Why this card matters
His first UFC-licensed card, ten years after he won the UFC heavyweight title at UFC 20 and vacated it. It is not his first card of any kind: 1995 BBM Pro Wrestling #114 precedes it by fourteen years and the 2008 Donruss Americana II Ring Kings cards by a year. Round 2 is the set that also holds the Jon Jones rookie, so the product is already picked over; Rutten sits in the fighter-portrait half of the 150-card base rather than among the bout cards.
Identification
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- Card number 51 in the 150-card Round 2 base set
- Portrait-style fighter card, not one of Round 2's two-fighter bout cards
- Parallel ladder runs Gold, Silver /188, Bronze /88, Ruby /8; an unnumbered base card is the plain version
- Card #50 in the same checklist is Forrest Griffin and #52 is Matt Riddle — useful for spotting a mis-numbered listing
- No rookie logo is printed on it, and it is not his earliest card — 1995 BBM Pro Wrestling #114 and the 2008 Ring Kings cards come first
| Rutten's rookie is in 2009 Topps UFC Round 1. | Round 1's fighter cards are built around UFC debuts and Rutten is not on that checklist. Round 2 #51 is his first UFC-licensed card — and not his first card at all. |
| 2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #51 is the first Bas Rutten card in existence. | It is his first UFC-licensed card only. 1995 BBM Pro Wrestling #114 precedes it by fourteen years, and 2008 Donruss Americana II Ring Kings #RK-BR /500, released 15 July 2008, precedes it by a year. |
| There is no earlier Pancrase or Japanese Rutten card. | There are several. 1995 BBM Pro Wrestling #114 is the earliest documented, followed by dedicated BBM Pancrase issues at #183 in 1996, #133 in 1997 and #P19 in 1998 BBM Pancrase Hybrid Wrestling. |
Disputed
Rookie status only, and it is now one-sided: eBay's catalogue flags the card RC while the card has no printed designation and three earlier licensed issues exist. No source gives a print run for the Gold parallel, so it is recorded without one.
Parallels
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SportsCardsPro — 2009 Topps UFC Round 2 checklist — Bas Rutten #51 and its Bronze /88, Gold, Ruby /8 and Silver /188 parallels
SportsCardsPro — Bas Rutten #51 — 2009 Topps UFC Round 2 (card page; 'Is Rookie Card: No')
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2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #51 — Bas Rutten.
- SportsCardsPro2009 Topps UFC Round 2 checklist — Bas Rutten #51 and its Bronze /88, Gold, Ruby /8 and Silver /188 parallels, accessed September 23, 2026
- SportsCardsProBas Rutten #51 — 2009 Topps UFC Round 2 (card page; 'Is Rookie Card: No'), accessed September 23, 2026
- eBay2009 Topps UFC Round 2 - Bas Rutten #51 (RC) — catalogue page, accessed September 23, 2026
Rookie status only: eBay says RC, SportsCardsPro says no. No source gives a print run for the Gold parallel, so it is recorded without one.
- SportsCardsPro2009 Topps UFC Round 2 checklist — Bas Rutten #51 and its Bronze /88, Gold, Ruby /8 and Silver /188 parallels, accessed September 23, 2026
- SportsCardsProBas Rutten #51 — 2009 Topps UFC Round 2 (card page; 'Is Rookie Card: No'), accessed September 23, 2026
- eBay2009 Topps UFC Round 2 - Bas Rutten #51 (RC) — catalogue page, accessed September 23, 2026