Why this is the working pick
2022 Panini Prizm WWE #23 is the card collectors treat as the Steveson rookie. SportsCardsPro's product page for it answers 'Is Rookie Card: Yes', Collectibles.com lists it as '#23 RC', and eBay listings consistently title it 'Rookie RC 1st Prizm Base Card'. Cardboard Connection's checklist independently confirms the set (200-card base, released 6 April 2022) and the card number (#23, Raw, horizontal layout). Nothing earlier could be verified: the 2021 Topps US Olympic & Paralympic Team Hopefuls checklist does not include him, and no 2021 Topps Now Olympic card of him surfaced in any checklist or marketplace source. Prizm is also the flagship Panini WWE brand, which is why it wins over the other 2022 issues even where a database flags those RC too.
The card the hobby calls the Gable Steveson rookie, and the earliest Steveson card that two independent sources agree on. It comes from Panini's 6 April 2022 Prizm WWE release, a 200-card base set split 100 horizontal / 100 vertical, with Steveson on a horizontal Raw card. It also carries the deepest parallel rainbow he has, topping out at Black 1/1.
Only in the weak sense that three different 2022 Panini WWE cards get sold as 'RC' and the databases disagree about which carry the flag — Collectibles.com flags both Prizm #23 and Revolution #96, SportsCardsPro flags only Prizm #23. The release dates settle it in Prizm's favour. The unresolved wildcard is the undated 2022 Panini Instant WWE #15.
Sellers sometimes describe Steveson as having an 'Olympic rookie card' from 2021. No such card was found. Also note his cards are wrestling (WWE) cards, not MMA cards — an MMA collector buying a 'Gable Steveson rookie' is buying a Panini WWE card.
Identifying it
- Card #23, horizontal layout, branded 'Raw' per the Cardboard Connection checklist
- Base version is unnumbered with no coloured Prizm finish — the numbered parallels carry the serial on the front or back
- Verify against the 200-card base checklist; #23 is well inside the base run, not an insert
Parallels
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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Gable Steveson's rookie card: 2022 Panini Prizm WWE #23 — Gable Steveson.
2022 Panini Prizm WWE #23 is the card collectors treat as the Steveson rookie. SportsCardsPro's product page for it answers 'Is Rookie Card: Yes', Collectibles.com lists it as '#23 RC', and eBay listings consistently title it 'Rookie RC 1st Prizm Base Card'. Cardboard Connection's checklist independently confirms the set (200-card base, released 6 April 2022) and the card number (#23, Raw, horizontal layout). Nothing earlier could be verified: the 2021 Topps US Olympic & Paralympic Team Hopefuls checklist does not include him, and no 2021 Topps Now Olympic card of him surfaced in any checklist or marketplace source. Prizm is also the flagship Panini WWE brand, which is why it wins over the other 2022 issues even where a database flags those RC too.
2022 Panini Prizm WWE #23 — Gable Steveson.
Go deeper
- The card record2022 Panini Prizm WWE #23
- Gable Steveson archiveKey cards and eras