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Henry Cejudo

Cejudo is the rare UFC name whose first licensed card has nothing to do with fighting: Topps put him in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team & Hopefuls set at #33, complete with a signed version and an Olympic Team relic, a year before he had a professional MMA bout. The hobby rookie is 2015 Topps UFC Champions #169, and it is later than people expect — he debuted in the UFC in December 2014 but missed 2014 Knockout, 2015 Knockout and the 275-card Chronicles base set. His signature run is unusual too: the Olympic autograph from 2012 predates his first UFC-licensed signature by four years.

2015Rookie year
#169Rookie card
12Key cards
  • UFC debutDecember 13, 2014 · UFC on Fox 13
  • DivisionsFlyweight · Bantamweight
  • FromLos Angeles, California
Rookie card#169
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The rookie case

#169
Rookie card · working pick Rookie disputed

2015 Topps UFC Champions #169

The card the hobby treats as Cejudo's rookie. He debuted in the UFC on 13 December 2014 and missed every 2014 and early-2015 Topps release, so his first UFC-licensed card is base #169 in a 200-card Champions set that shipped on 28 October 2015. The same product also gave him a Fighting's Future prospect insert, which is why 2015 reads as his rookie year rather than 2016.

Where sources disagree

There is no printed RC logo to settle it. SportsCardsPro's rookie data field for #169 says 'No' while Collectibles.com dates his rookie year to 2015; because Topps UFC never flagged rookies in this period, the pick rests on 'first UFC-licensed card' rather than on any manufacturer designation. A collector who counts all licensed cardboard rather than MMA-only cardboard would name the 2012 Topps Olympic #33 instead.

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Rookie card case Card record
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Key Cejudo cards

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

2012 Topps U.S. Olympic Team & Hopefuls #33
2012 Topps U.S. Olympic Team & Hopefuls #OR-HC Relic
2015 Topps UFC Champions #FF-HC
2019 Topps Chrome UFC #48
2020 Topps UFC Knockout #4
2022 Panini Prizm UFC #105
2022 Panini Select UFC #42
2024 Topps Chrome UFC #73
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Card history

Cejudo's first licensed card has nothing to do with fighting. Topps put him at #33 in the 100-card 2012 U.S. Olympic Team & Hopefuls set, four years after the Beijing gold and nine months before his professional MMA debut, as a wrestler rather than a fighter. The same product gave him his first certified autograph - the 50-card signed subset shares the base numbering, so he is #33 there too, with Bronze /50, Silver /30 and Gold /15 tiers - and four memorabilia cards, among them the Olympic Team relic OR-HC in Bronze /75, Silver /50 and Gold /25. It is the only Olympic Topps issue that carries him; the 2016 set does not.

The MMA hobby starts him much later than people expect. He debuted in the UFC on 13 December 2014 and is absent from 2014 Topps UFC Knockout, from 2015 Topps UFC Knockout that April and from the 275-card 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles base set, so his first UFC-licensed card is base #169 in the 200-card Topps UFC Champions, released 28 October 2015, with Black /188, Blue /88, Gold /25, Red /8 and Platinum 1/1 parallels and a Fighting's Future prospect insert FF-HC beside it. Topps UFC printed no RC logo in this period, so nothing on the card says rookie: SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'No' while Collectibles.com dates his rookie year to 2015, and the pick rests on first-licensed-card rather than on any manufacturer designation.

His signature run is back to front. There is no Cejudo autograph in 2015 Champions and none in the 49-card autograph checklist of 2016 Topps UFC Knockout, which gave him base #9 and nothing signed; the first signature inside a UFC-licensed product is Museum Collection's Archival Autographs AA-HC, alongside base #36, with Gold /25, Ruby /10 and an Emerald 1/1. That puts his Olympic autograph four years ahead of his first UFC one.

The two-division years are where the good material is. The inaugural Topps UFC Chrome release on 11 September 2019, three months after he beat Marlon Moraes for the bantamweight belt, put him at base #48 in a 100-card set with the full refractor ladder from Green /99 down to Red /5 and a SuperFractor, the Fighter Autographs FA-HC signed while he held both titles, and a 1984 Topps design autograph 84T-HC numbered to five. 2020 Topps UFC Knockout caught him at the moment he walked away holding a belt: base #4, his lowest number in any UFC set, backed by a Knockout Auto Relic, an Auto Jumbo Fight Mat Relic and a One-Two Combination relic.

Panini issued him while he was retired. 2022 Prizm UFC #105, out 25 March 2022, carries the deepest parallel ladder of his career - more than twenty tiers from unnumbered Silver through Red /299, Purple /149, Orange /99, Teal /49, Gold /10 and Octagon /8 to Black 1/1 - with Champion Signatures #5 in the same product, and Select UFC put him in the Concourse tier at #42 with Signatures #21 and Sparks Relics #17. When Topps reclaimed the licence he came back at 2024 Topps Chrome UFC #73 on 20 March 2024, after the comeback fight with Aljamain Sterling, in a base set twice the size of the 2019 Chrome checklist and with the Marks of Champions autograph MOC-HCE as the signature to chase.

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Autographs

3 certified autographs in the archive.

2012Topps U.S. Olympic Team & Hopefuls Autographs #33 Auto
2016Topps UFC Museum Collection #AA-HC Auto
2019Topps Chrome UFC #FA-HC Auto
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Card eras

2012
Olympic gold on cardboard

Topps U.S. Olympic Team & Hopefuls gave him base #33, a Games of the XXX Olympiad chase card, an autograph at #33 with Bronze /50, Silver /30 and Gold /15 tiers, and four memorabilia cards including the OR-HC Olympic Team relic. All of it predates his MMA debut.

2015
First UFC cards

Topps UFC Champions, out 28 October 2015, is where he enters the MMA hobby — base #169 and the Fighting's Future prospect insert #FF-HC. Nothing earlier exists on the UFC side.

2016
First UFC signature

Museum Collection put him at base #36 and gave him Archival Autographs #AA-HC with Gold /25, Ruby /10 and Emerald 1/1 — the earliest Cejudo autograph inside a UFC-licensed product. Topps UFC Knockout added base #9 but no signature.

2019
Double champ, first chrome

The inaugural Topps UFC Chrome release landed three months after he took the bantamweight belt: base #48, Fighter Autographs #FA-HC, an Octagon of Honor card and a 1984 Topps autograph #84T-HC numbered to 5.

2020
Retiring as champion

Topps UFC Knockout #4 catches him at the moment he walked away holding a belt, backed by Knockout Auto Relic #KAR-HC, Auto Jumbo Fight Mat Relic #AJR-HC and a One-Two Combination relic.

2022
Panini era

Prizm UFC #105 and Select UFC Concourse #42 both arrived in 2022, along with Prizm Champion Signatures #5, Select Signatures #21 and Select Sparks Relics #17. The Prizm rainbow is the deepest parallel ladder of his career.

2024
Topps returns

Topps Chrome UFC #73 in the reclaimed licence, with Marks of Champions autograph #MOC-HCE and a full refractor ladder down to a SuperFractor.

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Rookie parallels

Base
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Unnumbered
Silver
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Black
/188
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Blue
/88
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Gold
/25
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Red
/8
High confidence
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Sets

Where Cejudo's key cards come from.

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Buying & wanted

Wanted by FightCardboard
  • 012012 Topps U.S. Olympic Team & Hopefuls Autographs #33 Gold #/15 — his first certified autograph, signed as an Olympic champion
  • 022019 Topps UFC Chrome 1984 Topps Autographs #84T-HC #/5
  • 032015 Topps UFC Champions #169 in Gold #/25 or Red #/8 — numbered parallels of the rookie
  • 042012 Topps U.S. Olympic Team & Hopefuls Relics #OR-HC Gold #/25

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Henry Cejudo's rookie card: 2015 Topps UFC Champions #169 — Henry Cejudo.

2015 Topps UFC Champions #169 is his first card in a UFC-licensed product, released 28 October 2015. Cardboard Connection's Champions checklist places him in the base set and in the Fighting's Future rising-stars insert, and SportsCardsPro has a dedicated product page for 'Henry Cejudo #169 | 2015 Topps UFC Champions'. The negative checks matter as much: Cardboard Connection's checklists show he is absent from 2014 Topps UFC Knockout, from 2015 Topps UFC Knockout (22 April 2015) and from the 275-card 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles base set, so nothing UFC-licensed precedes it despite his December 2014 UFC debut. Collectibles.com states outright that 'Henry Cejudo debuted as a Rookie in 2015'. The caveat is that Topps UFC products of this era printed no RC logo, so there is no rookie marking on the card itself, and SportsCardsPro's structured rookie field reads 'No'.

High confidence

Cejudo's first licensed card has nothing to do with fighting. Topps put him at #33 in the 100-card 2012 U.S. Olympic Team & Hopefuls set, four years after the Beijing gold and nine months before his professional MMA debut, as a wrestler rather than a fighter. The same product gave him his first certified autograph - the 50-card signed subset shares the base numbering, so he is #33 there too, with Bronze /50, Silver /30 and Gold /15 tiers - and four memorabilia cards, among them the Olympic Team relic OR-HC in Bronze /75, Silver /50 and Gold /25. It is the only Olympic Topps issue that carries him; the 2016 set does not.

High confidence

The MMA hobby starts him much later than people expect. He debuted in the UFC on 13 December 2014 and is absent from 2014 Topps UFC Knockout, from 2015 Topps UFC Knockout that April and from the 275-card 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles base set, so his first UFC-licensed card is base #169 in the 200-card Topps UFC Champions, released 28 October 2015, with Black /188, Blue /88, Gold /25, Red /8 and Platinum 1/1 parallels and a Fighting's Future prospect insert FF-HC beside it. Topps UFC printed no RC logo in this period, so nothing on the card says rookie: SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'No' while Collectibles.com dates his rookie year to 2015, and the pick rests on first-licensed-card rather than on any manufacturer designation.

High confidence

His signature run is back to front. There is no Cejudo autograph in 2015 Champions and none in the 49-card autograph checklist of 2016 Topps UFC Knockout, which gave him base #9 and nothing signed; the first signature inside a UFC-licensed product is Museum Collection's Archival Autographs AA-HC, alongside base #36, with Gold /25, Ruby /10 and an Emerald 1/1. That puts his Olympic autograph four years ahead of his first UFC one.

High confidence

The two-division years are where the good material is. The inaugural Topps UFC Chrome release on 11 September 2019, three months after he beat Marlon Moraes for the bantamweight belt, put him at base #48 in a 100-card set with the full refractor ladder from Green /99 down to Red /5 and a SuperFractor, the Fighter Autographs FA-HC signed while he held both titles, and a 1984 Topps design autograph 84T-HC numbered to five. 2020 Topps UFC Knockout caught him at the moment he walked away holding a belt: base #4, his lowest number in any UFC set, backed by a Knockout Auto Relic, an Auto Jumbo Fight Mat Relic and a One-Two Combination relic.

High confidence

Panini issued him while he was retired. 2022 Prizm UFC #105, out 25 March 2022, carries the deepest parallel ladder of his career - more than twenty tiers from unnumbered Silver through Red /299, Purple /149, Orange /99, Teal /49, Gold /10 and Octagon /8 to Black 1/1 - with Champion Signatures #5 in the same product, and Select UFC put him in the Concourse tier at #42 with Signatures #21 and Sparks Relics #17. When Topps reclaimed the licence he came back at 2024 Topps Chrome UFC #73 on 20 March 2024, after the comeback fight with Aljamain Sterling, in a base set twice the size of the 2019 Chrome checklist and with the Marks of Champions autograph MOC-HCE as the signature to chase.

High confidence

2015 Topps UFC Champions #169 — Henry Cejudo.

High confidence

2012 Topps U.S. Olympic Team & Hopefuls #33 — Henry Cejudo.

High confidence

2012 Topps U.S. Olympic Team & Hopefuls Autographs #33 — Henry Cejudo.

High confidence

2012 Topps U.S. Olympic Team & Hopefuls #OR-HC — Henry Cejudo.

Probable

2015 Topps UFC Champions #FF-HC — Henry Cejudo.

Probable

2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection #AA-HC — Henry Cejudo.

High confidence

2019 Topps Chrome UFC #48 — Henry Cejudo.

High confidence

2019 Topps Chrome UFC #FA-HC — Henry Cejudo.

High confidence

2020 Topps UFC Knockout #4 — Henry Cejudo.

High confidence

2022 Panini Prizm UFC #105 — Henry Cejudo.

Probable

2022 Panini Select UFC #42 — Henry Cejudo.

High confidence

2024 Topps Chrome UFC #73 — Henry Cejudo.