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Georges St-Pierre

GSP's cardboard starts a year before Topps got the UFC licence, in a serial-numbered 2008 Donruss Americana II insert, but most of the sources — Cardboard Connection, TCDB and the eBay catalogue — treat 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17 — a dual-subject card of his UFC debut against Karo Parisyan — as the rookie. That split means a serious GSP run needs both the Donruss Ring Kings pieces and the Topps Round 1/Round 2 base, with the 2009 Round 1 autograph as the first licensed signature.

2009Rookie year
#17Rookie card
7Key cards
  • UFC debutJanuary 31, 2004 · UFC 46: Supernatural
  • DivisionsWelterweight · Middleweight
  • FromSaint-Isidore, Quebec
Rookie card
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17 Georges St-Pierre / Karo Parisyan — front
#17
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The rookie

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17 Georges St-Pierre / Karo Parisyan — front
#17
Rookie card · working pick Rookie disputed

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17

This is his card from the first Topps UFC product, and Cardboard Connection, TCDB and the eBay catalogue treat it as his rookie. It shows his 2004 UFC debut win over Karo Parisyan, so the rookie also marks where his UFC career began. The Silver /288 and the rarer parallels are the high-end targets.

Where sources disagree

The sources disagree. Sports Card Expert calls the 2008 Donruss Americana II Ring Kings #RK-GS /500 his 'definitive' rookie and #17 only 'somewhat of a rookie card'. TCDB puts RC flags on both 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17 and Round 2 #100. Cardboard Connection, the eBay catalogue and the grading-market listings treat Round 1 #17 as the rookie.

Commonly misidentified

Mix-ups where the answer isn't in doubt: the 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 autograph #A-GSP and the Donruss Ring Kings Signature autographs get sold as 'rookie autos' — they are rookie-year and earliest signatures, not RC-designated cards. Round 2 #100 turns up as 'the rookie' because TCDB flags it RC too, but it came out seven months after Round 1 #17; Cardboard Connection files Round 2 under plain '2009 Topps UFC', which makes Round 1/Round 2 confusion easy. The 2009 eTopps #2 (/999) was sold online, not in packs, and no source in the record calls it a rookie.

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Rookie card guide Card record
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Key St-Pierre cards

7 cards chosen for significance, not completeness.

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #100 Georges St-Pierre — front
2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #100 Rookie
2008 Donruss Americana II #RK-GS Georges St-Pierre — front
2008 Donruss Americana II #RK-GS /500
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #A-GSP Georges St-Pierre — front
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #A-GSP Auto
2011 Finest UFC #A-GSP Georges St-Pierre — front
2011 Finest UFC #A-GSP Auto
2010 Leaf MMA #Q-SSLE Auto
2024 Topps Chrome UFC #68 Georges St-Pierre — front
2024 Topps Chrome UFC #68
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Card eras

2008
Pre-licence Donruss

Donruss Americana II's Ring Kings insert gave GSP his first pack-issued card (#RK-GS, /500) plus memorabilia and autograph versions, all without UFC branding.

2009
Topps UFC arrives

Topps Round 1 put him on a dual-subject debut card (#17 with Parisyan) and a pack-inserted autograph; Round 2 followed with his first solo UFC base card, #100.

2010–2011
Licensed and unlicensed autos

Leaf MMA and Sportkings issued unlicensed autographs, including a Leaf quad signed with Anderson Silva, Brock Lesnar and Fedor Emelianenko, while Topps added Finest UFC on-card autographs in 2011.

2021–2024
Legend in modern chrome

After retirement he returns as a legend: a Champion Signatures autograph in 2021 Panini Prizm UFC and base #68 plus many inserts in 2024 Topps Chrome UFC once Topps regained the licence.

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Rookie parallels

Base
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Unnumbered
Gold
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High confidence
Silver
/288
High confidence
Black
/888
Probable
Red
1/1
Probable
UFC 94 Exclusive
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Probable
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Buying & wanted

Wanted by FightCardboard
  • 012009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17 Georges St-Pierre / Karo Parisyan in high grade, plus the Silver /288 parallel
  • 022009 Topps UFC Round 1 Autographs #A-GSP, especially the Red Ink parallel
  • 032008 Donruss Americana II Ring Kings Signature #RK-GS /250 and its Directors Cut /50 version
  • 042010 Leaf MMA Showdowns Quad Autographs #Q-SSLE (St-Pierre / Silva / Lesnar / Emelianenko)

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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.

High confidence

Georges St-Pierre's rookie card: 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17 — Georges St-Pierre / Karo Parisyan.

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17 is his first card in the first UFC-licensed Topps product (released 23 February 2009) and shows his UFC debut against Karo Parisyan. TCDB flags it RC, eBay's catalogue lists it as (RC), graded copies are sold as 'Rookie Card', and Cardboard Connection calls it 'the closest collectors will find to a Georges St-Pierre rookie card'. The earlier 2008 Donruss Americana II Ring Kings card is an unlicensed, serial-numbered insert in a pop-culture product rather than a base card in an MMA set, and TCDB does not flag it RC, so FightCardboard does not take it as the rookie (Sports Card Expert does — see the dispute). Round 2 #100 also carries a TCDB RC flag but came out later in 2009 (30 September), so #17 is the earlier of his two RC-flagged cards. DISPUTE: The sources disagree. Sports Card Expert calls the 2008 Donruss Americana II Ring Kings #RK-GS /500 his 'definitive' rookie and #17 only 'somewhat of a rookie card'. TCDB puts RC flags on both 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17 and Round 2 #100. Cardboard Connection, the eBay catalogue and the grading-market listings treat Round 1 #17 as the rookie.

Uncertain

Rookie card: Sports Card Expert calls 2008 Donruss Americana II Ring Kings #RK-GS /500 his rookie. Cardboard Connection, TCDB, eBay and the grading market use 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17.

Sources are named in the statement above; direct links have not been attached yet.

Uncertain

TCDB puts RC flags on both 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17 and Round 2 #100. Anderson Silva's Round 2 #33 in the same set has no flag, so TCDB's Round 2 flagging looks inconsistent.

Sources are named in the statement above; direct links have not been attached yet.

Uncertain

Round 1 base count: 100 on TCDB, 102 on NSLists.

Sources are named in the statement above; direct links have not been attached yet.

Uncertain

Round 2 base count: 150 on TCDB and Cardboard Connection, 156 with checklists on NSLists.

Sources are named in the statement above; direct links have not been attached yet.

Uncertain

The Round 2 /188 parallel is called Onyx by Cardboard Connection and Silver by NSLists. Only NSLists lists a Bronze /88.

Sources are named in the statement above; direct links have not been attached yet.

Uncertain

Round 1 Black /888 and Red 1/1 parallels come only from NSLists.

Sources are named in the statement above; direct links have not been attached yet.

Uncertain

Card-number formats differ: TCDB writes A-GSP, Cardboard Connection writes AGSP, and Cardboard Connection's Ring Kings number is #GS where TCDB has RK-GS.

Sources are named in the statement above; direct links have not been attached yet.

Verified

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17 — Georges St-Pierre / Karo Parisyan.

Verified

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #100 — Georges St-Pierre.

High confidence

2008 Donruss Americana II #RK-GS — Georges St-Pierre.

Verified

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #A-GSP — Georges St-Pierre.

Verified

2011 Finest UFC #A-GSP — Georges St-Pierre.

Probable

2010 Leaf MMA #Q-SSLE — Georges St-Pierre / Anderson Silva / Brock Lesnar / Fedor Emelianenko.

Verified

2024 Topps Chrome UFC #68 — Georges St-Pierre.