Evan Tanner
Evan Tanner "be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi

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38 years old
Oceanside, California
United States



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    Evan Tanner's Interests
GeneralEverything
MusicI like it all.
MoviesEquilibrium, Cinderella Man, The Illusionist, Children of Men, The Fountain, Fight Club, Lonesome Dove, Unforgiven, Far and Away, Tombstone, Easy Rider, Finding Forester, Goodwill Hunting, Lady in the Water, The Count of Monte Cristo, Castaway, Hoosiers, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, V For Vendetta, The Libertine, Braveheart, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Last of the Mohicans, Rock Star, Schindler's List, The Last Samurai, Sleepless in Seattle, Gladiator, Life as a House, Dances with Wolves, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, The A&E version of Pride and Prejudice. Casablanca, Notorious, The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer, An Affair to Remember, A Beautiful Mind, LEGENDS OF THE FALL, Invincible, Forest Gump, Troy, the first Matrix, Super Troopers, The Breakfast Club, American Flyers, Vision Quest, Phenomenom, Eight Seconds, Pool Hall Junkies, Days of Thunder, Risky Business, The Electric Horseman, Cool Hand Luke, Saving Private Ryan, Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, Blow, Big, Gandhi, Malcom X, Lawrence of Arabia, The Cutting Edge, the Japanese version of "Shall We Dance", The Horseman on the Roof, The Seven Samurai..........
BooksMiyamoto Mushashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, Siddhartha by Herman Hess, the Gryphon and Sabine novels, Pride and Prejudice, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, The Guide to Getting It On, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, War and Peace, Les Miserable, The Brothers Karamazov, Tom Jones, Great Expectations, Ivanhoe, David Copperfield, The Art of War, Doctor Zhivago, Crime and Punishment, All Quiet on the Western Front, Eminent Victorians, I, Cladius, The Book of Five Rings, The Code of the Samurai, The Tao of Pooh, The Te of Piglet, Buddhism for Dummies, Linda Goodman's Sun Signs, Linda Godman's Love Signs, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, The Wisdom of Lao Tse, the Lord of the Ring trilogy, The Tassajara Bread Book, One, Out of Africa, Interview with the Vampire..........

     Evan Tanner's Details
Status:Single
Here for:Networking
Orientation:Straight
Body type:6' 0" / Athletic
Ethnicity:White / Caucasian
Zodiac Sign:Aquarius
Smoke / Drink:No / No
Children:Someday
Occupation:Adventurer, Seeker

   Evan Tanner's Schools
Caprock H S
Amarillo,Texas
Graduated: 1989
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
 

1986 to 1989



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   Evan Tanner's Blurbs
About me:

Believe in yourself. Believe in your own potential for greatness. Believe that you can change the world. It is something that is within each of us. Believe in the Power of One

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College dropout, adventurer, seeker, traveler, ditch digger, dishwasher, cable tech, concrete worker, steel worker, salad prep, busboy, ski resort security, ski resort rental shop technician. I've worked in a slaughter house. I've been a landscaper. I've done drywall, tile, countertops, wood flooring, roofing. I have been a plumber, worked as a bottle collector at a bar, a bouncer, a doorman, a head of a security team. I have been a basket room clerk, a carpenter, a framer building beach houses, a truss builder. I've lived on a farm. I've lived in the city. I've earned money mowing lawns, selling on ebay, and fighting. A teacher, a trainer, and a coach sometimes. There was a time when I was younger that I didn't know any better than to be a liar, a cheater, and a thief. I have since learned to despise those things. I have had great friendships. I have had great loves. I have been a lover, I have been a son, a brother, and a friend. And I was once a world champion.

The story of my fighting began ten years ago. On my travels, I passed though my hometown of Amarillo, Texas. There was a promoter there putting on shootfighting shows. I was out adventuring at the time, collecting stories that I would be able to tell my future children and grand children. I thought being in a shootfighting event would be a really interesting story, and it would be one more adventure under my belt. I didn't really have anything to prove, I was on a peaceful path. I just wanted the adventure and the story. I signed up for the next show. I planned on fighting just once. I had no desire to continue beyond that. Fighing was definitely no dream of mine. I didn't know anything about fighting, so I bought some Gracie Jiu Jitsu technique videos and began learning. My friend and I would sit there in the livingroom in front of the TV studying techniques. Then we would push the coffee table and the couch to the side and spar. That is how I first began to learn how to fight. I signed up for the heavyweight tournament that was being held at the next show. Although I only weighed about 190 pounds, I thought what better challenge than to fight the biggest, meanest, toughest guys in the area. I fought three times that first night. I won the tournament. I was satisfied. I was done. That was enough. I had the adventure, and I had my story. I was ready to go back to the path of peace, and move on to other adventures. That would have been the end of my fighting, but one day I got a call from the promoter. I was offered a shot at the heavyweight title belt. It was another chance at an interesting story I couldn't pass up.

I've been fighting ever since. It's not who I am, it's not how I define myself. It's just something I do. There are many other things I could be, many other paths I could be walking, but fighting is what the fates put before me. There is an ultimate purpose to it.

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The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

Impossible

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact; It is an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration; It is a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

Richard Bullock

Who I'd like to meet:
Gandhi, Alexander the Great, Martin Luther King, Aristotle, Siddhartha Gautama, Malcom X, the Dalai Lama, Socrates, Augustus, Tom Hanks, Cyrus the Great, Plato, Einstein, Shakira :), Jesus, Chief Joseph, Bill Gates, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Queen Boudica, Vincent Van Gogh, Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, Musashi, Napoleon, William Wallace, Tupac Shakur, Mohammad, Lao-Tzu, Nelson Mandela, Lawrence of Arabia, Pablo Neruda, Eminem, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Thomas Jefferson, Alfred Nobel, Karl Marx Norah Jones Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, William Shakespeare, Cary Grant, Cleopatra, Jim Morrison, Leonardo Da Vinci, Samuel Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Khufu, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Victoria, the inventor of My Space (is that Tom?), the guys from South Park, and SpongeBob SquarePants. Johnny Cash.

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Tussle Fight Gear

Tussle Fight Gear



Aug 31 2008 8:21 PM

Thanks for the add bud!
rekliner

kevin kline



Aug 31 2008 6:17 AM

dude evan i can't tell you the amount of respect i have for you. you probly wont read this you probly have like a secretary or something do that for you but i just want you to know that not only as a fighter and a champion but as a person seeking out lifes quests i think you are amazing. i look at your pictures and envy how you live your life. keep doin what your doin and keep entertainin us with your blogs cause we love readen them.
much love!
adam

Adam Allsworth



Aug 30 2008 7:40 PM

why can't i find any of the team tanner shirts anymore? i like those belive in the power of ones!!! when are you gonna fight again? i always love supporting you and the underdogs!!!
contract killer

contract killer



Aug 30 2008 3:38 PM

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND
Uncle Yaya

Kyle Burgess



Aug 30 2008 3:37 PM

Just wanted to say that you are an amazing person, with one of the greatest minds.

And you have an awesome beard/hair combo

KB
SEXY BAD A$$ BITCH

KATHY willis



Aug 29 2008 5:43 PM

i just thought i'd drop you a line to wish you the best.
♡ ♥ ♡ MIKA ♡ ♥ ♡

Mika Schmeing



Aug 30 2008 7:05 AM

Jason

Jason Bray



Aug 30 2008 9:08 AM

Hey Evan, thats a pretty wicked display pic u got there man. Hope to see you fighting again soon.
Bob

Bob



Aug 25 2008 9:22 PM

Thanks alot for adding me, you're a huge inspiration to me and I wish you the best.
Sir Charles III

Chuck Faulkner



Aug 28 2008 2:50 AM

Tanner ur the man..Self taught fighter with more adventure in him then Indy Jones..You've been my fav fighter since day one..Keep it up!
Jeana©

Jeana©



Aug 27 2008 12:44 AM

HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A GREAT WEEK!!

KISS KISS
FROM ATLANTA

JEANA
Beans 'N' Motherfuckers

Seth Beans'n'motherfuckers



Aug 26 2008 3:07 AM

Oi! From Canada's west coast, Evan!!!
MaryBeth

MaryBeth



Aug 26 2008 3:41 AM

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Aug 24 2008 5:03 PM


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uplahoa-k’hdgee



Aug 24 2008 8:27 PM

Mwabituisu kwadlaha!
Betty (GS/Bingo/OYF/BS/SSM/GH/R/T/SSO)

Betty Carroll



Aug 24 2008 8:53 PM

All right Evan, seen you fight on Spike channel 8/24/08 against Justin Levens. You looked so good, another great win. It took you three minutes and 14 seconds in the first round. A fan of yours forever.
Hooligan Fight Gear™

Hooligan Fight Gear™



Aug 22 2008 1:15 AM

Michael

Michael



Aug 22 2008 5:42 AM

I wish to shake your hand one day and say I admire you sir.
Caleb

Caleb Peecher



Aug 20 2008 10:21 PM

All Along The WAtchtower!!
yeah, best song
it's my profile song 2!!
rock on
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TapouT Radio



Aug 21 2008 8:13 AM





Tommorrow Night - Thursday Aug 21st 6PM PST

CageSide Live guests are:

Brian Bowles - an impressive WEC Bantam Weight currently ranked number 3 in the world by Sherdog. In WEC 35 Bowles defeated Damacio Page by guillotine in the first round. Bowles has yet to enter 3rd round in his professional career.

Jon Jones - a young Light Heavyweight fighter who's first pro fight was April 12th this year and already since he has built a 6-0 record and is coming off an impressive Unanimous Decision Victory in UFC 87.

Gabe Ruediger - Former WEC Lightweight Champion and TUF 5 Alumni

Blake Bowman – fighter on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra

and special guest Jason Weiner – Fighting4Kids charity event promoter
Jonathan

Jonathan Friedman



Aug 21 2008 4:14 AM

I love reading ur blogs man. Keep up the great work.
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Dedicate Clothing



Aug 21 2008 4:27 AM

Thanks for the add, Good luck in the future.

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Jeremey

Jeremey



Aug 20 2008 4:12 AM

Huck

Joseph Huckobey



Aug 19 2008 8:22 PM

I finished Calculus! That's a huge part of my battle to get where I'm going.

I hope your struggles are going as well as mine have been as of late.

Thanks for inspiration.
The italian hurricane gladiator

Italian Gladiator



Aug 19 2008 10:01 PM

how are you evan
have perfect day, bye
mauro italy
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