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LAS VEGAS (KSNV News3LV) -- November 6th marks the anniversary of an odd incident which happened here in Las Vegas in 1993.

Even if you weren't living in Southern Vevada at the time, there's a pretty good chance you heard about "Fan Man" on the evening news.

It happened at Caesars Palace, where Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe were in a rematch for the undisputed heavyweight title that Bowe had won the year before.

As the seventh round got underway, a paraglider began a spiraling descent toward the ring.

Then with 1:20 left in the round, Henderson resident James Miller descended on a fan powered paraglider, and came crashing into the ropes.

The crowd didn't take kindly to the interruption one bit, and immediately started to punch and kick Miller. They beat him like a dusty rug.

Miller was knocked unconscious, then taken to the hospital where he was treated, released... and arrested on a charge of dangerous flying. But he was proud of the stunt.

"That I'm Fan Man, and I'm the man with the fan," Miller told News-3 with a grin.

Miller tried the same thing at a Broncos-Raiders game a couple of months later, but was chased away by National Guard helicopters.

He also paraglided into Buckingham Palace and spent 42 days in a British prison for it.

In 2002, suffering from a number of physical problems, Miller took his own life in the Alaska wilderness at age 38.