Why this card matters
Card #1 in the 2026 Season Ticket checklist, released August 5, 2026 — Panini handing the lead slot to the man who had just become the inaugural PFL heavyweight champion by submitting Renan Ferreira in Lyon. The jump from #16 in 2025 to #1 in 2026 is the cleanest marker in his card history of what the title did to his standing in the set.
Identification
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- Card #1, the first card in the 2026 Season Ticket base checklist
- Listed as 'Vadim Nemkov – Heavyweight'
- 2026 parallels use 'Fireworks' naming (Red Fireworks /299, Blue Fireworks /199) where 2025 used plain colour names — a quick way to tell the two years apart
- Base checklist runs to 100 with #66 not issued
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Checklist Insider — 2026 Panini Contenders PFL Checklist, Set Info
Checklist Center — 2026 Panini Contenders PFL MMA Card Checklist
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2026 Panini Contenders PFL #1 — Vadim Nemkov.