The rookie
2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #55
Zuffa bought Strikeforce in March 2011 and Topps folded the roster into Moment of Truth that November — Cardboard Connection calls it 'the first UFC set to include Strikeforce fighters', naming Cyborg alongside Miesha Tate, Gilbert Melendez, Robbie Lawler and Ryan Couture. Six years into her career, this 220-card base set is where she finally appears on cardboard, as the reigning Strikeforce women's featherweight champion rather than as a UFC fighter.
Listings routinely sell the Moment of Truth Gold and Onyx /188 parallels of #55 as 'the rookie' when they are parallels of the same card. Dated-2011 Leaf Metal MMA autographs are also marketed as rookies despite the product shipping in March 2012.
- Earliest licensed card2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #55 High confidence
- First MMA card2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #55 High confidence
- First UFC card2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #55 High confidence
- First certified autograph2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth Certified Signatures #CS-CCY High confidence
- Recognized rookie card2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #55 High confidence
The evidence behind each
- 2011Earliest licensed card — Cardboard Connection's Moment of Truth page dates the release to 30 November 2011, gives a 220-card base set and states it carried 'the first Strikeforce cards in a UFC product', naming Cris Cyborg Santos among them. Collectibles.com's Cyborg register shows nothing earlier. MMA Rookies also opens her card history with this issue.
- 2011First MMA card — Cardboard Connection checklist and MMA Rookies both start her run at this card; no EliteXC, Strikeforce or Japanese-promotion card of her is catalogued anywhere reachable.
- 2011First UFC card — Cardboard Connection identifies Moment of Truth as the first UFC-licensed set to carry Strikeforce fighters; the preceding 2011 Topps UFC Title Shot (4 May 2011) covered UFC and WEC fighters only.
- 2011First certified autograph — Cardboard Connection's Moment of Truth Certified Signatures checklist (70 cards) lists CS-CCY Cris Cyborg. The 2011 Leaf Metal MMA autographs that sellers date to 2011 belong to an unlicensed product that shipped in March 2012.
- 2011Recognized rookie card — MMA Rookies' fighter vault names 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #55 her True Rookie Card and lists no other rookie cards; Cardboard Connection's checklist confirms the card and the release date, and nothing credible names an earlier or competing rookie.
Key Cyborg cards
12 cards chosen for significance, not completeness; autographs and numbered cards follow below.
Card history
Cyborg fought for six years before anyone printed her on cardboard. EliteXC and the early Strikeforce years had no card licence, and the checkable fact that kills most claims of an earlier issue is Leaf: the 100-card 2010 Leaf MMA base set and its Autographs checklist both cover Strikeforce and Japanese fighters, Gina Carano, Hitomi Akano, Sarah Kaufman and Carina Damm among them, and leave her out entirely.
Zuffa bought Strikeforce in March 2011 and Topps folded the roster into UFC Moment of Truth that November, the first UFC set to carry Strikeforce fighters. Her rookie card is base #55 in that 220-card set, released 30 November 2011 - as reigning Strikeforce women's featherweight champion, not as a UFC fighter - with Gold, Onyx /188, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 parallels, and the same product's Certified Signatures CS-CCY is her first certified autograph. MMA Rookies, the hobby's dedicated MMA rookie register, designates #55 her True Rookie Card and records no other rookie cards for her, which is why the parallels of #55 and the later Leaf autographs sold as 'rookies' are neither.
Four months later came 2012 Topps UFC Knockout #53, from a 100-card set out 6 April 2012 with Silver /188, Green /88, Red /8 and a Mat Stock 1/1 - beware that the 2019 Knockout base set puts her at #53 as well. That product is where her early hit content sits: Autographed Premium Pieces APP-CC /88, Fighter Autographs FA-CC, Notable Nicknames NN-CC /25 and Triple Thread Relics TTR-CC /36. Leaf Metal MMA, dated 2011 on the card but not shipped until 16 March 2012 and unlicensed, is where the hard-signed Cyborg autographs come from, in Base Autographs BA-CS-1 and Champions CH-CS-1, from a print run cut to 150 cases.
Then nothing for four years. Three seasons as Invicta FC featherweight champion from 2013 to 2015 produced no cards at all, Invicta having no card licence, and when she finally reached the UFC at UFC 198 on 14 May 2016 she had missed that year's Knockout release by six weeks and appears nowhere in it. Her first card as a UFC fighter is 2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection #16, from a 45-card premium set released 30 November 2016 whose Archival Autographs AA-CCY /99 are on-card. 2017 Topps UFC Fire #17 followed on 7 February 2017, thin even in its mainstream form at Red Hot /142, Blue Flame /25 and Inferno 1/1, and the 2017 Museum Collection - branded 2017 but shipped 28 February 2018 - gave her #41 alongside on-card Museum Autographs, hard-signed Framed Autographs and a Reebok logo patch autograph that is a genuine 1/1.
Her last big UFC year is 2019. Knockout on 8 May gave her base #53 with Green /175 through to a Gold 1/1 and unusually deep signed content for someone on her way out of the promotion - Knockout Autographs KA-CJ, the autograph relic KAR-CJ, a Champions autograph relic book /5 and a dual book with Holly Holm /10 - and Topps UFC Chrome on 11 September gave her the only Chrome base card she has at #69, plus the 1984 Topps Autographs 84T-CJ numbered to five, whose code is shared with the unsigned insert. Five years as Bellator featherweight champion then produced no licensed card anyone has catalogued, and she returns to cardboard only in 2025 Panini Contenders PFL, out 18 July 2025, with Season Ticket base #76, Superstar Die-Cuts #11, Supernatural #5 and a Season Ticket Signatures autograph reusing #76.
Autographs
4 certified autographs in the archive.
Card eras
EliteXC and early Strikeforce had no card licence, and the 100-card 2010 Leaf MMA base set plus its Autographs checklist — both of which cover Strikeforce and Japanese fighters — leave her out entirely.
2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth (30 November 2011) was the first UFC set to include Strikeforce fighters. Cyborg gets base #55 and, per Cardboard Connection's checklist, a Certified Signatures autograph #CS-CCY.
2012 Topps UFC Knockout (6 April 2012) gave her base #53 and a deep relic/autograph run down to Fighter Autographs FA-CC. 2011 Leaf Metal MMA, an unlicensed multi-promotion product, finally shipped 16 March 2012 with her hard-signed Base Autographs and Champions cards.
Three years as Invicta FC featherweight champion produced no cards at all; Invicta never had a trading-card licence and Topps' UFC products had no reason to carry her.
She debuted at UFC 198 in May 2016, too late for that year's Knockout release. 2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection #16 (30 November 2016) is her first card as a UFC fighter, followed by 2017 Topps UFC Fire #17 and 2017 Museum Collection #41 with on-card Museum Autographs.
As reigning UFC women's featherweight champion she is all over 2019 Topps UFC Chrome and Knockout — base #69 and #53, Fighter Autographs FA-CJ with a refractor ladder, and the 1984 Topps Autographs #84T-CJ numbered /5.
Five years as Bellator featherweight champion, from 2020 to 2024, produced no Bellator-licensed card of her in any catalogued checklist. She reappears in 2025 Panini Contenders PFL with Season Ticket base #76, Superstar Die-Cuts #11 and Season Ticket Signatures.
Rookie parallels
Sets
Where Cyborg's key cards come from.
- 20112011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth1 key card
- 20112011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth Certified Signatures1 key card
- 20112011 Leaf Metal MMA1 key card
- 20122012 Topps UFC Knockout2 key cards
- 20162016 Topps UFC Museum Collection1 key card
- 20172017 Topps UFC Fire1 key card
- 20172017 Topps Museum Collection UFC1 key card
- 20192019 Topps Chrome UFC2 key cards
- 20192019 Topps UFC Knockout1 key card
- 20252025 Panini Contenders PFL1 key card
Buying & wanted
- 012011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #55 in Ruby /8 or the Diamond 1/1 — her first card, in the scarce parallels
- 022011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth Certified Signatures #CS-CCY, her first autograph card
- 032011 Leaf Metal MMA Champions autograph #CH-CS-1, hard-signed, and its Silver /50 parallel
- 042019 Topps UFC Chrome 1984 Topps Autographs #84T-CJ numbered /5
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Cris Cyborg's rookie card: 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #55 — Cris Cyborg.
2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #55 is the earliest Cris Cyborg card any reachable source records, and it is in a UFC-licensed Topps product released 30 November 2011. Cardboard Connection's set page states Moment of Truth was 'the first UFC set to include Strikeforce fighters' and names Cris Cyborg Santos among them, listing '55 Cris Cyborg' in the base checklist; SportsCardsPro carries the same card as 'Cris Cyborg #55' in 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth with a Gold parallel. Two independent checks of the 2010 Leaf MMA base (100 cards) and 2010 Leaf MMA Autographs checklists show she is in neither, so there is no earlier MMA issue to displace it.
- 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth, accessed September 21, 2026
- SportsCardsProCris Cyborg #55 | 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsPro2010 Leaf MMA checklist (100-card base, no Cyborg), accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsPro2010 Leaf MMA Autographs checklist (no Cyborg), accessed September 22, 2026
- 2011 Leaf Metal MMA, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsProSearch result: Cris Cyborg [Gold] #55, 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth, accessed September 22, 2026
Cyborg fought for six years before anyone printed her on cardboard. EliteXC and the early Strikeforce years had no card licence, and the checkable fact that kills most claims of an earlier issue is Leaf: the 100-card 2010 Leaf MMA base set and its Autographs checklist both cover Strikeforce and Japanese fighters, Gina Carano, Hitomi Akano, Sarah Kaufman and Carina Damm among them, and leave her out entirely.
Zuffa bought Strikeforce in March 2011 and Topps folded the roster into UFC Moment of Truth that November, the first UFC set to carry Strikeforce fighters. Her rookie card is base #55 in that 220-card set, released 30 November 2011 - as reigning Strikeforce women's featherweight champion, not as a UFC fighter - with Gold, Onyx /188, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 parallels, and the same product's Certified Signatures CS-CCY is her first certified autograph. MMA Rookies, the hobby's dedicated MMA rookie register, designates #55 her True Rookie Card and records no other rookie cards for her, which is why the parallels of #55 and the later Leaf autographs sold as 'rookies' are neither.
Four months later came 2012 Topps UFC Knockout #53, from a 100-card set out 6 April 2012 with Silver /188, Green /88, Red /8 and a Mat Stock 1/1 - beware that the 2019 Knockout base set puts her at #53 as well. That product is where her early hit content sits: Autographed Premium Pieces APP-CC /88, Fighter Autographs FA-CC, Notable Nicknames NN-CC /25 and Triple Thread Relics TTR-CC /36. Leaf Metal MMA, dated 2011 on the card but not shipped until 16 March 2012 and unlicensed, is where the hard-signed Cyborg autographs come from, in Base Autographs BA-CS-1 and Champions CH-CS-1, from a print run cut to 150 cases.
Then nothing for four years. Three seasons as Invicta FC featherweight champion from 2013 to 2015 produced no cards at all, Invicta having no card licence, and when she finally reached the UFC at UFC 198 on 14 May 2016 she had missed that year's Knockout release by six weeks and appears nowhere in it. Her first card as a UFC fighter is 2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection #16, from a 45-card premium set released 30 November 2016 whose Archival Autographs AA-CCY /99 are on-card. 2017 Topps UFC Fire #17 followed on 7 February 2017, thin even in its mainstream form at Red Hot /142, Blue Flame /25 and Inferno 1/1, and the 2017 Museum Collection - branded 2017 but shipped 28 February 2018 - gave her #41 alongside on-card Museum Autographs, hard-signed Framed Autographs and a Reebok logo patch autograph that is a genuine 1/1.
Her last big UFC year is 2019. Knockout on 8 May gave her base #53 with Green /175 through to a Gold 1/1 and unusually deep signed content for someone on her way out of the promotion - Knockout Autographs KA-CJ, the autograph relic KAR-CJ, a Champions autograph relic book /5 and a dual book with Holly Holm /10 - and Topps UFC Chrome on 11 September gave her the only Chrome base card she has at #69, plus the 1984 Topps Autographs 84T-CJ numbered to five, whose code is shared with the unsigned insert. Five years as Bellator featherweight champion then produced no licensed card anyone has catalogued, and she returns to cardboard only in 2025 Panini Contenders PFL, out 18 July 2025, with Season Ticket base #76, Superstar Die-Cuts #11, Supernatural #5 and a Season Ticket Signatures autograph reusing #76.
2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #55 — Cris Cyborg.
2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth Certified Signatures #CS-CCY — Cris Cyborg.
2011 Leaf Metal MMA #BA-CS-1 — Cris Cyborg.
- 2011 Leaf Metal MMA, accessed September 22, 2026
- eBay2011 Leaf MMA Metall Autogrammkarte CRIS "CYBORG" SANTOS BA-CS-1, accessed September 22, 2026
- eBay2011 Leaf Metal MMA Champions Cris Cyborg Cyborg Santos #CH-CS-1 Rookie Auto RC, accessed September 22, 2026
- eBay2011 Leaf Metal MMA Silver Autograph Cris Cyborg (Santos) /50 PSA 10, accessed September 22, 2026
2012 Topps UFC Knockout #53 — Cris Cyborg.
2012 Topps UFC Knockout #APP-CC — Cris Cyborg.
2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection #16 — Cris Cyborg.
2017 Topps UFC Fire #17 — Cris Cyborg.
2017 Topps Museum Collection UFC #41 — Cris Cyborg.
2019 Topps UFC Chrome #69 — Cris Cyborg.
- Cardboard Connection2019 Topps UFC Chrome checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
- SportsCardsProCris Cyborg #69 | 2019 Topps UFC Chrome, accessed September 22, 2026
2019 Topps UFC Chrome #84T-CJ — Cris Cyborg.
2019 Topps UFC Knockout #53 — Cris Cyborg.
2025 Panini Contenders PFL #76 — Cris Cyborg.
- Checklist Insider2025 Panini Contenders PFL Checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
- Checklist Center2025 Panini Contenders PFL - MMA Card Checklist, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsProCris Cyborg #76 | 2025 Panini Contenders PFL, accessed September 22, 2026
- eBay2025 Panini Contenders PFL - Cris Cyborg Autograph Cracked Ice /25, accessed September 22, 2026