MMA will never again know a man like Evan Tanner.
Director Gerard Roxburgh condensed more than 150 hours of footage into a
feature-length documentary on the life of the fighter, the adventurer,
the philosopher and the alcoholic – the man who passed away due to
dehydration, alone in a Southern California desert, on Sept. 8, 2008.
MMAjunkie.com’s Danny Acosta looks deeper at the film, titled “‘Once I Was a Champion.”