The rookie case
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #60
Edgar's first trading card, and one of the dual-subject fight cards that made up part of the Round 1 base set: it pairs him with Tyson Griffin, the opponent he beat by unanimous decision on his UFC debut at UFC 67 on 3 February 2007. Because Topps only picked up the UFC licence in 2009, this February 2009 release is the earliest Edgar cardboard of any kind — nothing exists from his 2005-2008 run through the Underground Combat League, Ring of Combat and his first four UFC fights. Collectors chasing it have to accept that it is a shared card rather than a solo portrait.
- Earliest licensed card2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #60 High confidence
- First MMA card2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #60 High confidence
- First UFC card2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #60 High confidence
- First certified autograph2009 Topps UFC Round 1 Dual Autograph Fight Mat Relics #ADM-FETG Probable
- Recognized rookie card2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #60 Probable
The evidence behind each
- 2009Earliest licensed card — Jeff Allender's House of Checklists gives #60 as 'Frankie Edgar - Tyson Griffin' and SportsCardsPro catalogues the same card. Topps did not hold the UFC licence before 2009, and no earlier Edgar card of any kind appears in Collectibles.com's register or anywhere else consulted.
- 2009First MMA card — Collectibles.com's register shows nothing before 2009; no wrestling or regional card of him surfaced.
- 2009First UFC card — Jeff Allender's Round 1 checklist; SportsCardsPro's card page for #60.
- 2009First certified autograph — Jeff Allender's Round 1 checklist records a four-card Dual Autograph Fight Mat Relics subset limited to 25, with Edgar / Griffin at ADM-FETG, and SportsCardsPro's product search returns the same card. Edgar is absent from the Round 1 Autographs checklist, and he is absent from the 2009 Round 2 Fighter Autographs checklist on both SportsCardsPro's complete set list and Jeff Allender's — so the FA-FE card previously recorded as his first autograph does not exist in 2009. His next signature is 2010 Topps UFC Autographs #FA-FE.
- 2009Recognized rookie card — Collectibles.com's register states 'Frankie Edgar debuted as a Rookie in 2009' but carries no entry for the card and flags none of his cards RC. eBay's catalogue titles 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 base cards '(RC)' across the set, and Collectibles.com does flag other Round 1 base cards RC for other fighters, but no source names Edgar's #60 specifically.
Key Edgar cards
12 cards chosen for significance, not completeness; autographs and numbered cards follow below.
Card history
Edgar had already fought through the Underground Combat League, Ring of Combat and four UFC bouts before a card of him existed, because Topps did not hold the UFC licence until 2009. His first card is therefore retrospective: Round 1 #60, from the February 2009 release, one of the dual-subject fight cards in that base run, pairing him with Tyson Griffin — the opponent he beat on decision at UFC 67 on 3 February 2007. Parallels run Gold unnumbered, Black /888, Silver /288 and a Red 1/1.
Dealers sell #60 as the rookie, but the designation is convention rather than a printed flag: 2009 Topps UFC carries no RC logo anywhere, and SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'No' for #60 and for every later Edgar card it catalogues. Collectibles.com dates his rookie season to 2009 and flags other Round 1 base cards RC without naming his, which is about as far as any source goes. Two things get mislabelled as a result - the Gold, Silver /288 and Black /888 versions of #60, which are parallels of one base card, and Round 2 #88, which is genuinely his first solo card but came seven months later. The only solo Edgar card in Round 1 is the insert VD19, from the 20-card Victorious Debuts run, captioned for UFC 67.
His first signature is in Round 1 after all, but not in the autograph checklist. Edgar is absent from the 38-card Round 1 Autographs run, and he is absent from Round 2's Fighter Autographs too - SportsCardsPro's complete Round 2 Autographs set list and Jeff Allender's checklist both print the full FA- signer list without him, the nearest codes being FA-EE Efrain Escudero and FA-FG Forrest Griffin. What Round 1 does carry is a four-card Dual Autograph Fight Mat Relics subset limited to 25, and Edgar shares one of them with Tyson Griffin at #ADM-FETG - the same matchup as his base card, signed by both men on a piece of event-used mat. That is the earliest certified Edgar signature. Round 2, released 30 September 2009, gave him base #88 in a 150-card set, the last Edgar base card before he took the lightweight title from B.J. Penn at UFC 112 the following April. Checklists disagree on the Round 2 base parallels, Jeff Allender's giving Gold, Silver /188, Bronze /88, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 and Cardboard Connection's giving Gold, Onyx /188, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 with no Bronze at all.
The title year gave him three Topps base cards at once. Series 4 on 24 September 2010 put him at #48 in a 200-card set with Gold, Silver /188, Bronze /88, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 versions, and carried his first confirmed relic, Ultimate Gear #UG-FE, with Gold /188, Onyx /88, Red /8 and Diamond 1/1 - he was not in the 2009 Ultimate Gear checklist, so his relic history starts here. The same product holds the autograph the code FA-FE actually belongs to: Fighters & Personalities Autographs #FA-FE, from a subset of around eighty signers falling roughly one in eight packs. Listings that attach FA-FE to a 2009 Topps product are wrong - there is no Edgar entry in either 2009 autograph checklist. Main Event #51 was the retail companion and the easiest 2010 Edgar to find clean, and December's high-end Knockout release closed the year at #36.
After the title years his cards thin out until Topps regained the licence in 2019, when UFC Chrome put him at base #4 — his first chrome-stock card, issued as a featherweight veteran — with Knockout #55 alongside it. Panini picked him up in 2021, the year he moved to bantamweight, at Prizm UFC #158 and Select UFC #4. The run closes where it should: his 2024 induction into the Hall of Fame's Modern Wing made him eligible for Topps Royalty's Golden Hall Autographs, and #GH-FE appeared in the 2025 product numbered to 99 with Blue /25, Gold /10, Green /5 and a Platinum 1/1 above it. He is not in the 2024 Golden Hall checklist, which lists nineteen names without him.
Autographs
3 certified autographs in the archive.
Card eras
Topps' first UFC set gave Edgar base #60 opposite Tyson Griffin, a solo Victorious Debuts insert at #VD19 and — in the four-card Dual Autograph Fight Mat Relics subset — his first certified autograph, #ADM-FETG with Griffin, limited to 25. He is not on the Round 1 Autographs checklist, so the dual relic is the only signed Edgar card in the product.
The 30 September release carried base #88, his first single-subject base card, in a 150-card set. Edgar is not in Round 2's Fighter Autographs checklist — his signature in 2009 is the Round 1 dual autograph relic — and #88 is the last Edgar base card before the belt.
After beating B.J. Penn at UFC 112 he landed in all three 2010 Topps products: Series 4 #48 (24 September) with the Fighters & Personalities Autograph #FA-FE and his first confirmed relic, Ultimate Gear #UG-FE; Main Event #51; and the December Knockout release at #36.
With the licence regained, 2019 Topps UFC Chrome put him at base #4 and Topps UFC Knockout at #55 — his first chrome-stock cards, issued as a featherweight veteran.
Panini's UFC run picked him up as a bantamweight: Prizm UFC #158 and Select UFC #4 in the same year, the two sets modern UFC collectors build around.
His 2024 induction into the UFC Hall of Fame's Modern Wing made him eligible for Topps Royalty's Golden Hall Autographs; #GH-FE arrived in the 2025 product numbered to 99, with Platinum 1/1 at the top.
Rookie parallels
Sets
Where Edgar's key cards come from.
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 11 key card
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 1 Victorious Debuts1 key card
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 21 key card
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 1 Dual Autograph Fight Mat Relics1 key card
- 20102010 Topps UFC (Series 4)1 key card
- 20102010 Topps UFC Ultimate Gear Relics1 key card
- 20102010 Topps UFC Main Event1 key card
- 20102010 Topps UFC Knockout1 key card
- 20102010 Topps UFC Autographs1 key card
- 20192019 Topps Chrome UFC1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Prizm UFC1 key card
- 20252025 Topps Royalty UFC Golden Hall Autographs1 key card
Buying & wanted
- 012009 Topps UFC Round 1 #60 Frankie Edgar / Tyson Griffin — the Silver /288 and the Red 1/1 parallels of the card sold as his rookie
- 022009 Topps UFC Round 1 Dual Autograph Fight Mat Relics #ADM-FETG /25 — his first certified autograph, signed with Tyson Griffin
- 032010 Topps UFC Ultimate Gear Relics #UG-FE in Red /8 or Diamond 1/1
- 042025 Topps Royalty UFC Golden Hall Autographs #GH-FE Platinum 1/1 — the Hall of Fame signature
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Frankie Edgar's rookie card: 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #60 — Frankie Edgar / Tyson Griffin.
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #60 is Edgar's first card in any licensed set. Topps did not hold the UFC licence before 2009 and no earlier Edgar card of any kind — MMA, wrestling, regional or promo — turned up in any reachable source, so nothing predates it. Jeff Allender's House of Checklists lists it as base #60 'Frankie Edgar - Tyson Griffin', and SportsCardsPro catalogues the same card at the same number. Sellers treat it as the rookie: Frogger's House of Cards titles its listing '2009 Frankie Edgar vs Tyson Griffin UFC Topps Round 1 Rookie Card #60' and eBay lot titles call it an Edgar rookie. The counterweight is that 2009 Topps UFC cards carry no RC logo and SportsCardsPro's own 'Is Rookie Card' field for #60 reads 'No', which is why this is filed as a rookie by convention rather than a verified RC.
- NSListsUFC Round 1 (Topps, 2009) checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
- SportsCardsProFrankie Edgar, Tyson Griffin #60 — 2009 Topps UFC Round 1, accessed September 22, 2026
- Frogger's House of Cards2009 Frankie Edgar vs Tyson Griffin UFC Topps Round 1 Rookie Card #60, accessed September 22, 2026
- eBay(30) 2009 Topps UFC Nate Diaz BJ Penn Mir Rutten Machida Edgar Rookie Card HOF, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsProFrankie Edgar #88 — 2009 Topps UFC Round 2, accessed September 22, 2026
- NSListsUFC Round 2 (Topps, 2009) checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
- WikipediaFrankie Edgar, accessed September 22, 2026
Edgar had already fought through the Underground Combat League, Ring of Combat and four UFC bouts before a card of him existed, because Topps did not hold the UFC licence until 2009. His first card is therefore retrospective: Round 1 #60, from the February 2009 release, one of the dual-subject fight cards in that base run, pairing him with Tyson Griffin — the opponent he beat on decision at UFC 67 on 3 February 2007. Parallels run Gold unnumbered, Black /888, Silver /288 and a Red 1/1.
Dealers sell #60 as the rookie, but the designation is convention rather than a printed flag: 2009 Topps UFC carries no RC logo anywhere, and SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'No' for #60 and for every later Edgar card it catalogues. Collectibles.com dates his rookie season to 2009 and flags other Round 1 base cards RC without naming his, which is about as far as any source goes. Two things get mislabelled as a result - the Gold, Silver /288 and Black /888 versions of #60, which are parallels of one base card, and Round 2 #88, which is genuinely his first solo card but came seven months later. The only solo Edgar card in Round 1 is the insert VD19, from the 20-card Victorious Debuts run, captioned for UFC 67.
His first signature is in Round 1 after all, but not in the autograph checklist. Edgar is absent from the 38-card Round 1 Autographs run, and he is absent from Round 2's Fighter Autographs too - SportsCardsPro's complete Round 2 Autographs set list and Jeff Allender's checklist both print the full FA- signer list without him, the nearest codes being FA-EE Efrain Escudero and FA-FG Forrest Griffin. What Round 1 does carry is a four-card Dual Autograph Fight Mat Relics subset limited to 25, and Edgar shares one of them with Tyson Griffin at #ADM-FETG - the same matchup as his base card, signed by both men on a piece of event-used mat. That is the earliest certified Edgar signature. Round 2, released 30 September 2009, gave him base #88 in a 150-card set, the last Edgar base card before he took the lightweight title from B.J. Penn at UFC 112 the following April. Checklists disagree on the Round 2 base parallels, Jeff Allender's giving Gold, Silver /188, Bronze /88, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 and Cardboard Connection's giving Gold, Onyx /188, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 with no Bronze at all.
- NSListsUFC Round 2 (Topps, 2009) checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
- Cardboard Connection2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Review, accessed September 20, 2026 Source for parallel structure, insert sets and box configuration. Internally inconsistent on Onyx serial numbering (base /188 vs insert /88) — see claim-r2-onyx.
The title year gave him three Topps base cards at once. Series 4 on 24 September 2010 put him at #48 in a 200-card set with Gold, Silver /188, Bronze /88, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 versions, and carried his first confirmed relic, Ultimate Gear #UG-FE, with Gold /188, Onyx /88, Red /8 and Diamond 1/1 - he was not in the 2009 Ultimate Gear checklist, so his relic history starts here. The same product holds the autograph the code FA-FE actually belongs to: Fighters & Personalities Autographs #FA-FE, from a subset of around eighty signers falling roughly one in eight packs. Listings that attach FA-FE to a 2009 Topps product are wrong - there is no Edgar entry in either 2009 autograph checklist. Main Event #51 was the retail companion and the easiest 2010 Edgar to find clean, and December's high-end Knockout release closed the year at #36.
After the title years his cards thin out until Topps regained the licence in 2019, when UFC Chrome put him at base #4 — his first chrome-stock card, issued as a featherweight veteran — with Knockout #55 alongside it. Panini picked him up in 2021, the year he moved to bantamweight, at Prizm UFC #158 and Select UFC #4. The run closes where it should: his 2024 induction into the Hall of Fame's Modern Wing made him eligible for Topps Royalty's Golden Hall Autographs, and #GH-FE appeared in the 2025 product numbered to 99 with Blue /25, Gold /10, Green /5 and a Platinum 1/1 above it. He is not in the 2024 Golden Hall checklist, which lists nineteen names without him.
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #60 — Frankie Edgar / Tyson Griffin.
- NSListsUFC Round 1 (Topps, 2009) checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
- SportsCardsProFrankie Edgar, Tyson Griffin #60 — 2009 Topps UFC Round 1, accessed September 22, 2026
- Frogger's House of Cards2009 Frankie Edgar vs Tyson Griffin UFC Topps Round 1 Rookie Card #60, accessed September 22, 2026
- eBay(30) 2009 Topps UFC Nate Diaz BJ Penn Mir Rutten Machida Edgar Rookie Card HOF, accessed September 22, 2026
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 Victorious Debuts #VD-19 — Frankie Edgar.
2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #88 — Frankie Edgar.
- NSListsUFC Round 2 (Topps, 2009) checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
- SportsCardsProFrankie Edgar #88 — 2009 Topps UFC Round 2, accessed September 22, 2026
- Cardboard Connection2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Review, accessed September 20, 2026 Source for parallel structure, insert sets and box configuration. Internally inconsistent on Onyx serial numbering (base /188 vs insert /88) — see claim-r2-onyx.
2010 Topps UFC (Series 4) #48 — Frankie Edgar.
2010 Topps UFC Ultimate Gear Relics #UG-FE — Frankie Edgar.
2010 Topps UFC Main Event #51 — Frankie Edgar.
2010 Topps UFC Knockout #36 — Frankie Edgar.
2019 Topps UFC Chrome #4 — Frankie Edgar.
2021 Panini Prizm UFC #158 — Frankie Edgar.
2025 Topps Royalty UFC Golden Hall Autographs #GH-FE — Frankie Edgar.
- SportsCardsPro2025 Topps Royalty UFC Golden Hall Autograph checklist — Frankie Edgar #GH-FE /99 with Blue /25, Gold /10, Green /5, Platinum 1/1, accessed September 22, 2026
- Collectibles.comFrankie Edgar Cards: Values, Rookies, accessed September 22, 2026
- 2024 Topps Royalty UFC, accessed September 21, 2026
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 Dual Autograph Fight Mat Relics #ADM-FETG — frankie-edgar / Tyson Griffin.
- NSListsUFC Round 1 (Topps, 2009) checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
- sportscardspro.comaccessed September 23, 2026
2010 Topps UFC Autographs #FA-FE — frankie-edgar.