Why this card matters
The first Gina Carano card, issued while she was still EliteXC's biggest draw and a year before the Cyborg fight. Ring Kings was a 30-card combat-sports insert inside a celebrity product, so she shares the checklist with Couture, St-Pierre, Bas Rutten and Bruce Buffer rather than with a fighter set. It is also the only Carano issue that predates the Topps UFC era entirely.
Identification
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- Ring Kings insert, not part of the Americana II base set — Americana II itself has no MMA content beyond this insert.
- No UFC, EliteXC or Strikeforce marks anywhere on the card.
- Numbered RK-GC. Jeff Allender's checklist lists the insert 1-30 and puts Carano tenth, which is a position in that listing rather than the number on the card.
- Serial numbered to 500.
- Two further documented variants share the RK-GC number: a Cut Signatures parallel /100 and a National Convention promo.
Disputed
Jeff Allender's checklist numbers the Ring Kings insert 1-30 and lists Carano tenth, which is a checklist position rather than the number on the card; Cardboard Connection gives '#GC' and catalogue and market listings render it RK-GC. RK-GC is recorded. Whether her signature on the signed versions is on-card or on a sticker is not stated by any published source.
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Population & market
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Jeff Allender's House of Checklists (nslists.com) — 2008 Donruss Americana II checklist — Ring Kings
Cardboard Connection — Gina Carano Cards, Rookie Cards and Autographed Memorabilia Guide
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2008 Donruss Americana II Ring Kings #RK-GC — Gina Carano.
The card number is rendered two ways: Allender says 10 within a 1–30 Ring Kings run, Cardboard Connection says #GC and eBay sellers write RK-GC. The /500 serial number is carried over from the archive's existing Americana II Ring Kings records (an eBay-confirmed /500 Rashad Evans copy) and was not independently confirmed for the Carano card, so it is recorded as probable rather than verified.