Collector profile “The Beast”

Brock Lesnar

Lesnar's cards cover three sports. His rookie is a 2002 Fleer WWE card, he has 2004 football RCs from his Vikings camp, and 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #81 shows his UFC debut against Frank Mir. For UFC collectors the core run is Round 1 #81, Round 2 #69 and the Round 2 FA-BL autograph, which Cardboard Connection names as his first. After that come the 2010 Leaf multi-signers with Fedor, Carwin and Velasquez, and a 2024 Topps Chrome Main Event auto /150.

2002Rookie year

#19Rookie card

20Key cards

UFC debutFebruary 2, 2008 · UFC 81
DivisionsHeavyweight
StatusRetired · WWE (as of Sept 2026)
FromWebster, South Dakota

Rookie card

2002 Fleer WWE Raw vs. SmackDown! #19 Brock Lesnar — front

#19

The rookie

#19

Rookie card

2002 Fleer WWE Raw vs. SmackDown! #19

Lesnar's first mainstream trading card, from a Fleer set released 24 July 2002, four months after his WWE main-roster debut (18 March 2002). It's a Raw Edition card showing him lifting an opponent. The same set has a second Lesnar card, #86, with The Rock.

Commonly misidentified

Royal Rumble #4 is often called 'the' Lesnar rookie. It is RC-flagged but came later than Raw vs. SmackDown #19. UFC sellers label 2009 Round 1 #81 and Round 2 #69 'RC'; both are MMA rookies, not his first cards. The printed facsimile signature on #19 gets mistaken for a real autograph.

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Key Lesnar cards

20 cards chosen for significance, not completeness; autographs and numbered cards follow below.

2002 Fleer WWE Royal Rumble #4 Brock Lesnar — front

2002 Fleer WWE Royal Rumble #4 Rookie

2004 Leaf Rookies & Stars (football) #155 Brock Lesnar — front

2004 Leaf Rookies & Stars (football) #155 Rookie

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #81 Brock Lesnar / Frank Mir — front

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #81 Rookie

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #69 Brock Lesnar — front

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #69 Rookie

Card history

Cardboard Connection says 'Brock Lesnar's first appearance on cardboard came in 2002 Fleer WWE Raw vs. Smackdown'. TCDB flags both that set's #19 and 2002 Fleer Royal Rumble #4 as rookie cards. Fleer's WWE sets also gave him early event-used memorabilia cards: a Royal Rumble event-worn shirt in 2002, and Aggression mat and shirt cards and WrestleMania XIX mat cards in 2003.

His 2004 try-out with the Minnesota Vikings produced four football rookie cards: Leaf Rookies & Stars #155, its Longevity version /999, Playoff Honors #173 /425 and Upper Deck Sweet Spot #203 /999. Slam Wrestling reported the Playoff Honors release in October 2004, noting 425 copies plus 100 parallels.

Cardboard Connection says 'the first Brock Lesnar MMA cards are in 2009 Topps UFC Round 1' and that Round 2 'had his first autographs', with Press Pass Fusion signatures arriving around the same time. It also warns that Lesnar 'has a surprisingly very limited amount of legitimate signed material', so buyers should take extra care with uncertified autographs.

Lesnar signed more for UFC-era products in 2010: Topps UFC Series 4 (a new FA-BL autograph and a Thoughts From The Boss dual with Dana White /25), Knockout (a dual mat autograph with Frank Mir /10) and unlicensed Leaf MMA duals and quads with Fedor, Carwin and Velasquez. The 2011 Moment of Truth Elite Skills autograph followed. After that, his next UFC-licensed signature on our list is the 2024 Topps Chrome UFC Main Event Autograph, issued after Topps regained the licence.

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Autographs

11 certified autographs in the archive.

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #FA-BL Brock Lesnar — front

2009Topps UFC Round 2 #FA-BL Auto

SS-BL 2009

Brock Lesnar

2009 Press Pass Fusion

Photograph to come

2009Press Pass Fusion #SS-BL Auto

TFB-WL 2010

Brock Lesnar / Dana White

2010 Topps UFC (Series 4)

Photograph to come

2010Topps UFC (Series 4) #TFB-WL Auto/25

2010 Leaf MMA #AU-BL1 Brock Lesnar — front

2010Leaf MMA #AU-BL1 Auto

Q-ECLV 2010

Brock Lesnar / Fedor Emelianenko / Shane Carwin / Cain Velasquez

2010 Leaf MMA

Photograph to come

2010Leaf MMA #Q-ECLV Auto

FE1/BL1 2010

Fedor Emelianenko / Brock Lesnar

2010 Leaf MMA

Photograph to come

2010Leaf MMA #FE1/BL1 Auto

MEA-BLE 2024

Brock Lesnar

2024 Topps Chrome UFC

Photograph to come

2024Topps Chrome UFC #MEA-BLE Auto/150

BABL 2009

Brock Lesnar

2009 Topps UFC Round 2

Photograph to come

2009Topps UFC Round 2 #BABL Auto/25

2010 Topps UFC (Series 4) #FA-BL — Brock Lesnar — front

2010Topps UFC (Series 4) #FA-BL Auto

DAFM-LM 2010

Brock Lesnar / Frank Mir

2010 Topps UFC Knockout

Photograph to come

2010Topps UFC Knockout #DAFM-LM AutoRelic/10

ESA-BL 2011

Brock Lesnar

2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth

Photograph to come

2011Topps UFC Moment of Truth #ESA-BL Auto

Numbered & parallels

Serial-numbered cards and parallels with their own record.

#173 2004

Brock Lesnar

2004 Playoff Honors (football)

Photograph to come

2004Playoff Honors (football) #173 Rookie/425

2009eTopps (MMA) #1 /999

#81 2009

Brock Lesnar / Frank Mir

2009 Topps UFC Round 1

Photograph to come

2009Topps UFC Round 1 #81 Silver /288

2004 Upper Deck Sweet Spot (football) #203 — Brock Lesnar — front

2004Upper Deck Sweet Spot (football) #203 Rookie/999

Card eras

2002–2004

WWE and NFL rookies

Fleer's 2002 Raw vs. SmackDown #19 and Royal Rumble #4 are both RC-flagged. The 2004 football rookies (Leaf Rookies & Stars, Playoff Honors /425, Sweet Spot /999) date from his Vikings camp.

2009

Topps UFC arrives

Round 1 #81 shows his UFC debut. Round 2 adds base #69, his first autograph (FA-BL, Red Ink /25), Bloodlines and Greats of the Game inserts, and there's also an eTopps /999 and a Press Pass Fusion autograph.

2010–2011

Champion-era autos and relics

Series 4 gives him base #82, an autograph, Ultimate Gear relics and a Thoughts From The Boss dual auto with Dana White /25. Leaf MMA adds signatures with Fedor, Carwin and Velasquez, and 2011 Finest and Moment of Truth follow.

2024

Chrome signature

2024 Topps Chrome UFC includes him only as a Main Event Autograph (MEA-BLE), with a base version /150 and colour parallels down to a 1/1 Superfractor.

Sets

Where Lesnar's key cards come from.

20022002 Fleer WWE Raw vs. SmackDown!1 key card
20022002 Fleer WWE Royal Rumble1 key card
20042004 Leaf Rookies & Stars (football)1 key card
20042004 Playoff Honors (football)1 key card
20042004 Upper Deck Sweet Spot (football)1 key card
20092009 Topps UFC Round 12 key cards
20092009 Topps UFC Round 23 key cards
20092009 Press Pass Fusion1 key card
20092009 eTopps (MMA)1 key card
20102010 Topps UFC (Series 4)2 key cards
20102010 Leaf MMA3 key cards
20102010 Topps UFC Knockout1 key card
20112011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth1 key card
20242024 Topps Chrome UFC1 key card

Buying & wanted

Wanted by FightCardboard

012002 Fleer WWE Raw vs. SmackDown #19 in PSA 10
022009 Topps UFC Round 1 #81 Lesnar / Mir, plus its Silver /288
032009 Topps UFC Round 2 Autographs Red Ink #FA-BL /25
042010 Leaf MMA Showdowns Quad Autographs #Q-ECLV (Emelianenko / Carwin / Lesnar / Velasquez)

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Research

Rookie Cards

Brock Lesnar's Rookie Card Is a WWE Card

Three sports, several RC-flagged cards. The first one came from Fleer in 2002.

September 21, 2026

Brock Lesnar's Rookie Card Is a WWE Card

Card Guides

Fedor's Early Cards: A Collector's Guide

No Octagon, no Topps UFC rookie. What Fedor has instead is a Japanese PRIDE set from 2006, a Leaf release from 2010, and a genuine argument over which came first in collectors' minds.

September 21, 2026

Fedor's Early Cards: A Collector's Guide

Sets

Why 2009 Topps UFC Matters

Two products, released seven months apart, that hold the first UFC-licensed cards of almost every name from the sport's first era.

September 21, 2026

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Brock Lesnar's rookie card: 2002 Fleer WWE Raw vs. SmackDown! #19 — Brock Lesnar.

Cardboard Connection says Lesnar's 'first appearance on cardboard came in 2002 Fleer WWE Raw vs. Smackdown'. TCDB flags #19 RC, and SportsCardsPro lists it as [Rookie]. The set came out on 24 July 2002, before 2002 Fleer WWE Absolute Divas #49 (with Paul Heyman, 2 October 2002) and Royal Rumble #4 (December 2002), per WrestlingTradingCards.com. Royal Rumble #4 also carries RC flags on TCDB and SportsCardsPro, which makes it his second RC. For his MMA cards alone, the first card is 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #81 (TCDB RC flag; Cardboard Connection: 'The first Brock Lesnar MMA cards are in 2009 Topps UFC Round 1').