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Joanna Jędrzejczyk

Jedrzejczyk is the rare modern champion whose card history starts late: Topps ran three UFC products in 2014, the year she debuted and went 3-0, and put her in none of them. Her rookie card is 2015 Topps UFC Champions #15, released 28 October 2015, seven months after she took the strawweight belt off Carla Esparza — and the sticker-signed Fighter Autographs FA-JJ from the same product is her first certified signature, with the on-card Museum Collection Archival Autographs #AA-JJ following a year later. The volume arrives in 2021 with Panini's Prizm and Select, long after she had stopped being champion, which is why a fighter with five title defences has a thinner early run than her record suggests.

2015Rookie year
#15Rookie card
12Key cards
  • UFC debutJuly 26, 2014 · UFC on Fox: Lawler vs. Brown
  • DivisionsStrawweight · Flyweight
  • FromOlsztyn, Poland
Rookie card
2015 Topps UFC Champions #15 Joanna Jedrzejczyk — front
#15
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The rookie

2015 Topps UFC Champions #15 Joanna Jedrzejczyk — front
#15
Rookie card

2015 Topps UFC Champions #15

The starting point of Joanna Jedrzejczyk's card history. Topps skipped her through all three of its 2014 UFC products even though she debuted in the UFC in July 2014, so nothing exists before this: the 2015 Topps UFC Champions base set, released 28 October 2015, is where the first Polish UFC champion finally appears on cardboard, seven months into a title reign that ran to five defences. Because the print run is a standard Topps base card and she is card #15 of 200, raw copies are common; the chased versions are the numbered parallels.

Commonly misidentified

Sellers occasionally advertise the 2021 Panini Prizm UFC #180 or 2021 Panini Chronicles UFC cards as rookies because they are from Panini's first licensed UFC year. Her cards start in 2015.

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Card milestones

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

The evidence behind each
  • 2015Earliest licensed card — Cardboard Connection's 2015 Topps UFC Champions page gives a 28 October 2015 release, a 200-card base set and '#15 Joanna Jedrzejczyk'; MMA Rookies opens her vault entry with the same card. No Polish-market, Muay Thai or IFMA issue of her appears in any catalogued checklist.
  • 2015First MMA card — Same sources; nothing from her Muay Thai years is catalogued.
  • 2015First UFC card — Cardboard Connection checklist; the three 2014 Topps UFC products (Knockout 16 May, Champions 17 September, Bloodlines 17 December) do not list her.
  • 2015First certified autograph — Cardboard Connection's 73-card Fighter Autographs checklist lists FA-JJ Joanna Jedrzejczyk; MMA Rookies records the same card as her first autograph. MMA Rookies separately names 2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection Archival Autographs #AA-JJ as her first on-card autograph, which implies FA-JJ is a sticker signature.
  • 2015Recognized rookie card — MMA Rookies names it her True Rookie Card and lists 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #246 as her only other rookie card; Collectibles.com states she 'debuted as a Rookie in 2015'.
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Key Jędrzejczyk cards

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

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Card history

Jedrzejczyk debuted in the UFC on July 26, 2014 and won three times that year, and Topps ran three UFC products across the same twelve months without carding her once: Knockout on May 16, Champions on September 17 and Bloodlines on December 17 all skip her. There is no 2014 Jedrzejczyk card, and no Polish-market or Muay Thai issue predating her UFC run turned up on any checklist or dealer page. Her cardboard starts seven months into a title reign that would run to five defences.

2015 Topps UFC Champions, released October 28, 2015, is the whole foundation. Base #15 out of 200 is her rookie card — MMA Rookies designates it her True Rookie Card with 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #246 as her only other rookie, and Collectibles.com's register gives 2015 as her rookie year — with Black /188, Blue /88, Gold /25, Red /8 and Platinum 1/1 above it. Fighter Autographs FA-JJ, from the 73-card signature checklist, is her first certified signature, though the signatures in that subset are on clear stickers rather than on the card. Championship Clashes CC-10 pairs her with Carla Esparza, the card of the UFC 185 TKO that made her the first Polish UFC champion.

2015 Topps UFC Chronicles carries the 2015 branding but shipped February 3, 2016, and it went back and filled the hole Topps had left. Base #246 sits in a 275-card retrospective with a deeper ladder than Champions — Green /288 and Black and White /188 under Gold /88, Red /8 and a Sepia 1/1 — and the Victorious Debut insert VD-22 finally cards the debut win over Juliana Lima that nobody carded at the time. The same checklist gives her a Victorious Debut Autograph numbered /25 and a manufactured medallion, MED-18.

She lost the belt to Rose Namajunas at UFC 217 on November 4, 2017, and the middle of her run is the thin part. Topps held the UFC licence into 2019, but no Chrome or Museum Collection base card of her from those championship years is catalogued here with a confirmed number. Her signature work in the period comes down to one card: 2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection Archival Autographs #AA-JJ, released November 30, 2016, serial numbered /99 with Gold /25, Ruby /10 and Emerald 1/1 above it and signed directly on the card — Cardboard Connection's review singles out the 'massive signing area' that let her fit her full surname on it. After that nothing signed appears until Panini takes over, long after she had left the title picture.

2021 Panini Prizm UFC, April 28, 2021, puts her at base #180 in the horizontal half with the deepest colour ladder she has — sixteen tiers down to Gold /10 and Black 1/1 — plus the case-hit Color Blast #8, Fireworks #7 with its own Black Prizms version, Fearless #5 and Instant Impact #13. Select followed on July 30 with three tiers off one checklist slot, Concourse #45, Premier Level #141 and the short-printed Octagonside #205, and Select Signatures #42 /99, her first serial-numbered autograph. Her Hall of Fame inductions then brought the high-end treatment: Topps Royalty UFC has her on base #35, Relic Jewels RCJ-5, Superior Relic Signatures SRS-JJ, Influential Ink IIA-JJK and a Prodigious Pairings dual with Zhang Weili for the UFC 248 fight that put both of them in the Fight Wing.

Sources for every paragraph

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Autographs

3 certified autographs in the archive.

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Card eras

2014
The year with no cards

She debuted in the UFC on 26 July 2014 and won three times in her first year, but Topps' 2014 Knockout (16 May), Champions (17 September) and Bloodlines (17 December) checklists all skip her. There is no 2014 Jedrzejczyk card to find.

2015
First card and first autograph

2015 Topps UFC Champions, out 28 October 2015, carries base #15, the Championship Clashes CC-10 pairing with Carla Esparza, and Fighter Autographs FA-JJ. Everything a Jedrzejczyk collection is built on comes out of this one product.

2016
Chronicles fills the gap

2015 Topps UFC Chronicles shipped on 3 February 2016 with base #246 and a Victorious Debut insert (VD-22) that finally cards the UFC debut win over Juliana Lima, plus a Victorious Debut Autograph numbered /25 and a MED-18 medallion. That November, Museum Collection gave her the on-card Archival Autographs #AA-JJ /99 — her first signature applied to a card rather than a sticker.

2017
Reign ends, Topps era ends with it

She lost the belt to Rose Namajunas at UFC 217 on 4 November 2017. Topps kept making UFC cards through 2019 before losing the licence, but no Chrome or Museum Collection base card of her from those championship years is catalogued here with a confirmed number, and no independent database confirmation of one has been found.

2021
Panini goes heavy

The first licensed Panini UFC products put her everywhere: Prizm base #180 with a sixteen-tier rainbow, the Color Blast #8 and Fireworks #7 inserts, Select at three tiers (#45, #141, #205) and Select Signatures #42 /99, her first numbered autograph.

2024–2026
Hall of Fame

Modern Wing induction in 2024 and a Fight Wing induction in 2026 for the UFC 248 war with Zhang Weili. Topps Royalty responds with base #35, Relic Jewels RCJ-5, Superior Relic Signatures SRS-JJ, Influential Ink IIA-JJK and a Prodigious Pairings dual with Weili.

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Rookie parallels

Base
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Unnumbered
Platinum
1/1
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Red
/8
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Gold
/25
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Blue
/88
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down to /188 · 1 unnumbered
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Sets

Where Jędrzejczyk's key cards come from.

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Buying & wanted

Wanted by FightCardboard
  • 012015 Topps UFC Champions Fighter Autographs FA-JJ — her first certified autograph, and the only signed card she had for six years
  • 022015 Topps UFC Champions #15 Gold /25 or Red /8 — the numbered versions of her first card
  • 032021 Panini Prizm UFC Color Blast #8 — the case-hit insert collectors name first when they want a modern Jedrzejczyk
  • 042024 Topps Royalty UFC Superior Relic Signatures SRS-JJ — the Hall of Fame-era signed relic

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Joanna Jędrzejczyk's rookie card: 2015 Topps UFC Champions #15 — Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

MMA Rookies designates 2015 Topps UFC Champions #15 her True Rookie Card, with 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #246 as her only other rookie card, and Collectibles.com's register gives 2015 as her rookie year. Cardboard Connection's checklist confirms the number and a 28 October 2015 release; Chronicles carries a 2015 label but did not ship until 3 February 2016. It is also her earliest card in any product, licensed MMA or otherwise: Topps' three 2014 UFC releases were each read against a checklist and none includes her — Knockout (16 May 2014, before her UFC debut), Champions (17 September 2014) and Bloodlines (17 December 2014). No RC logo is printed on the card and SportsCardsPro's structured field for it reads 'Is Rookie Card: No', which is the single dissent.

High confidence

Jedrzejczyk debuted in the UFC on July 26, 2014 and won three times that year, and Topps ran three UFC products across the same twelve months without carding her once: Knockout on May 16, Champions on September 17 and Bloodlines on December 17 all skip her. There is no 2014 Jedrzejczyk card, and no Polish-market or Muay Thai issue predating her UFC run turned up on any checklist or dealer page. Her cardboard starts seven months into a title reign that would run to five defences.

High confidence

2015 Topps UFC Champions, released October 28, 2015, is the whole foundation. Base #15 out of 200 is her rookie card — MMA Rookies designates it her True Rookie Card with 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #246 as her only other rookie, and Collectibles.com's register gives 2015 as her rookie year — with Black /188, Blue /88, Gold /25, Red /8 and Platinum 1/1 above it. Fighter Autographs FA-JJ, from the 73-card signature checklist, is her first certified signature, though the signatures in that subset are on clear stickers rather than on the card. Championship Clashes CC-10 pairs her with Carla Esparza, the card of the UFC 185 TKO that made her the first Polish UFC champion.

High confidence

2015 Topps UFC Chronicles carries the 2015 branding but shipped February 3, 2016, and it went back and filled the hole Topps had left. Base #246 sits in a 275-card retrospective with a deeper ladder than Champions — Green /288 and Black and White /188 under Gold /88, Red /8 and a Sepia 1/1 — and the Victorious Debut insert VD-22 finally cards the debut win over Juliana Lima that nobody carded at the time. The same checklist gives her a Victorious Debut Autograph numbered /25 and a manufactured medallion, MED-18.

High confidence

She lost the belt to Rose Namajunas at UFC 217 on November 4, 2017, and the middle of her run is the thin part. Topps held the UFC licence into 2019, but no Chrome or Museum Collection base card of her from those championship years is catalogued here with a confirmed number. Her signature work in the period comes down to one card: 2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection Archival Autographs #AA-JJ, released November 30, 2016, serial numbered /99 with Gold /25, Ruby /10 and Emerald 1/1 above it and signed directly on the card — Cardboard Connection's review singles out the 'massive signing area' that let her fit her full surname on it. After that nothing signed appears until Panini takes over, long after she had left the title picture.

High confidence

2021 Panini Prizm UFC, April 28, 2021, puts her at base #180 in the horizontal half with the deepest colour ladder she has — sixteen tiers down to Gold /10 and Black 1/1 — plus the case-hit Color Blast #8, Fireworks #7 with its own Black Prizms version, Fearless #5 and Instant Impact #13. Select followed on July 30 with three tiers off one checklist slot, Concourse #45, Premier Level #141 and the short-printed Octagonside #205, and Select Signatures #42 /99, her first serial-numbered autograph. Her Hall of Fame inductions then brought the high-end treatment: Topps Royalty UFC has her on base #35, Relic Jewels RCJ-5, Superior Relic Signatures SRS-JJ, Influential Ink IIA-JJK and a Prodigious Pairings dual with Zhang Weili for the UFC 248 fight that put both of them in the Fight Wing.

High confidence

2015 Topps UFC Champions #15 — Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

High confidence

2015 Topps UFC Champions Fighter Autographs #FA-JJ — Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

Probable

2015 Topps UFC Champions Championship Clashes #CC-10 — Joanna Jedrzejczyk / Carla Esparza.

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2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #246 — Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

Probable

2015 Topps UFC Chronicles Victorious Debut #VD-22 — Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

High confidence

2021 Panini Prizm UFC — Color Blast #8 — Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

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2021 Panini Prizm UFC Fireworks #7 — Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

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2021 Panini Select UFC #45 — Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

Probable

2021 Panini Select UFC Signatures #42 — Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

Probable

2024 Topps Royalty UFC #35 — Joanna Jedrzejczyk.