heard about him was that he was really a free-spirited guy and had a huge sense of adventure. I guess he spoke of his camping trip that he was taking and actually said it wasn't an "Into the Wild" thing. Sometimes bad things happen to good people, I guess. He always had exciting fights. Very sad deal.
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  • AmishGuy91AmishGuy91 Posts: 834
    The story sounds very similar to Into The Wild.
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Wow. Crazy story.. just visited his MySpace. I hope he wasn't trying to pull a Christopher McCandless.
  • leafs4everleafs4ever Posts: 833
    thank you for posting this, i had no idea... i'm a pretty big mma fan and a fan of evan's.... i just can't believe this.

    He had troubles in the past and was doing such a good job of changing things around in his life, it's really hard to believe this happened.

    RIP EVAN
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  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    I'm not too familiar with the MMA circles but man, way too soon to be taken away.

    RIP Evan Tanner
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  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    pimprock wrote:
    Say what you will about the UFC, this is a sad story about a great fighter who passed away this week while camping (etc) out in the desert.

    Read the end of the story for a mention of Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed."

    http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=14429

    thanks for posting this. evan was a great person too. he went out of his way to help people when he didn't have to. he was humble and kind, and always did things in his own way.

    i wish you could have had a few more adventures, my friend.

    "believe in the power of one"
  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    evan's myspace...

    http://www.myspace.com/evan_tanner
  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    for evan...he really liked the song. :)

    eddie vedder - guaranteed

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SxCph5I1Q

    On bended knee is no way to be free
    Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently
    All my destinations will accept the one that's me
    So I can breathe...

    Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
    Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know
    A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul
    And so it goes...

    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
    Holding me like gravity are places that pull
    If ever there was someone to keep me at home
    It would be you...

    Everyone I come across, in cages they bought
    They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought
    I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts
    I'm alive...

    Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
    Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
    Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead
    Overhead...

    Leave it to me as I find a way to be
    Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting
    I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me
    Guaranteed
  • mattxpikemattxpike Posts: 53
    a gifted fighter who over came a lot, Tanner was a great champion and a better person to all who knew him.

    rest in peace
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  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    kyria has set up a comments area on evan's website to leave comments or stories about evan if anyone is a fan or would like to drop a comment...

    http://www.evantanner.net/
  • jonbond1779jonbond1779 London, UK Posts: 1,641
    http://sherdog.com/news/news/former-ufc-champ-tanner-dead-at-37-14334
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  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    edited because the link didn't work.
  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Interesting how quickly nature can overcome even the most badass humans out there. Sometimes all that strength and heart just don't mean a thing. RIP
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  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    a couple of tribute videos for evan, set to "guaranteed"...

    pictures...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFxZoPihZHQ

    some video and pictures...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBgap6c5H0A

    this one is set to "all along the watchtower" with footage from three fights...vs. baroni I, vs. lawler, vs. terrell (MW Championship)...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqxIxXC5kew
  • adamg5adamg5 Posts: 803
    His myspace page had a different version of guaranteed than I have heard. does anyone know where to get that version? My "into the wild" movie soundtrack sounds different. thanks.
  • CitizenRickCitizenRick Posts: 1,079
    R.I.P. Evan
    "Had my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse...of my innocense, got back my inner sence, baby got it...still got it"
  • FaithfultoyouFaithfultoyou Posts: 40
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Interesting how quickly nature can overcome even the most badass humans out there. Sometimes all that strength and heart just don't mean a thing. RIP

    Wow, that is very deep, and very true!!!!!!
  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    adamg5 wrote:
    His myspace page had a different version of guaranteed than I have heard. does anyone know where to get that version? My "into the wild" movie soundtrack sounds different. thanks.

    i think a few people have asked. personally, i'm not sure. sorry.
  • chikevinchikevin Posts: 421
    pimprock wrote:
    Say what you will about the UFC, this is a sad story about a great fighter who passed away this week while camping (etc) out in the desert.

    Read the end of the story for a mention of Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed."

    http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=14429
    i don't know what happened to this guy...
    ...but what i do know is that while ed's 'guaranteed' had to do with the subject from 'into the wild', there's no way he would want it associated with someone who is currently dead under for reasons out of their control.

    think he, and the band, have had enough of that.
  • chikevinchikevin Posts: 421
    adamg5 wrote:
    His myspace page had a different version of guaranteed than I have heard. does anyone know where to get that version? My "into the wild" movie soundtrack sounds different. thanks.
    that's what's important to you out of this story?
    sigh...
  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    chikevin wrote:
    i don't know what happened to this guy...
    ...but what i do know is that while ed's 'guaranteed' had to do with the subject from 'into the wild', there's no way he would want it associated with someone who is currently dead under for reasons out of their control.

    think he, and the band, have had enough of that.

    i guess just to clarify....evan really liked the song, and liked eddie vedder as well. he'd been listening to some eddie and was doing some reading about the california deserts as he planned for his trip.

    as he'd had it before, "guaranteed" was playing on his myspace profile. i think he put it up as soon as he heard the song for the first time. he changed it a couple of times, but this is the song still playing on his myspace page. i don't think evan ever intended for the song to be associated with him, nor did he want to be associated with "into the wild". i know that for sure, even though he did enjoy the movie and the story.

    people are making tribute videos using the song and mentioning it in articles probably because of the similarities between evan's story and the film, and the fact that it was playing on his page at the time of his passing.

    a lot of us have had "guaranteed" as a song on our myspace profiles (if we have one) i'm sure. evan was just like the rest of us, playing the song because he liked it. we don't choose the time when we leave this place and what people choose to associate with our passings.

    still, it's a beautiful song and evan was a beautiful person.
  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    this is an interview i posted in my tribute thread for evan on the AET, but i thought i would post it here as well...

    a two part interview that i believe was done during the training leading up to his last fight against kendall grove. evan talks about his philosophies on life and what he has learned in his life, making change in the world, kindness, his fascination with the world and reasons for adventuring, and trying to find purpose in the paths we follow...

    the interview is called "for a better world".

    "we've kind of run away with ourselves, run away from ourselves here in this society. we've lost touch. very few people get it... took me a while."

    Part 1:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBwjaPyqxYc

    "i learned the things that truly matter. now i can live by it. one of the ultimate things a human can learn is kindness for their fellow humans, and understanding. i'd like to teach those things to my children."

    Part 2:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y0LadiZdOA
  • upina2001upina2001 Indiana Posts: 764
    this is a sad situation. We all should feel so fortunate to be alive.
    Now go tell the people close to you that you love them before its too late.
    Cause you just never know man......ya just never know when its your time.
    God Bless his Family.

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  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    upina2001 wrote:
    this is a sad situation. We all should feel so fortunate to be alive.
    Now go tell the people close to you that you love them before its too late.
    Cause you just never know man......ya just never know when its your time.
    God Bless his Family.

    well said. :)
  • gozzo5058gozzo5058 Posts: 611
    very unfortunate...from what i've read about this was he was very prepared for his camping trip.
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  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    there is a short tribute video for evan on ufc.com's homepage...a couple of nice pictures that evan took are in the video. i always liked the last one. he took a lot of those...staring out into the vastness of the world.

    http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=VideoPlayer.home&gid=14523
  • piombapiomba Posts: 103
    they aired his final fight last night. RIP Evan.
  • mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    piomba wrote:
    they aired his final fight last night. RIP Evan.

    oh yeah, the finale replay! i forgot that it was on last night. i'm hoping they'll have a piece done up for him for the fight night this wednesday. i'm sure joe rogan will at least have a few words to say.
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