In boxing, one of the most prominent sports memorabilia collectors is Bob Pace, who sells everything from fight posters to autographs.

There are fight posters, framed copies of gambling licenses, showgirl costumes and about 60 tantalizing plaques that commemorate men and women who helped build Las Vegas but that leave some visitors thirsting for more information about these larger-than-life figures.

Grady yanked the fight poster down.

Trainer, however, regards the behavior of the Lalonde camp - he cites their insistence on having first billing on fight posters as typical of their small-mindedness - as revealing a fighter overwhelmed by the magnitude of the first big bout he has been in.

It's official and there's a fight poster to prove it.

As a youngster, Hagler tacked to his wall a fight poster of Floyd Patterson, the heavyweight champion, that he had removed from a neighborhood telephone pole.

IN other boxing eras, the names on the fight posters were enough to sell tickets: Ali-Frazier, Marciano-Walcott, Louis-Schmeling, Dempsey-Tunney.

The crowd, including trainers and a few downtown music buffs, sat in folding chairs on the concrete floor in a space lined with old fight posters and battered weight benches.

In the ramshackle gym, fighters pounded taped-up heavy bags under a crumbling ceiling, with peeling fight posters taped to the wall.

Sitting in his dimly lighted, dorm-room-tight office, a bright yellow fight poster featuring Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton behind him, he was all smiles, giddy even.