Former UFC champ found dead in desert

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Tuesday, Sept. 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.’”