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2017 Topps UFC Knockout #88 Alexa Grasso — front
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Alexa Grasso
Rookie Card

Which card is the rookie, how to tell it, and what gets mistaken for it.

  • The answer2017 Topps UFC Knockout #88
  • SubjectAlexa Grasso
  • Year2017
  • ManufacturerTopps
  • ConfidenceHigh confidence
  • Print runUnknown — not estimated
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Why this is the rookie

MMA Rookies designates 2017 Topps UFC Knockout #88 Grasso's rookie card and files 2017 Topps UFC Chrome #85 under 'Other Rookies', which matches the release order: Cardboard Connection dates Knockout to 10 May 2017 and Chrome to 20 September 2017, and confirms both card numbers. Collectibles.com gives 2017 as her rookie year with Topps UFC Knockout as her earliest set. Chrome #85 is the card the market chases because of its refractor ladder, but it is the second card of the same rookie year.

Her first card, six months after her UFC debut and four and a half years into her pro career — there is nothing from the Invicta run to compete with it. Released 10 May 2017 in a 100-card base set, it beats the better-known Chrome #85 to market by four months, which is why date-order collectors call this the rookie even though the Chrome is what trades.

Commonly misidentified

Chrome #85 refractor parallels are routinely sold as 'the rookie' when they are parallels of the same card. Listings also present privately signed Chrome #85 cards with a Beckett or PSA authentication COA as autograph rookies — they are not certified issues and should not be confused with #MA-AG.

Identifying it

  • Base card #88 in the 100-card 2017 Topps UFC Knockout set
  • The base card is unnumbered; every parallel is serial numbered, so an unnumbered copy is the base
  • Green /215, Blue /99, Red /25 and Gold 1/1 are the only base parallels in the product
  • Grasso is a strawweight here — this predates her 2020 move to flyweight

What gets mistaken for it

What you'll readWhat's true
Being sold as the Chrome rookie.this is the paper Knockout base card, a different product from 2017 Topps UFC Chrome #85

Parallels

Base
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Unnumbered
Gold
1/1
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Red
/25
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Blue
/99
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Green
/215
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Card milestones

Five separate questions, kept separate. How these are defined.

The evidence behind each
  • 2017Earliest licensed card — Cardboard Connection's 2017 Topps UFC Knockout page gives a 10 May 2017 release, a 100-card base set and '88 Alexa Grasso'; Collectibles.com's register shows 2017 Topps UFC Knockout as her earliest listed set; MMA Rookies opens her entry with the same card.
  • 2017First MMA card — Same sources; Invicta FC held no trading-card licence during her 2014–2016 run there, and no pre-2017 issue of her appears in any catalogued checklist.
  • 2017First UFC card — Cardboard Connection checklist and release date; her 5 November 2016 UFC debut came too late for the 2016 Topps checklists.
  • 2017First certified autograph — MMA Rookies records '2017 Topps Museum Collection UFC — Museum Autographs #MA-AG' as both her first autograph and her first on-card autograph. Cardboard Connection's 2017 Museum Collection page dates the product to 28 February 2018 and lists MA-AG in its 55-card Museum Autographs checklist; SportsCardsPro carries 'Alexa Grasso [Copper] #MA-AG /25' under the same product. Topps reused the code MA-AG in the 2018-branded Museum Collection, which shipped 28 November 2018, nine months later.
  • 2017Recognized rookie card — MMA Rookies marks it as her rookie card and files 2017 Topps UFC Chrome #85 under 'Other Rookies'; Collectibles.com states she 'debuted as a Rookie in 2017' and lists Topps UFC Knockout as her earliest set.

Grading & population

Population figures will be taken directly from the grading companies and dated when they are. None are shown yet.

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Every factual claim on this page, the evidence behind it, and an honest confidence level. Where sources disagree the disagreement is kept, not quietly resolved.

High confidence

Alexa Grasso's rookie card: 2017 Topps UFC Knockout #88 — Alexa Grasso.

2017 Topps UFC Knockout #88 is the earliest Alexa Grasso card any reachable source records, and it is a UFC-licensed Topps issue released 10 May 2017 — four months before 2017 Topps UFC Chrome. Cardboard Connection's 2017 Topps UFC Knockout page gives the 10 May 2017 date, a 100-card base set and Grasso at #88; SportsCardsPro carries the same card as 'Alexa Grasso #88, 2017 Topps UFC Knockout'. Collectibles.com states flatly that 'Alexa Grasso debuted as a Rookie in 2017' and lists nothing earlier, and Sports Card Investor's guide starts at 2017 Topps Chrome UFC. Nothing exists from the Invicta years to displace it.

High confidence

2017 Topps UFC Knockout #88 — Alexa Grasso.

Uncertain

Rookie status only. SportsCardsPro says it is not a rookie card; eBay and dealer listings call it an RC. No card database entry settles the flag.

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