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Working pick
2015 Topps UFC Champions #169 Henry Cejudo — front
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Henry Cejudo
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The candidates, the evidence for each, and which card FightCardboard treats as the working pick.

  • Working pick2015 Topps UFC Champions #169
  • SubjectHenry Cejudo
  • Year2015
  • ManufacturerTopps
  • ConfidenceProbable
  • Print runUnknown — not estimated
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Why this is the working pick

2015 Topps UFC Champions #169 stays the pick. Cardboard Connection's checklist confirms it as his first card in a UFC-licensed product, and the negative checks hold up: he is not in 2014 Topps UFC Knockout, not in the April 2015 Knockout release and not in the 275-card 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles base set. What is missing is a designation. Topps printed no RC logo on UFC cards in this period, SportsCardsPro's rookie field for #169 answers 'No', and the only database dating his rookie year to 2015 does not name a card, so the pick rests on chronology and hobby usage rather than on any authority.

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.

Identifying it

  • Card #169 in a 200-card base set released 28 October 2015
  • Silver is the common parallel; Black #/188, Blue #/88, Gold #/25, Red #/8 and Platinum 1/1 are the numbered tiers
  • Cejudo is shown as a flyweight; he had fought only twice in the UFC when the set was printed

What gets mistaken for it

What you'll readWhat's true
Cejudo has a 2014 Topps UFC rookie card because he debuted in December 2014.He is absent from both 2014 Topps UFC Knockout and 2015 Topps UFC Knockout (April 2015), and from the 275-card 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles base set. Champions #169 in October 2015 is his first.

Parallels

Base
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Unnumbered
Platinum
1/1
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Red
/8
High confidence
Gold
/25
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Blue
/88
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+2 more
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down to /188 · 1 unnumbered

Card milestones

Five separate questions, kept separate. How these are defined.

The evidence behind each
  • 2012Earliest licensed card — Cardboard Connection's checklist for the 100-card set lists '#33 Henry Cejudo', and Jeff Allender's House of Checklists gives the same number. Marketplace copies of the Bronze, Silver and Gold parallels of #33 confirm it. Nothing licensed precedes it: Topps had no U.S. Olympic product for the 2008 Beijing games where he won gold.
  • 2015First MMA card — Cardboard Connection's Champions checklist places him at #169 in the 200-card base set and in the Fighting's Future insert at #FF-HC; SportsCardsPro carries a product page for #169. He is absent from the 2014 and 2015 Topps UFC Knockout checklists and from 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles, and no non-UFC MMA product carries him, so this is his first MMA card of any kind.
  • 2015First UFC card — Same card; Champions shipped 28 October 2015, ten months after his UFC debut. Cardboard Connection's checklists for the earlier 2014 and 2015 Topps UFC products do not carry him.
  • 2016First certified autograph — Checklist Center's 2016 Museum Collection checklist lists 'AA-HC Henry Cejudo' in Archival Autographs with Gold #/25, Ruby #/10 and Emerald 1/1 parallels, and dates the release 30 November 2016. Cardboard Connection's 2015 Champions checklist shows no Cejudo entry in any of that product's six autograph subsets, and he is not among the 50 autograph subjects in 2012 Topps U.S. Olympic Team.
  • 2015Recognized rookie card — Collectibles.com dates his rookie year to 2015 and Cardboard Connection confirms #169 as his first UFC-licensed card, but SportsCardsPro's rookie field for the card answers 'No' and Topps UFC releases of this period carried no RC logo. Hobby ordering supports the pick; no authority states it.

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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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.

Probable

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

2015 Topps UFC Champions #169 — Henry Cejudo.

Uncertain

SportsCardsPro's structured 'Rookie' field for this card says 'No'. Topps UFC releases of this period carried no RC logo, so there is no printed rookie designation to point at; the rookie claim rests on it being his first UFC-licensed card and on Collectibles.com dating his rookie year to 2015.

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