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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

14Key cards

UFC debutJanuary 31, 2004 · UFC 46: Supernatural
DivisionsWelterweight · Middleweight
StatusRetired · UFC (as of Sept 2026)
FromSaint-Isidore, Quebec

Rookie card

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

#17

The rookie case

#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 rookie (listing it first under its 'Georges St-Pierre Rookie Cards' heading) 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 case Card record

Key St-Pierre cards

14 cards chosen for significance, not completeness; autographs and numbered cards follow below.

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

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #100 Rookie

2024 Topps Chrome UFC #68

Card history

GSP's first pack-issued card came a year before Topps had the UFC licence: the 2008 Donruss Americana II Ring Kings insert #RK-GS, numbered to 500, which Cardboard Connection calls 'the first pack-inserted Georges St-Pierre card'. The same unlicensed pop-culture product also had Material, Signature and Signature Material versions. TCDB puts the plain Signature at /250 and NS Lists puts the Signature Materials at /197 and the Directors Cut at /50.

Topps took the exclusive UFC licence in October 2008 and released its first set in 2009 (Topps Ripped). In 2009 Topps UFC Round 1, #17 shows GSP's UFC 46 debut against Karo Parisyan, and A-GSP was 'his first signature in a UFC-licensed trading card product' (Cardboard Connection). Round 2 later that year gave him #100, 'the first regular UFC card to name just GSP', plus the FA-GSP autograph and Bloodlines, Fight Mat and Ultimate Gear inserts.

From 2010 Topps added on-card signatures to its UFC line. Cardboard Connection's 2012 top-10 list includes the 2010 Knockout Full Contact autograph (silver ink, /99), the 2011 Finest on-card autograph and event cards such as the 2011 Toronto Fan Expo belt autograph /199. By then it counted 'more than 400 Georges St-Pierre cards' from Topps, Donruss, Upper Deck, In the Game and Sportkings.

From 2021 Panini held the UFC licence. GSP appeared in its first UFC Prizm (released 28 April 2021) as a Champion Signatures and a Sensational Signatures autograph. Checklist Insider says Topps, now owned by Fanatics, took the licence back after the Panini years. 2024 Topps Chrome UFC (released 20 March 2024), the first Chrome UFC set since 2019, gave GSP base #68 and autographs including Marks of Champions MOC-GSP.

Sources for every paragraph

Autographs

9 certified autographs in the archive.

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

2009Topps UFC Round 1 #A-GSP Auto

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

2011Finest UFC #A-GSP Auto

Q-SSLE 2010

Georges St-Pierre / Anderson Silva / Brock Lesnar / Fedor Emelianenko

2010 Leaf MMA

Photograph to come

2010Leaf MMA #Q-SSLE Auto

RK-GS 2008

Georges St-Pierre

2008 Donruss Americana II

Photograph to come

2008Donruss Americana II #RK-GS Signature Auto/250

AUG-GSP 2009

Georges St-Pierre

2009 Topps UFC Round 1

Photograph to come

2009Topps UFC Round 1 #AUG-GSP AutoRelic/25

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #FA-GSP — Georges St-Pierre — front

2009Topps UFC Round 2 #FA-GSP Auto

2010 Topps UFC Knockout #FC-GSP — Georges St-Pierre — front

2010Topps UFC Knockout #FC-GSP Auto/99

2021 Panini Prizm UFC #CS-GSP — Georges St-Pierre — front

2021Panini Prizm UFC #CS-GSP Auto

2024 Topps Chrome UFC #MOC-GSP — Georges St-Pierre — front

2024Topps Chrome UFC #MOC-GSP Auto

Numbered & parallels

Serial-numbered cards and parallels with their own record.

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

2008Donruss Americana II #RK-GS /500

RK-GS 2008

Georges St-Pierre

2008 Donruss Americana II

Photograph to come

2008Donruss Americana II #RK-GS Signature Auto/250

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17 Silver /288 — Georges St-Pierre / Karo Parisyan — front

2009Topps UFC Round 1 #17 Silver Rookie/288

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.

Rookie parallels

Base

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Unnumbered

Red

1/1

Probable

Silver

/288

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Black

/888

Probable

Gold

—

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UFC 94 Exclusive

—

Probable

Sets

Where St-Pierre's key cards come from.

20082008 Donruss Americana II2 key cards
20092009 Topps UFC Round 14 key cards
20092009 Topps UFC Round 22 key cards
20102010 Leaf MMA1 key card
20102010 Topps UFC Knockout1 key card
20112011 Finest UFC1 key card
20212021 Panini Prizm UFC1 key card
20242024 Topps Chrome UFC2 key cards

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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Research

Rookie Cards

GSP Rookie Card: Donruss Americana vs Topps UFC Explained

A 2008 Donruss insert, a 2009 Topps debut card and a 2009 Topps solo card. Three candidates, one working pick, and a dispute that isn't going away.

September 21, 2026

GSP Rookie Card: Donruss Americana vs Topps UFC Explained

Sets

Why 2009 Topps UFC Matters

Two products, released seven months apart, that hold the first UFC-licensed cards of almost every name from the sport's first era.

September 21, 2026

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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 rookie (listing it first under its 'Georges St-Pierre Rookie Cards' heading) 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.

COMC2009 Topps UFC Round 1 - [Base] #17 - Georges St-Pierre vs Karo Parisyan, accessed September 21, 2026
Trading Card Database2009 Topps UFC Round 1 - Silver checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
Trading Card Database2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #17 Georges St-Pierre / Karo Parisyan, accessed September 21, 2026
SportsCardsPro2009 Topps UFC Round 1 checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
Cardboard Connection10 Georges St-Pierre Cards That Pack a Serious Punch, accessed September 21, 2026
NSListsUFC Round 1 (Topps, 2009) checklist, accessed September 21, 2026

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.