Holly Holm
Rookie Card

Which card is the rookie, how to tell it, and what gets mistaken for it.

The answer2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100
SubjectHolly Holm
Year2015
ManufacturerTopps
ConfidenceHigh confidence
Print runUnknown — not estimated

High confidence×2View sources & research

Why this is the rookie

The archive's pick is right and can now be stated as a rookie card rather than merely her earliest. MMA Rookies designates 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100 her True Rookie Card and lists 2015 Topps UFC Champions #149 and 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #268 as her other rookie cards; Collectibles.com's register agrees that she debuted as a rookie in 2015. Cardboard Connection's checklist confirms the card number and a 22 April 2015 release, six months ahead of Champions and nine ahead of Chronicles, which shipped 3 February 2016 despite its 2015 label.

Holm's rookie card and her first trading card of any kind, 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'.

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.

Identifying it

Card number 100 — the last card of the 100-card base set.
Base parallels for the product run Silver /199, Gold /99, Red /8 and Mat 1/1; a card without a stamped serial is the unnumbered base.
The FightCardboard set record for 2015 Topps UFC Knockout independently gives the same 22 April 2015 release and the same parallel ladder.

Parallels

Base

—

Unnumbered

Mat

1/1

High confidence

Red

High confidence

Gold

/99

High confidence

Silver

/199

High confidence

Card milestones

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

Earliest licensed card2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100 High confidence
First MMA card2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100 High confidence
First UFC card2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100 High confidence
First certified autograph2017 Topps UFC Museum Collection Framed Autographs #FA-HH High confidence
Recognized rookie card2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100 High confidence

The evidence behind each

2015Earliest licensed card — Cardboard Connection's 2015 Topps UFC Knockout page gives a 22 April 2015 release, a 100-card base set and '#100 Holly Holm'. Collectibles.com's Holm register shows 2015 as her earliest year and lists no boxing issues despite an eleven-year professional boxing career; MMA Rookies opens her entry with the same card.
2015First MMA card — No boxing-licensed Holm card appears in Collectibles.com's register or in any reachable checklist, so her Topps UFC debut is also her first card.
2015First UFC card — Cardboard Connection checklist and release date; the previous Topps product, 2014 Topps UFC Bloodlines (17 December 2014), predates her UFC debut and does not list her.
2017First certified autograph — MMA Rookies records '2017 Topps Museum Collection UFC — Museum Collection Framed Autographs Gold #FA-HH' as both her first autograph and her first on-card autograph, and Cardboard Connection's 2017 Museum Collection page confirms FA-HH in the 26-card Framed Autographs checklist. This settles it ahead of the identically coded 2018 Topps Chrome UFC Autographs #FA-HH.
2015Recognized rookie card — MMA Rookies names it her True Rookie Card and lists 2015 Topps UFC Champions #149 and 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #268 as her other rookie cards; Collectibles.com states she 'debuted as a Rookie in 2015'.

Grading & population

Population figures will be taken directly from the grading companies and dated when they are. None are shown yet.

Sources & research High confidence×2

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

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

MMA Rookies designates 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #100 her True Rookie Card and lists 2015 Topps UFC Champions #149 and 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #268 as her other rookie cards; Collectibles.com's register agrees that she debuted as a rookie in 2015. Cardboard Connection confirms the card number and a 22 April 2015 release, roughly eight weeks after her UFC 184 debut and six months ahead of Champions, with Chronicles further behind again — it carries a 2015 label but shipped on 3 February 2016. It is also her earliest card: no licensed Holm card of any kind, boxing, MMA or multi-sport, has been documented before it, and Cardboard Connection's 2014 Topps UFC Bloodlines checklist (17 December 2014) does not contain her, which closes off the most likely pre-2015 possibility. No RC logo is printed on the card and SportsCardsPro's field reads 'Is Rookie Card: No' for both of her 2015 base cards, which is the dissent.