The earliest card
2009 Topps UFC Round 2 TUF Season 10 Autographs #TUF-KS
The earliest licensed Kimbo Slice card located anywhere, and his first certified autograph. Topps signed the whole 16-man Ultimate Fighter 10 heavyweight cast for Round 2 — Kimbo, Roy Nelson, Matt Mitrione, Brendan Schaub, Marcus Jones and the rest — which means Kimbo's card history begins with a signature rather than a base card. He died in June 2016, so the pool of genuine Kimbo autographs is fixed and this is the first of them.
The Round 2 TUF Season 10 Autographs subset, and Kimbo's #TUF-KS within it, could only be confirmed from one reachable source (nslists.com / Jeff Allender's House of Checklists). Cardboard Connection's Round 2 review describes a signed 16-contestant subset but ties it to 'The Ultimate Fighter #9 Series' rather than naming Season 10 or Kimbo, and SportsCardsPro has no page for the subset under any slug tried. Collectors who require a pack-issued base card will name 2010 Topps UFC #147 as the rookie instead.
Listings sometimes describe the 2010 Topps UFC #147 Gold or Onyx /88 parallels as 'the rookie'; they are parallels of #147. The 'Kevin Ferguson' card is also occasionally sold as a separate rookie — it is the nickname variation of the same #147.
Key Slice cards
9 cards chosen for significance, not completeness; autographs and numbered cards follow below.
Card history
For most of 2008 Kimbo was the most recognisable fighter in MMA, and none of it reached cardboard. EliteXC headlined him on network television and folded in October 2008 without ever licensing a card set, and the era's main non-UFC MMA insert, the 30-card Ring Kings subset in 2008 Donruss Americana II, leaves him off entirely — Couture, Arlovski, Forrest Griffin, Faber, Carano and Bas Rutten are all on that checklist and the biggest draw in the sport is not.
His first licensed card is an autograph, which is unusual. Topps signed the whole 16-man Ultimate Fighter 10 heavyweight cast for 2009 Topps UFC Round 2, released 30 September 2009, and #TUF-KS in that TUF Season 10 Autographs subset predates his first base card by about fourteen months. Only one checklist names the subset and his card within it, so the number is not independently confirmed.
2010 Topps UFC Series 4 is his only real base year and it is a busy one: base #147 in a 200-card set with Gold, Onyx /88, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 parallels; a short-printed nickname variation of the same number, print run 250, that swaps the ring name for his legal name, Kevin Ferguson; the Greats of the Game insert at #GTG-1, leading the insert off despite his having won a single UFC fight; and the hobby-exclusive Ultimate Gear Autographs #UGA-KS numbered to 25. Whether #147 is a rookie card is unsettled — no Kimbo card is confirmed to carry an RC logo, and SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'No' while sale titles on the same page call it a rookie. He is not in 2010 Topps UFC Knockout.
Then nothing for fifteen years. He beat Ken Shamrock at Bellator 138 in June 2015 and Dada 5000 at Bellator 149 in February 2016, and Bellator ran no card programme in those years, so none of that exists on cardboard. He died on 6 June 2016, which fixes the supply of certified Kimbo signatures permanently at what Topps produced in 2009 and 2010 — the Round 2 TUF autograph and the /25 Ultimate Gear card.
PFL's acquisition of the Bellator library brought him back nine years after his death. 2025 Panini Contenders PFL has him at Season Ticket #3, the base card a full rainbow hangs off down to a Season Ticket Black 1/1 and a Championship Ticket 1/1, plus a Superstar Die-Cut at #10 in a 20-card insert with no numbered parallels. 2026 adds Legendary Contenders #11, a 15-card legends insert with its own ladder from Silver /99 to Platinum 1/1. A 2026 Season Ticket base card at #83 is listed by one checklist and absent from another, so treat it as unconfirmed. He is not in 2025 Panini Combat Anthology.
Autographs
1 certified autograph in the archive.
Card eras
The YouTube-brawler-turned-EliteXC-headliner drew the biggest MMA audiences on network television, but EliteXC folded in October 2008 without ever licensing a card set. The era's main non-UFC MMA insert, Ring Kings in 2008 Donruss Americana II, runs 30 cards and does not include him.
2009 Topps UFC Round 2 (released 30 September 2009) carried a 16-card TUF Season 10 Autographs subset for the heavyweight cast, and #TUF-KS is Kimbo's first licensed trading card of any kind — an autograph that arrived a year before his first base card.
2010 Topps UFC Series 4 gave him base #147, a 'Kevin Ferguson' nickname variation of the same number numbered to 250, a Greats of the Game insert at #GTG-1, and Ultimate Gear Autographs #UGA-KS numbered to 25. He is not in 2010 Topps UFC Knockout.
He beat Ken Shamrock at Bellator 138 in June 2015 and Dada 5000 at Bellator 149 in February 2016 (later a no contest), but Bellator had no trading card programme in those years. He died on 6 June 2016, closing the book on new signatures.
Sets
Where Slice's key cards come from.
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 2 TUF Season 10 Autographs1 key card
- 20102010 Topps UFC (Series 4)1 key card
- 20102010 Topps UFC Series 4 Nickname Variation Base Cards1 key card
- 20102010 Topps UFC Series 4 Greats of the Game1 key card
- 20102010 Topps UFC Series 4 Ultimate Gear Autographs1 key card
- 20252025 Panini Contenders PFL1 key card
- 20252025 Panini Contenders PFL Superstar Die-Cuts1 key card
- 20262026 Panini Contenders PFL1 key card
- 20262026 Panini Contenders PFL Legendary Contenders1 key card
Buying & wanted
- 012009 Topps UFC Round 2 TUF Season 10 Autographs #TUF-KS — his first licensed card and first certified autograph
- 022010 Topps UFC #147 'Kevin Ferguson' nickname variation, print run 250
- 032010 Topps UFC Ultimate Gear Autographs #UGA-KS /25 (hobby exclusive)
- 042010 Topps UFC #147 Diamond 1/1, or the Ruby /8
Nothing from this archive in the vault right now. Selling one?
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Kimbo Slice's earliest card: 2009 Topps UFC Round 2 TUF Season 10 Autographs #TUF-KS — Kimbo Slice.
No Kimbo Slice card has been confirmed to carry an RC logo, and SportsCardsPro's rookie-card data field on 2010 Topps UFC #147 reads 'No', so this is an 'earliest card' situation rather than a rookie-card one. The earliest licensed Kimbo card located is 2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #TUF-KS, from the product's TUF Season 10 Autographs subset (Round 2 released 30 September 2009; Cardboard Connection's review describes a 16-contestant signed subset, and the TUF 10 cast was 16 heavyweights). His first base card came a year later, in 2010 Topps UFC Series 4 at #147. Nothing earlier was found: EliteXC had no licensed card issue, and the 30-card Ring Kings insert in 2008 Donruss Americana II does not include him.
- Jeff Allender's House of ChecklistsUFC Round 2 (2009 Topps) checklist, accessed September 22, 2026
- 2010 Topps UFC Series 4 Nickname Variation Base Cards, accessed September 23, 2026
- SportsCardsProKimbo Slice #147, 2010 Topps UFC, accessed September 23, 2026
- NS ListsAmericana II (Donruss) checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
- Cardboard Connection2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Review, accessed September 20, 2026 Source for parallel structure, insert sets and box configuration. Internally inconsistent on Onyx serial numbering (base /188 vs insert /88) — see claim-r2-onyx.
For most of 2008 Kimbo was the most recognisable fighter in MMA, and none of it reached cardboard. EliteXC headlined him on network television and folded in October 2008 without ever licensing a card set, and the era's main non-UFC MMA insert, the 30-card Ring Kings subset in 2008 Donruss Americana II, leaves him off entirely — Couture, Arlovski, Forrest Griffin, Faber, Carano and Bas Rutten are all on that checklist and the biggest draw in the sport is not.
His first licensed card is an autograph, which is unusual. Topps signed the whole 16-man Ultimate Fighter 10 heavyweight cast for 2009 Topps UFC Round 2, released 30 September 2009, and #TUF-KS in that TUF Season 10 Autographs subset predates his first base card by about fourteen months. Only one checklist names the subset and his card within it, so the number is not independently confirmed.
- Jeff Allender's House of ChecklistsUFC Round 2 (2009 Topps) checklist, accessed September 22, 2026
- Cardboard Connection2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Review, accessed September 20, 2026 Source for parallel structure, insert sets and box configuration. Internally inconsistent on Onyx serial numbering (base /188 vs insert /88) — see claim-r2-onyx.
2010 Topps UFC Series 4 is his only real base year and it is a busy one: base #147 in a 200-card set with Gold, Onyx /88, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 parallels; a short-printed nickname variation of the same number, print run 250, that swaps the ring name for his legal name, Kevin Ferguson; the Greats of the Game insert at #GTG-1, leading the insert off despite his having won a single UFC fight; and the hobby-exclusive Ultimate Gear Autographs #UGA-KS numbered to 25. Whether #147 is a rookie card is unsettled — no Kimbo card is confirmed to carry an RC logo, and SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'No' while sale titles on the same page call it a rookie. He is not in 2010 Topps UFC Knockout.
Then nothing for fifteen years. He beat Ken Shamrock at Bellator 138 in June 2015 and Dada 5000 at Bellator 149 in February 2016, and Bellator ran no card programme in those years, so none of that exists on cardboard. He died on 6 June 2016, which fixes the supply of certified Kimbo signatures permanently at what Topps produced in 2009 and 2010 — the Round 2 TUF autograph and the /25 Ultimate Gear card.
- Jeff Allender's House of ChecklistsUFC Round 2 (2009 Topps) checklist, accessed September 22, 2026
- 2010 Topps UFC Series 4 Nickname Variation Base Cards, accessed September 23, 2026
- SportsCardsProKimbo Slice #147, 2010 Topps UFC, accessed September 23, 2026
- NS ListsAmericana II (Donruss) checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
- Cardboard Connection2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Review, accessed September 20, 2026 Source for parallel structure, insert sets and box configuration. Internally inconsistent on Onyx serial numbering (base /188 vs insert /88) — see claim-r2-onyx.
PFL's acquisition of the Bellator library brought him back nine years after his death. 2025 Panini Contenders PFL has him at Season Ticket #3, the base card a full rainbow hangs off down to a Season Ticket Black 1/1 and a Championship Ticket 1/1, plus a Superstar Die-Cut at #10 in a 20-card insert with no numbered parallels. 2026 adds Legendary Contenders #11, a 15-card legends insert with its own ladder from Silver /99 to Platinum 1/1. A 2026 Season Ticket base card at #83 is listed by one checklist and absent from another, so treat it as unconfirmed. He is not in 2025 Panini Combat Anthology.
2009 Topps UFC Round 2 TUF Season 10 Autographs #TUF-KS — Kimbo Slice.
- Jeff Allender's House of ChecklistsUFC Round 2 (2009 Topps) checklist, accessed September 22, 2026
- Cardboard Connection2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Review, accessed September 20, 2026 Source for parallel structure, insert sets and box configuration. Internally inconsistent on Onyx serial numbering (base /188 vs insert /88) — see claim-r2-onyx.
2010 Topps UFC (Series 4) #147 — Kimbo Slice.
2010 Topps UFC Series 4 Nickname Variation Base Cards #147 — Kimbo Slice.
2010 Topps UFC Series 4 Greats of the Game #GTG-1 — Kimbo Slice.
2010 Topps UFC Series 4 Ultimate Gear Autographs #UGA-KS — Kimbo Slice.
2025 Panini Contenders PFL #3 — Kimbo Slice.
2025 Panini Contenders PFL Superstar Die-Cuts #10 — Kimbo Slice.
2026 Panini Contenders PFL #83 — Kimbo Slice.
2026 Panini Contenders PFL Legendary Contenders #11 — Kimbo Slice.