The earliest card
2010 Topps UFC Knockout #127
Dominick Cruz's earliest card. Topps UFC Knockout was a 150-card set released in December 2010, the same month Cruz beat Scott Jorgensen at WEC 53 to unify the WEC belt with the inaugural UFC bantamweight title — which is what got a fighter who had spent his whole career in WEC onto a UFC checklist at all. Topps had already put a 'WEC Fighter' block into 2010 Topps UFC Main Event earlier that year, with Urijah Faber at #144, but Cruz is not in it, and he is not in the 2010 Topps UFC Series 4 checklist either.
- Earliest licensed card2010 Topps UFC Knockout #127 Probable
- First MMA card2010 Topps UFC Knockout #127 High confidence
- First UFC card2010 Topps UFC Knockout #127 High confidence
- First certified autograph2011 Finest UFC #A-DC Probable
- Recognized rookie cardNone documented Unconfirmed
The evidence behind each
- 2010Earliest licensed card — Two independent checklists place him there: Jeff Allender's House of Checklists gives #127 Dominick Cruz in the 150-card 2010 Topps UFC Knockout base run, and SportsCardsPro's card page for #127 agrees on set, year and number. A SportsCardsPro product search returns no Cruz card in 2010 Topps UFC Main Event, and Cardboard Connection's 2010 Series 4 checklist has none either. No published manufacturer checklist for the base set has been seen directly, which holds the confidence at probable.
- 2010First MMA card — Collectibles.com's register lists nothing before 2010, and no non-MMA Cruz card surfaced anywhere.
- 2010First UFC card — Cardboard Connection confirms 2010 Topps UFC Knockout as a Topps UFC product released December 2010; Jeff Allender's checklist places Cruz at #127.
- 2011First certified autograph — Jeff Allender's 2010 Topps UFC Knockout checklist contains no Cruz entry in any of that product's autograph or relic subsets, so nothing signed from 2010 precedes it; Jeff Allender's Finest checklist and SportsCardsPro both carry #A-DC. Whether the signature is on-card or on a sticker is not recorded anywhere.
- —Recognized rookie card — Collectibles.com's register states 'Dominick Cruz debuted as a Rookie in 2010' without naming a card, and SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'Is Rookie Card: No' on every Cruz card checked, #127 included. No manufacturer printed a rookie logo on any of them, so the archive records his earliest licensed card instead.
Key Cruz cards
10 cards chosen for significance, not completeness; autographs and numbered cards follow below.
Card history
Cruz spent his whole rise without a card. He fought Urijah Faber at WEC 26 in March 2007 and held the WEC bantamweight title from March 2010, but WEC never ran a trading-card programme of its own. Topps did carry WEC fighters in 2010 - Main Event has a 'WEC Fighter' block, with Urijah Faber at #144 - but Cruz is in neither that block nor the 2010 Topps UFC Series 4 checklist, which has no WEC fighters at all. The earliest Cruz card catalogued anywhere is 2010 Topps UFC Knockout #127, from a 150-card set that shipped in December 2010 - the same month he beat Scott Jorgensen at WEC 53 to unify the belt with the inaugural UFC bantamweight title, which is what put a career WEC fighter on a UFC checklist in the first place. Jeff Allender's House of Checklists and SportsCardsPro agree on the number; they disagree only on the Gold parallel, which SportsCardsPro numbers /288 and Allender's checklist carries without a serial.
No source designates a Cruz rookie card, which is why the letters float. SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'No' on every Cruz card checked, from the 2010 Knockout base through 2011 Finest, Moment of Truth and the 2021 Prizm; Collectibles.com says only that he debuted as a rookie in 2010, naming no card. Sellers attach RC to 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #39, helped by the fact that the set genuinely does carry first cards for fighters new to the checklist, and parallels get the same treatment - the Moment of Truth Onyx and the Finest Refractor both turn up in listings headed 'Cruz RC'.
Almost everything else from his first reign arrives in one 2011 burst. Finest gave him base #66, his first card on chrome stock, behind X-Fractor /388, Gold Refractor /88, Octa-Fractor /8 and a Red Refractor 1/1 - the Refractor tier itself is unsettled, with one catalogue calling it /888 and Jeff Allender's checklist listing it unnumbered - plus Finest Fighters Autographs #A-DC, his first certified signature. Moment of Truth followed on 30 November 2011 with #39 in a 220-card base and Gold, Onyx, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 parallels, along with Certified Signatures, Elite Skills and dual-autograph appearances. Title Shot #41 and the Fighter Relics #FR-DC, with a Black version /88, close the window; a run of knee and groin injuries then held him to a single fight between October 2011 and January 2016, and his card run thins to almost nothing across those years.
Taking the belt back from T.J. Dillashaw at the start of 2016 put him into Topps' high-end products for the first time. Museum Collection gave him base #27 and the Framed Autographs #MCC-DCR, with a Black Framed version, and Knockout that year carried him on a six-signature SixSigs card. The tightest-numbered card of his championship years is the 2017 Topps Chrome UFC Tier 1 insert #UT-DC, from a 25-fighter set, with the Refractor at /99, a Pulsar Refractor /50 and a Superfractor 1/1 above it - and note that Topps and the price guides file that product under slightly different names.
Panini's licence gave him flagship base cards again: 2021 Prizm UFC #2, a low and memorable number in the most collected product of that era, with Select UFC #42 and Chronicles #346 alongside it and Immaculate dual autographs pairing him with Henry Cejudo and T.J. Dillashaw. Topps' return brought the Chrome UFC Representing insert #REP-8, whose Superfractor 1/1 is the modern Cruz chase card, and 2025 Royalty added Regalia Relic Signatures #RRS-DC. His 2026 induction into the UFC Hall of Fame's Modern Wing has sent collectors back to the thin 2010 and 2011 run, which is where the scarcity actually is.
Autographs
2 certified autographs in the archive.
Card eras
Cruz fought Urijah Faber at WEC 26 in March 2007 and held the WEC bantamweight title from March 2010, but WEC never had a trading-card programme of its own. The one 2010 Topps UFC product that did carry a WEC block — Main Event, with its 'WEC Fighter' subset — left him out of it, and Topps' 2010 UFC Series 4 checklist carries no WEC fighters at all.
2010 Topps UFC Knockout, released in December 2010 alongside WEC 53, is his earliest card — base #127 in the 150-card set, with a parallel ladder of Gold, Silver /188, Green /88, Red /8 and an Octagon Mat 1/1.
Topps put him in everything: Finest base #66 and Finest Fighters Autographs #A-DC (his first certified signature), Moment of Truth #39 with its Onyx and Ruby parallels, and Title Shot #41 plus Fighter Relics #FR-DC.
A run of knee and groin injuries kept Cruz to a single fight between October 2011 and January 2016, and his card run thins out to almost nothing across the Topps UFC releases of those years.
Winning the belt back from T.J. Dillashaw put him in Topps' high-end products: Museum Collection base #27 and Framed Autographs #MCC-DCR, the Knockout SixSigs six-signature card, then 2017 Topps Chrome UFC Tier 1 #UT-DC Refractor /99.
Panini's UFC licence gave him flagship base cards again — Prizm UFC #2, Select UFC #42, Chronicles #346 — plus Immaculate dual autographs paired with Henry Cejudo and T.J. Dillashaw.
Topps' return brought Chrome UFC Representing #REP-8 (Superfractor 1/1) and 2025 Royalty Regalia Relic Signatures #RRS-DC; his 2026 UFC Hall of Fame induction into the Modern Wing has renewed attention on the thin 2010–2011 run.
Parallels of this card
Sets
Where Cruz's key cards come from.
- 20102010 Topps UFC Knockout1 key card
- 20112011 Finest UFC2 key cards
- 20112011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth1 key card
- 20112011 Topps UFC Title Shot2 key cards
- 20162016 Topps UFC Museum Collection1 key card
- 20172017 Topps Chrome UFC1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Prizm UFC1 key card
- 20242024 Topps Chrome UFC1 key card
Buying & wanted
- 012010 Topps UFC Knockout #127 Gold — the parallel of his earliest card, and the one tier whose print run the checklists still disagree on
- 022011 Topps UFC Finest Fighters Autographs #A-DC, especially the Gold Refractor /88 or Octa-Fractor /8
- 032011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #39 Onyx, or the Ruby /8
- 042017 Topps Chrome UFC Tier 1 #UT-DC Refractor /99
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Dominick Cruz's earliest card: 2010 Topps UFC Knockout #127 — Dominick Cruz.
No source consulted designates an official Dominick Cruz rookie card. SportsCardsPro's data field reads 'Is Rookie Card: No' on every Cruz card checked, including 2010 Topps UFC Knockout #127, 2011 Finest UFC #66, 2011 Moment of Truth #39 and 2021 Panini Prizm UFC #2. Collectibles.com states he 'debuted as a Rookie in 2010', which matches the Knockout card's December 2010 release but names no specific card. Because he fought his whole pre-title career in WEC, which had no card programme, and because Topps' 2010 UFC Series 4 checklist contains no WEC fighters, 2010 Topps UFC Knockout #127 is the earliest Cruz card on record — so it is filed as his earliest card rather than as a rookie card. No card database entry has been located for any of them, so an RC flag in a database record cannot be ruled out.
- SportsCardsProDominick Cruz #127 | 2010 Topps UFC Knockout, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsProDominick Cruz #39 | 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth, accessed September 22, 2026
- Collectibles.comDominick Cruz Cards — 'debuted as a Rookie in 2010', accessed September 22, 2026
- 2010 Topps UFC (Series 4), accessed September 21, 2026
- 2010 Topps UFC Knockout, accessed September 21, 2026
- SportsCardsProDominick Cruz [Gold] #127 /288 | 2010 Topps UFC Knockout, accessed September 22, 2026
Cruz spent his whole rise without a card. He fought Urijah Faber at WEC 26 in March 2007 and held the WEC bantamweight title from March 2010, but WEC never ran a trading-card programme of its own. Topps did carry WEC fighters in 2010 - Main Event has a 'WEC Fighter' block, with Urijah Faber at #144 - but Cruz is in neither that block nor the 2010 Topps UFC Series 4 checklist, which has no WEC fighters at all. The earliest Cruz card catalogued anywhere is 2010 Topps UFC Knockout #127, from a 150-card set that shipped in December 2010 - the same month he beat Scott Jorgensen at WEC 53 to unify the belt with the inaugural UFC bantamweight title, which is what put a career WEC fighter on a UFC checklist in the first place. Jeff Allender's House of Checklists and SportsCardsPro agree on the number; they disagree only on the Gold parallel, which SportsCardsPro numbers /288 and Allender's checklist carries without a serial.
No source designates a Cruz rookie card, which is why the letters float. SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'No' on every Cruz card checked, from the 2010 Knockout base through 2011 Finest, Moment of Truth and the 2021 Prizm; Collectibles.com says only that he debuted as a rookie in 2010, naming no card. Sellers attach RC to 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #39, helped by the fact that the set genuinely does carry first cards for fighters new to the checklist, and parallels get the same treatment - the Moment of Truth Onyx and the Finest Refractor both turn up in listings headed 'Cruz RC'.
Almost everything else from his first reign arrives in one 2011 burst. Finest gave him base #66, his first card on chrome stock, behind X-Fractor /388, Gold Refractor /88, Octa-Fractor /8 and a Red Refractor 1/1 - the Refractor tier itself is unsettled, with one catalogue calling it /888 and Jeff Allender's checklist listing it unnumbered - plus Finest Fighters Autographs #A-DC, his first certified signature. Moment of Truth followed on 30 November 2011 with #39 in a 220-card base and Gold, Onyx, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 parallels, along with Certified Signatures, Elite Skills and dual-autograph appearances. Title Shot #41 and the Fighter Relics #FR-DC, with a Black version /88, close the window; a run of knee and groin injuries then held him to a single fight between October 2011 and January 2016, and his card run thins to almost nothing across those years.
Taking the belt back from T.J. Dillashaw at the start of 2016 put him into Topps' high-end products for the first time. Museum Collection gave him base #27 and the Framed Autographs #MCC-DCR, with a Black Framed version, and Knockout that year carried him on a six-signature SixSigs card. The tightest-numbered card of his championship years is the 2017 Topps Chrome UFC Tier 1 insert #UT-DC, from a 25-fighter set, with the Refractor at /99, a Pulsar Refractor /50 and a Superfractor 1/1 above it - and note that Topps and the price guides file that product under slightly different names.
Panini's licence gave him flagship base cards again: 2021 Prizm UFC #2, a low and memorable number in the most collected product of that era, with Select UFC #42 and Chronicles #346 alongside it and Immaculate dual autographs pairing him with Henry Cejudo and T.J. Dillashaw. Topps' return brought the Chrome UFC Representing insert #REP-8, whose Superfractor 1/1 is the modern Cruz chase card, and 2025 Royalty added Regalia Relic Signatures #RRS-DC. His 2026 induction into the UFC Hall of Fame's Modern Wing has sent collectors back to the thin 2010 and 2011 run, which is where the scarcity actually is.
2010 Topps UFC Knockout #127 — Dominick Cruz.
- SportsCardsProDominick Cruz #127 | 2010 Topps UFC Knockout, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsProDominick Cruz [Gold] #127 /288 | 2010 Topps UFC Knockout, accessed September 22, 2026
- 2010 Topps UFC Knockout, accessed September 21, 2026
- Collectibles.comDominick Cruz Cards — 'debuted as a Rookie in 2010', accessed September 22, 2026
2011 Topps UFC Finest #66 — Dominick Cruz.
2011 Topps UFC Finest #A-DC — Dominick Cruz.
2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #39 — Dominick Cruz.
2011 Topps UFC Title Shot #41 — Dominick Cruz.
2011 Topps UFC Title Shot #FR-DC — Dominick Cruz.
2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection #MCC-DCR — Dominick Cruz.
2017 Topps Chrome UFC #UT-DC — Dominick Cruz.
2021 Panini Prizm UFC #2 — Dominick Cruz.
2024 Topps Chrome UFC #REP-8 — Dominick Cruz.