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Holly Holm

Holm is the rare fighter who was a world champion for a decade before she had a single trading card. She boxed professionally from 2002 to 2013, won titles under the WBA, WBC, IBA and WBF and was Ring Magazine's female fighter of the year in 2005 and 2006, and no licensed boxing card of her turned up in any checklist source reachable for this research — her cardboard starts with 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100, printed about eight weeks after her UFC debut. The odder gap is the autograph one: she knocked Ronda Rousey out in November 2015 and still had no certified signature until the 2017 Topps UFC Museum Collection framed autographs shipped in February 2018.

2015First card year
#100Earliest card
12Key cards
  • UFC debutFebruary 28, 2015 · UFC 184
  • DivisionsBantamweight · Featherweight
  • FromAlbuquerque, New Mexico
#100
01

The earliest card

#100
Earliest card Rookie disputed

2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100

The first Holly Holm trading card of any kind that could be documented, from a product Cardboard Connection dates to 22 April 2015 — about eight weeks after her UFC 184 debut and seven months before she knocked out Ronda Rousey. She occupies #100, the final slot in the 100-card base checklist, which is where late checklist additions usually land. Its Mat 1/1 parallel is the single most chased piece of Holm cardboard; Collectibles.com's page for her headlines the '2015 Topps UFC Knockout Mat #100'.

Where sources disagree

Collectibles.com's Holly Holm register states 'Holly Holm debuted as a Rookie in 2015' but does not name a card; SportsCardsPro marks her 2015 base cards 'Is Rookie Card: No'. Cardboard Connection has no Holly Holm player guide (its /player/holly-holm URL returns 404), so the usual tiebreaker is missing. The release-order argument for Knockout #100 rests on Cardboard Connection's dates alone.

Commonly misidentified

Sellers describe the 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100 Silver /199 and Gold /99 as 'the rookie'; they are parallels of the same card. Collectibles.com's automated 'Top Rookie Cards' block for Holm lists 2025 Topps Midnight UFC Glimmer Graphs autographs, which are not rookie cards by any reading.

02

Key Holm cards

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

03

Card history

Holm was a world champion for a decade before she had a single trading card. She boxed professionally from 2002 to 2013, held titles under the WBA, WBC, IBA and WBF and was Ring Magazine's female fighter of the year in 2005 and 2006, and no licensed boxing card of her turns up in any reachable checklist — a negative finding rather than a certainty, since women's boxing of that period is thinly catalogued. Topps also skipped her in 2014 Topps UFC Bloodlines, released 17 December 2014, although she had already signed. Her cardboard starts with 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100, out 22 April 2015 and about eight weeks after her UFC 184 debut, in the last slot of a 100-card checklist.

There is no rookie card as such. No Holm card is shown to carry an RC logo, and SportsCardsPro's detail field reads 'Is Rookie Card: No' for both 2015 base cards, while Collectibles.com states she 'debuted as a Rookie in 2015' without naming one — so the archive records Knockout #100 as her earliest card rather than her rookie. Its Mat 1/1 is the most chased piece of Holm cardboard, above Silver /199, Gold /99 and Red /8. Her other 2015 base card, Champions #149, sits in a 200-card set with a ladder to Platinum 1/1 and has no autograph, relic or insert beside it.

The head kick that took the bantamweight title off Ronda Rousey landed on 15 November 2015, too early for a card of its own — Topps Now UFC did not start until 2016. What followed instead was 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #268, which despite its product year shipped on 3 February 2016 and carries her base-only, with no place in the Chronicles Autographs, Victorious Debut Autographs or Octagon of Honor Autographs checklists. 2016 Topps UFC Knockout then opened at #1 with her, a year after she had arrived at #100 in the same annual product; it was locked while she was champion and released on 30 March 2016, three and a half weeks after she lost the belt to Miesha Tate. Museum Collection put her at #41 in a 45-card base set and in the hand-painted Canvas Collection Originals 1/1 subset.

The stranger gap is the autograph one. 2017 Topps Chrome UFC #95, out 20 September 2017 with a refractor ladder to SuperFractor 1/1, and 2017 Knockout #46 are both base-only, and she is absent from every autograph and relic checklist in the 2015, 2016 and 2017 Topps UFC products. Her earliest certified signature is the 2017 Museum Collection Framed Autographs #FA-HH, an on-card case hit that did not ship until 28 February 2018 and exists only as Gold Frame /15, Silver Frame /5 and Black Frame 1/1 — a total population of 21. Sources disagree on which card to call her first: Collectibles.com's register holds the 2018 Topps Chrome UFC autograph, released 19 September 2018 and carrying the same FA-HH code, as the earliest it records. That 2018 Chrome release also finally gave the UFC 193 knockout a card of its own, Notable Knockouts #NK-HH, nearly three years after the fight.

2019 Topps UFC Knockout, out 8 May, gave her base #54, an autographed jumbo fight mat relic #AJM-HH and the dual autographed jumbo mat book #DAJF-JH /10 shared with Cris Cyborg — the scarcest Holm card with a documented print run. Panini's first licensed Prizm UFC, released 28 April 2021, then put her at base #4 and handed her the #1 card of its Knockout Artists insert, the same lead position Topps had given her in 2016. Her widest single-product footprint is 2023 Panini Select UFC, out 21 July 2023, which spreads her across Concourse #44, Octagonside #253, a Snapshots insert, a Sparks relic and the Octagon Action Signatures autograph, whose ladder runs Flash, Red /99, Blue /75, Purple /49, Tie-Dye /25, Gold and Gold Flash /10 to Black and Cracked Ice 1/1s.

Sources for every paragraph

04

Autographs

4 certified autographs in the archive.

05

Card eras

2015
First cards, eight weeks after the UFC debut

Topps skipped her entirely in 2014 Topps UFC Bloodlines (17 December 2014) even though she had already signed with the UFC. Her first licensed card is 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100, released 22 April 2015, the last slot in a 100-card checklist; 2015 Topps UFC Champions #149 followed later in the year.

2016
Champion on cardboard

The UFC 193 head kick landed on 15 November 2015, too late for a Topps Now UFC card — that line did not start until 2016. Instead she got 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #268 (released 3 February 2016), the #1 slot in 2016 Topps UFC Knockout (30 March 2016, weeks after she lost the belt to Miesha Tate at UFC 196) and #41 in the 45-card 2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection.

2017
Chrome, still no signature

2017 Topps UFC Chrome #95 (20 September 2017) and 2017 Topps UFC Knockout #46 are both base-only; she is absent from every autograph and relic checklist in the 2015, 2016 and 2017 Topps UFC products that could be checked.

2018
First certified autographs

The 2017 Topps UFC Museum Collection did not ship until 28 February 2018, and its Framed Autographs FA-HH (Gold Frame /15, Silver Frame /5, Black Frame 1/1, a case hit) is the earliest certified Holm signature found. 2018 Topps Chrome UFC followed on 19 September with Athlete Autographs FA-HH and the Notable Knockouts insert NK-HH, the card built around the Rousey knockout.

2019
Book cards

2019 Topps UFC Knockout (8 May 2019) gave her base #54, an autographed jumbo fight mat relic AJM-HH and the dual autographed jumbo relic book DAJF-JH /10 shared with Cris Cyborg — the pairing the archive already records from the Cyborg side.

2021–2023
The Panini era

Panini's first licensed Prizm UFC (28 April 2021) put her at base #4 and gave the Knockout Artists insert its #1 card to her, plus her first Panini signature. 2023 Panini Select UFC (21 July 2023) spread her across Concourse #44, Octagonside #253, a Snapshots insert, a Sparks relic and the Octagon Action Signatures autograph.

06

Parallels of this card

Base
Unnumbered
Silver
/199
High confidence
Gold
/99
High confidence
Red
/8
High confidence
Mat
1/1
High confidence
07

Sets

Where Holm's key cards come from.

08

Buying & wanted

Wanted by FightCardboard
  • 012015 Topps UFC Knockout #100 Mat 1/1 — the one-of-one parallel of her first licensed card
  • 022017 Topps UFC Museum Collection Framed Autographs FA-HH Silver Frame /5 — her earliest certified autograph, and a case hit
  • 032018 Topps Chrome UFC Notable Knockouts #NK-HH — the UFC 193 card
  • 042019 Topps UFC Knockout Dual Autographed Jumbo Fight Mat Relic Book DAJF-JH /10, Holm and Cris Cyborg

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Sources & research High confidence×11Probable×7

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

Holly Holm's earliest card: 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100 — Holly Holm.

No source consulted shows an RC logo or an RC flag on any Holly Holm card, and SportsCardsPro's card detail field reads 'Is Rookie Card: No' for both of her 2015 base cards. So this is recorded as her earliest significant card rather than a designated rookie. 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100 is the pick: Cardboard Connection dates the product to 22 April 2015, roughly eight weeks after her UFC 184 debut, and no earlier licensed Holm card of any kind — boxing, MMA or multi-sport — could be found. Cardboard Connection's 2014 Topps UFC Bloodlines checklist (17 December 2014) does not contain her, which closes off the most likely pre-2015 possibility.

High confidence

Holm was a world champion for a decade before she had a single trading card. She boxed professionally from 2002 to 2013, held titles under the WBA, WBC, IBA and WBF and was Ring Magazine's female fighter of the year in 2005 and 2006, and no licensed boxing card of her turns up in any reachable checklist — a negative finding rather than a certainty, since women's boxing of that period is thinly catalogued. Topps also skipped her in 2014 Topps UFC Bloodlines, released 17 December 2014, although she had already signed. Her cardboard starts with 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100, out 22 April 2015 and about eight weeks after her UFC 184 debut, in the last slot of a 100-card checklist.

High confidence

There is no rookie card as such. No Holm card is shown to carry an RC logo, and SportsCardsPro's detail field reads 'Is Rookie Card: No' for both 2015 base cards, while Collectibles.com states she 'debuted as a Rookie in 2015' without naming one — so the archive records Knockout #100 as her earliest card rather than her rookie. Its Mat 1/1 is the most chased piece of Holm cardboard, above Silver /199, Gold /99 and Red /8. Her other 2015 base card, Champions #149, sits in a 200-card set with a ladder to Platinum 1/1 and has no autograph, relic or insert beside it.

High confidence

The head kick that took the bantamweight title off Ronda Rousey landed on 15 November 2015, too early for a card of its own — Topps Now UFC did not start until 2016. What followed instead was 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #268, which despite its product year shipped on 3 February 2016 and carries her base-only, with no place in the Chronicles Autographs, Victorious Debut Autographs or Octagon of Honor Autographs checklists. 2016 Topps UFC Knockout then opened at #1 with her, a year after she had arrived at #100 in the same annual product; it was locked while she was champion and released on 30 March 2016, three and a half weeks after she lost the belt to Miesha Tate. Museum Collection put her at #41 in a 45-card base set and in the hand-painted Canvas Collection Originals 1/1 subset.

High confidence

The stranger gap is the autograph one. 2017 Topps Chrome UFC #95, out 20 September 2017 with a refractor ladder to SuperFractor 1/1, and 2017 Knockout #46 are both base-only, and she is absent from every autograph and relic checklist in the 2015, 2016 and 2017 Topps UFC products. Her earliest certified signature is the 2017 Museum Collection Framed Autographs #FA-HH, an on-card case hit that did not ship until 28 February 2018 and exists only as Gold Frame /15, Silver Frame /5 and Black Frame 1/1 — a total population of 21. Sources disagree on which card to call her first: Collectibles.com's register holds the 2018 Topps Chrome UFC autograph, released 19 September 2018 and carrying the same FA-HH code, as the earliest it records. That 2018 Chrome release also finally gave the UFC 193 knockout a card of its own, Notable Knockouts #NK-HH, nearly three years after the fight.

High confidence

2019 Topps UFC Knockout, out 8 May, gave her base #54, an autographed jumbo fight mat relic #AJM-HH and the dual autographed jumbo mat book #DAJF-JH /10 shared with Cris Cyborg — the scarcest Holm card with a documented print run. Panini's first licensed Prizm UFC, released 28 April 2021, then put her at base #4 and handed her the #1 card of its Knockout Artists insert, the same lead position Topps had given her in 2016. Her widest single-product footprint is 2023 Panini Select UFC, out 21 July 2023, which spreads her across Concourse #44, Octagonside #253, a Snapshots insert, a Sparks relic and the Octagon Action Signatures autograph, whose ladder runs Flash, Red /99, Blue /75, Purple /49, Tie-Dye /25, Gold and Gold Flash /10 to Black and Cracked Ice 1/1s.

Probable

2016 Topps UFC Knockout #1 — Holly Holm.

Probable

2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection #41 — Holly Holm.

High confidence

2017 Topps Chrome UFC #95 — Holly Holm.

Probable

2017 Topps UFC Museum Collection Framed Autographs #FA-HH — Holly Holm.

High confidence

2018 Topps Chrome UFC Athlete Autographs #FA-HH — Holly Holm.

Probable

2018 Topps Chrome UFC Notable Knockouts #NK-HH — Holly Holm.

High confidence

2019 Topps UFC Knockout Dual Autographed Jumbo Fight Mat Relic Books #DAJF-JH — Holly Holm / Cris Cyborg.

High confidence

2021 Panini Prizm UFC Knockout Artists #1 — Holly Holm.

Probable

2023 Panini Select UFC — Octagon Action Signatures #OA-HHM — Holly Holm.