The rookie
2010 Topps UFC (Series 4) #147
Kimbo's first pack-issued base card and his rookie. It sits in the 200-card 2010 Topps UFC Series 4 set, released 24 September 2010, among the debut cards Topps grouped as rookies, and it was issued after his TUF 10 run and his December 2009 win over Houston Alexander and before the UFC 113 loss to Matt Mitrione that ended his UFC career. Because he has no other mainstream base card from his fighting years, this is the default Kimbo card for anyone building an MMA set.
Listings sometimes describe the 2010 Topps UFC #147 Gold or Bronze /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, and it is distinct again from the copies of the 2009 TUF autograph that Kimbo signed with his legal name.
- Earliest licensed card2009 Topps UFC Round 2 TUF Season 10 Autographs #TUF-KS High confidence
- First MMA card2009 Topps UFC Round 2 TUF Season 10 Autographs #TUF-KS High confidence
- First UFC card2009 Topps UFC Round 2 TUF Season 10 Autographs #TUF-KS High confidence
- First certified autograph2009 Topps UFC Round 2 TUF Season 10 Autographs #TUF-KS Verified
- Recognized rookie card2010 Topps UFC (Series 4) #147 High confidence
The evidence behind each
- 2009Earliest licensed card — Jeff Allender's House of Checklists lists 'TUF-KS Kimbo Slice' under a 'TUF Season 10 Autographs' heading in Round 2; PSA catalogues the card under the set name '2009 Topps UFC TUF Season 10 Autograph'; eBay's catalogue carries it as '2009 Topps UFC - The Ultimate Fighter Season 10 Autographs Kimbo Slice #TUF-KS'. MMAWeekly reported on 21 September 2009 that Topps had added Kimbo and fifteen other TUF 10 fighters to the product, and called it his first-ever autographed trading card. No earlier licensed Kimbo card exists.
- 2009First MMA card — Same card. EliteXC, where he made his name in 2007-2008, never had a licensed card set, so his cardboard begins with Topps' UFC licence.
- 2009First UFC card — Same card; 2009 Topps UFC Round 2 released 30 September 2009, and the TUF 10 signatures were added to it to coincide with the season's 17 September television premiere.
- 2009First certified autograph — MMAWeekly's September 2009 report calls it 'Kimbo Slice's first-ever autographed trading card' and notes the TUF 10 signatures were on-card. Blowout Buzz's write-up on Kimbo's card run states he has just one certified autograph and that he never signed any of the relic cards Topps produced afterwards.
- 2010Recognized rookie card — Topps designated debut cards inside the Series 4 base set: Cardboard Connection's checklist annotates those entries 'UFC Debut RC', and Jeff Allender's checklist files #147 under a 'Debut Rookie Cards' heading. eBay's catalogue title for the card reads '2010 Topps UFC Series 4 - Kimbo Slice #147 (RC)'. SportsCardsPro's rookie field answers 'No', which is the one dissent.
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 twelve months. MMAWeekly reported the signing programme that September and called it his first-ever autographed trading card; PSA catalogues the set and eBay's catalogue carries the card, so the number is well corroborated. A handful of copies are signed with his legal name, Kevin Ferguson, rather than 'Kimbo' — a signature variation of the same card, and markedly the rarer of the two.
2010 Topps UFC Series 4 is his only real base year and it is a busy one: base #147 in a 200-card set released 24 September 2010, with Gold, Silver /188, Bronze /88, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 parallels; a nickname variation of the same number, one of 25 in the set and given a print run of 250 by Jeff Allender's checklist, 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 Autograph Relic #UGA-KS numbered to 25. #147 is the rookie: Allender files it under the set's Debut Rookie Cards and eBay's catalogue tags it '(RC)', against SportsCardsPro's rookie field, which reads 'No'. 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 no licensed Bellator card programme ran 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. How much that is is contested: Blowout Buzz's account of his card run says he signed only the Round 2 TUF card and never signed any of the relic cards Topps made of him, which would leave the /25 Ultimate Gear Autograph Relic unsigned in practice.
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
2 certified autographs 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, out 24 September 2010, gave him his rookie at base #147 from the set's debut run, a 'Kevin Ferguson' nickname variation of the same number with a print run of 250, a Greats of the Game insert at #GTG-1, and an Ultimate Gear Autograph Relic #UGA-KS numbered to 25 whose signature is disputed. 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.
Rookie parallels
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; the 'Kevin Ferguson' signature variation is the rarer one
- 022010 Topps UFC #147 'Kevin Ferguson' nickname variation, print run 250
- 032010 Topps UFC Ultimate Gear Autograph Relics #UGA-KS /25 (hobby exclusive) — a signed copy would settle whether he ever signed the relics
- 042010 Topps UFC #147 Diamond 1/1, or the Ruby /8
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Kimbo Slice's rookie card: 2010 Topps UFC (Series 4) #147 — Kimbo Slice.
Topps built a debut subset into the 2010 Topps UFC Series 4 base set and annotated those cards as UFC Debut rookies, which is the closest thing to a manufacturer rookie designation anywhere in Kimbo's run: Cardboard Connection's checklist carries the annotation, Jeff Allender's House of Checklists files #147 under Debut Rookie Cards, and eBay's catalogue title for the card reads '2010 Topps UFC Series 4 - Kimbo Slice #147 (RC)'. SportsCardsPro's rookie field answers 'No', and it is alone in that. His earliest card is a year older and is recorded separately: 2009 Topps UFC Round 2, TUF Season 10 Autographs #TUF-KS, his only certified signature, which MMAWeekly reported on 21 September 2009 as his first-ever autographed trading card. Nothing earlier exists — 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.
- 2010 Topps UFC (Series 4), accessed September 21, 2026
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 twelve months. MMAWeekly reported the signing programme that September and called it his first-ever autographed trading card; PSA catalogues the set and eBay's catalogue carries the card, so the number is well corroborated. A handful of copies are signed with his legal name, Kevin Ferguson, rather than 'Kimbo' — a signature variation of the same card, and markedly the rarer of the two.
- 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 released 24 September 2010, with Gold, Silver /188, Bronze /88, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 parallels; a nickname variation of the same number, one of 25 in the set and given a print run of 250 by Jeff Allender's checklist, 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 Autograph Relic #UGA-KS numbered to 25. #147 is the rookie: Allender files it under the set's Debut Rookie Cards and eBay's catalogue tags it '(RC)', against SportsCardsPro's rookie field, which reads 'No'. 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 no licensed Bellator card programme ran 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. How much that is is contested: Blowout Buzz's account of his card run says he signed only the Round 2 TUF card and never signed any of the relic cards Topps made of him, which would leave the /25 Ultimate Gear Autograph Relic unsigned in practice.
- 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.
2010 Topps UFC (Series 4) #147 — Kimbo Slice.
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 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.