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2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines #139 Conor McGregor — front
#139
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Conor McGregor
Rookie Card

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

  • The answer2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines #139
  • SubjectConor McGregor
  • Year2013
  • ManufacturerTopps
  • ConfidenceVerified
  • Print runUnknown — not estimated
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Why this is the rookie

TCDB lists McGregor's earliest cards as 2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines (released December 2013), and #139 is the only card of his flagged RC. Cardboard Connection ('McGregor received his first MMA cards in 2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines'), Card Review Club ('A 2013 RC'), Short Story Guide ('2013 Bloodlines is his rookie and 1st auto') and Topps Ripped all agree. No Cage Warriors or other pre-UFC trading cards were found for him on TCDB or in any guide, so collectors have no earlier card to count.

The McGregor rookie card. Bloodlines was a high-end product with a hit in every pack rather than a mass-market flagship set, and the card shows him as an unknown featherweight fresh off the Brimage knockout, before Aldo, Mendes or the belts.

Commonly misidentified

2014 Topps UFC Champions #32 is sold by some eBay sellers as a 'rookie' or 'second year rookie', but TCDB gives it no RC flag and the guides agree the rookie is 2013 Bloodlines #139. The 2013 Bloodlines FA-CM autograph and BL-CM insert are rookie-year cards that get lumped in as 'rookies' (eBay's catalogue tags the FA-CM 'AU, RC'), but #139 is the only McGregor card TCDB flags RC. TCDB's McGregor page also lists a 1922 Godfrey Phillips 'McGregor' card, which appears to be a different person (a footballer), not an earlier Conor McGregor card.

2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines #139 Conor McGregor — front
Front
2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines #139 Conor McGregor — back
Back
Front and back. Click either side to enlarge.

Identifying it

  • Card #139 in the 150-card 2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines base set
  • Passport-inspired Bloodlines design (per Card Review Club)
  • Action photo from his UFC debut vs. Marcus Brimage (per Cardboard Connection)
  • Base version is unnumbered; serial-numbered versions are the Flag, Black, Ruby Red and Platinum parallels

What gets mistaken for it

What you'll readWhat's true
2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines Fighter Autographs #FA-CM is the rookie.Rookie-year and first autograph, but it's an insert autograph rather than the base rookie. Collectors call it his 'rookie auto'.
2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines - Bloodlines insert #BL-CM is the rookie.Same product and year, but an insert, not the base card. Card Review Club groups it with his rookie-year cards.
2014 Topps UFC Champions #32 is the rookie.Released in September 2014, nine months after Bloodlines. Sold on eBay as a 'second year rookie'. TCDB doesn't flag it RC.
Cage Warriors-era cards are the rookie.None found. TCDB, Cardboard Connection and the other guides list no pre-UFC McGregor trading cards.

Parallels

Base
—
Unnumbered
Flag
/188
High confidence
Black
/25
Probable
Ruby Red
/8
Probable
Platinum
1/1
Probable

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.

Verified

Conor McGregor's rookie card: 2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines #139 — Conor McGregor.

TCDB lists McGregor's earliest cards as 2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines (released December 2013), and #139 is the only card of his flagged RC. Cardboard Connection ('McGregor received his first MMA cards in 2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines'), Card Review Club ('A 2013 RC'), Short Story Guide ('2013 Bloodlines is his rookie and 1st auto') and Topps Ripped all agree. No Cage Warriors or other pre-UFC trading cards were found for him on TCDB or in any guide, so collectors have no earlier card to count.

Verified

2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines #139 — Conor McGregor.

Uncertain

Disputed detail on 2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines #139.

Print run of the Black parallel: TCDB lists Black #139 as SN25 and COMC lists it as /25, while Cardboard Connection's set page and Card Review Club give Black as /88. (TCDB lists the Bloodlines BL-CM insert's Black parallel as /88, which may be where the confusion comes from.) Release date: TCDB says 13 Dec 2013, Cardboard Connection says 18 Dec 2013.

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