Why this card matters
The first licensed Bas Rutten card in existence, and it arrives ten years after he won the UFC heavyweight title at UFC 20 and vacated it. 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. Everything a Rutten collector builds starts here.
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
| 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 card. |
| There is an earlier Pancrase or Japanese Rutten card. | Nothing of the kind turned up. SportsCardsPro's database returns zero results for 'Pancrase' and no checklist site consulted carries a Pancrase product. |
Disputed
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.
Parallels
Population & market
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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')
Available copies
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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