Why this card matters
His densest product year on one card. Bloodlines arrived in December 2012, five months after the UFC 148 rematch with Anderson Silva, and gave Sonnen a serial-numbered hard signature at a point when his only other Topps autographs were the 2010 flagship #FA-CS, the 2011 Finest dual and the 2011 Moment of Truth #CS-CS. It is the most accessible serial-numbered Sonnen signature of the Topps era, and the one most often mixed up with the Knockout autographs issued eight months earlier.
Identification
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- Catalogued as #CS in the Bloodlines autograph checklist, serial numbered to 88.
- His Bloodlines base card is #142; companion hits in the same product are #AFM-CS /25 (autographed jumbo fight mat) and #GCDA-SB /25 (Global Conflict dual with Michael Bisping).
- The year on the back is what separates it from 2012 Topps UFC Knockout (6 April 2012), which also codes his Fighter Autograph #CS and whose Autographed Premium Pieces relic #APP-CS is also numbered to 88.
- SportsCardsPro's 45-card Bloodlines Autographs set list uses an A- prefix throughout (A-AB to A-YA) and does not include Sonnen, so the two catalogues do not agree on where this signature sits.
| A '#CS Chael Sonnen /88' 2012 Topps autograph is the Bloodlines card. | 2012 Topps UFC Knockout, released 6 April 2012, also codes his Fighter Autograph #CS and carries an Autographed Premium Pieces relic #APP-CS numbered to 88. The product name on the back decides which card a listing means. |
| The Bloodlines autograph is coded A-CS, matching the rest of the subset. | No A-CS appears in the 45-card Bloodlines Autographs checklist SportsCardsPro enumerates, which runs A-AB to A-YA and contains no Sonnen. Where his Bloodlines signature is catalogued, it is catalogued as a bare #CS. |
| Bloodlines gave Sonnen a Countrymen quad autograph book card. | Cardboard Connection's Bloodlines checklist lists four Sonnen entries — base #142, autograph #CS /88, #AFM-CS /25 and #GCDA-SB /25 — and no Countrymen quad among them. |
Disputed
Which product this signature belongs to is unresolved. Cardboard Connection's 2012 Bloodlines checklist lists a Sonnen autograph coded #CS and numbered to 88; SportsCardsPro's set list for the same 45-card Bloodlines Autographs subset enumerates every card from A-AB to A-YA and contains no Sonnen. Meanwhile 2012 Topps UFC Knockout, released 6 April 2012, demonstrably carries Sonnen signatures coded with bare initials — Fighter Autographs #CS, Autographed Premium Pieces #APP-CS /88, Autographed Fighter Relics #AFG-CS, Notable Nicknames #NN-CS /25 and a dual with Brian Stann #DA-SS /10 — which is where a '#CS /88' Sonnen autograph could equally sit. The record is kept under Bloodlines because that is what the fuller checklist states, but the /88 print run is common to both products and no source reconciles them.
Parallels
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Cardboard Connection — 2012 Topps UFC Bloodlines checklist — Bloodlines Autograph CS /88
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2012 Topps UFC Bloodlines — Fighter Autographs #CS — Chael Sonnen.
Single source. Cardboard Connection's checklist is the only one reached for the Bloodlines autograph numbering, and its reading of the Countrymen quad #CQA-SCHC names Sonnen, Randy Couture, Matt Hughes and Phil Davis, while FightCardboard's existing Dan Henderson research records a Countrymen quad with Sonnen, Hughes, Couture and Henderson. The fourth subject of that book card is unresolved.