Why this is the earliest card
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.
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.
Identifying it
- Card number carries the TUF- prefix; Kimbo is TUF-KS
- Part of a 16-card subset matching the TUF 10 heavyweight cast (TUF-AW Abe Wagner through TUF-ZJ Zak Jensen)
- Round 2 base set runs 1-150; this subset's lettered numbering is separate from it
- Sits alongside a separate TUF Season 9 Autographs subset in the same product — check the prefix letters against the cast, not just the 'TUF' prefix
Grading & population
Population figures will be taken directly from the grading companies and dated when they are. None are shown yet.
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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.
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.
Only nslists.com names the subset 'TUF Season 10 Autographs' and lists TUF-KS Kimbo Slice. Cardboard Connection's Round 2 review mentions a 16-contestant signed subset but attributes it to 'The Ultimate Fighter #9 Series'. SportsCardsPro has no page for the subset under the slugs tried, and collectibles.com's Round 2 set page does not surface it. Whether the signature is on-card or on a sticker is not stated by any source reached.
- 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.
Go deeper
- The card record2009 Topps UFC Round 2 TUF Season 10 Autographs #TUF-KS
- Kimbo Slice archiveKey cards and eras