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Last night they showed on ESPN the Holyfield vs Bowe II. The rematch of "The Fan Man". It was a very freightening thing to see if you were near where he (the fan man) landed.

It was also a great fight. One of the very best fights of the 1990s. This time, Evander fought more tactically and boxed more. Reports say that Bowe was not in great shape, which IT COULD BE TRUE, and lost THE HUNGER after his thrilling victory over Evander in the first meeting.

I cannot believe that 15 years has passed since that fight. It brought to me, lots of great memories, when BOXING was still seen just like football, baseball or basketball.

Who won the fight in your BIAS view.

I haven't scored it in awhile but I had Evander by 2 points to my recollection, 115-113. Holyfield did really well in the middle rounds, but Bowe came back strong in the end as Holyfield's tank was near empty.

I think the excitement of the fight is underrated, but I wouldn't call it one of the best of the 90's. Their first fight was more fun. In my biased view, Holyfield edged it. On my scorecard (three times!), I had it for Bowe by a point.

I loved there first fight. Every time I watch it I try willing Holyfield to win...but some how
Bowe keeps beating him.
Holyfield vs Bowe 1 was really the fight that got me into boxing, I used to watch it over
and over. It was also the first one that I ever scored for myself.

I think the rematch was great and would have loved to see how Holy would have
been thereafter with Steward in his corner. I had Holyfield winning, close though.

Fan man was a special weird man. Truely a 1990s moment.

2nd fight was a bit dull on comparison

should never have been resumed and should have been called a no contest

this was b4 Barry Hearn's Prizefighter of course

He hand himself on a hiking trail or something didnt he ?

sad story really.

Other stunts

In January 1994, Miller flew into a Denver Broncos-Los Angeles Raiders American football game at the Coliseum in Los Angeles. He was arrested for interfering with a sporting event. After the game, Raiders defensive end Howie Long said that had Miller landed in the stands, the physical assault he received in Las Vegas would have paled in comparison as a result of Raider Nation's notorious raucousness. "Magnify that beating tenfold. That's what he would have gotten here," Long said. [4]

In February 1994, he skydived into the middle of a soccer match in Bolton, England.

A few weeks after the stunt, Miller used a powered paraglider to get on top of Buckingham Palace after painting himself green and covering his private parts with glow-in-the-dark paint. British authorities evacuated the palace in seven minutes, then came for Miller, who was arrested on the roof. They charged him with terrorism, believing he had connections with the Irish Republican Army.

"What was funny was I was trying to make a point to the Irish that they didn’t need to use violence to protest British policies," Miller told Valdez newspapers years later.

British authorities interrogated Miller in an effort to learn who had helped him. He was threatened with a life sentence but refused to reveal his accomplices.

Less than a year after his Fan Man crusade began, Miller was convicted in Great Britain of "flying without a ticket of air worthiness," fined ₤600, held in prison for forty-two days, branded an international terrorist by Interpol, and banished from the United Kingdom for life.

"When the judge said I was deported for life, I asked if my ashes could be buried in England," Miller told a Valdez newspaper. "The judge just looked at me and said, ‘No.’"

From Wikipedia

I've recently remembered about a promo of this rematch from an old VHS, on what I had seen the fight many years ago for the first time. I tried to find different versions of Bowe-Holyfield 2 in the internet, but no one had that promo. So I dug up the stockroom and found old VHS player and the cassette with the bout. Unfortunately I have no soft to convert this stuff to the today's normal format, but anyway that VHS' quality sucked, so I just recorded the promo on the phone from the screen. Now I've uploaded it, what an awesome promo-video, I saw it last many years ago, it makes me nostalgic.