The rookie
2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #129
Her first card of any kind, and a landmark for the whole women's/Strikeforce side of the hobby: Moment of Truth (released 30 November 2011) was the first UFC-licensed set Topps allowed Strikeforce fighters into, alongside Cris Cyborg, Gilbert Melendez and Robbie Lawler. Tate was the reigning Strikeforce women's bantamweight champion at the time, four months after submitting Marloes Coenen, and had no licensed cardboard until this set.
Sellers describe the Gold, Onyx and Ruby versions of #129 as separate rookies; they are parallels of the same card.
- Earliest licensed card2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #129 Verified
- First MMA card2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #129 Verified
- First UFC card2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #129 Verified
- First certified autograph2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth Certified Signatures #CS-MT High confidence
- Recognized rookie card2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #129 Verified
The evidence behind each
- 2011Earliest licensed card — Cardboard Connection's Tate player guide states her first trading cards were released in 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth; MMA Rookies opens her vault entry with the same card; the product checklist confirms #129.
- 2011First MMA card — Cardboard Connection player guide plus MMA Rookies; no pre-2011 Strikeforce or independent MMA issue of her is catalogued.
- 2011First UFC card — Cardboard Connection states Moment of Truth carried 'the first Strikeforce cards in a UFC product' and names Miesha Tate among them.
- 2011First certified autograph — Cardboard Connection's 70-card Certified Signatures checklist lists CS-MT Miesha Tate; MMA Rookies records the same card as her first autograph.
- 2011Recognized rookie card — MMA Rookies names it her True Rookie Card with 'Other Rookies: None'; Cardboard Connection's player guide calls the same card 'Miesha Tate's de facto rookie card'. Two independent hobby authorities, no credible counter-claim.
Key Tate cards
12 cards chosen for significance, not completeness; autographs and numbered cards follow below.
Card history
Tate is the clearest case of the Strikeforce blackout in MMA cardboard. She won the Strikeforce women's bantamweight title in July 2011 by submitting Marloes Coenen and still had no licensed card, because Topps' UFC deal did not cover Strikeforce fighters. That ended on 30 November 2011, when 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth became the first UFC-licensed set to carry Strikeforce athletes — Tate, Cris Cyborg, Gilbert Melendez, Robbie Lawler — which is why her first base card and her first certified autograph arrive in the same product.
She is #129 in that 220-card base set, and it is her rookie card: MMA Rookies names it her True Rookie Card with no other rookies listed, and Cardboard Connection's player guide calls it her de facto rookie, dating her card debut to 2011. No 2010 issue of her exists to complicate matters — she is absent from the 100-card 2010 Leaf MMA base set. Sources do differ on the parallels: the product review gives Gold, Onyx /188, Ruby /8, Diamond 1/1 and printing plates, her player page says Gold, Black, Red and Diamond, and SportsCardsPro's variant labels add an Independence Edition. Her first certified autograph, Certified Signatures #CS-MT, reuses the #129 photograph and is sticker-signed, with the set's Red Ink run at /15; the first signature actually applied to a card is 2012 Knockout Fighter Autographs #FA-MT.
From there she is a Topps regular. Knockout #32 in 2012, the year Ronda Rousey took the Strikeforce belt off her with a first-round armbar; Bloodlines #143 in 2013, whose Dual Autographed Relics #BDAR-MT is her scarcest early signed piece at /10, recorded as a pairing with Sara McMann by one register and with no co-signer named by the other; then Champions #42 in 2014 and #95 in the 200-card 2015 edition, released 28 October 2015 with a ladder through Black /188, Blue /88, Gold /25, Red /8 and Platinum 1/1. The 2015 card is the last base card of her career printed before she was champion.
Her title year got the premium treatment. She beat Holly Holm at UFC 196 in March 2016 and Topps put her at #2 in the 45-card Museum Collection base set that November, where every parallel is serial numbered — Copper /135, Gold /75, Sapphire /50, Ruby /25 and an Emerald 1/1 — so even the common version of her championship-year card is limited. The Museum Collection Framed Autographs #MCC-MT is the hardest signature of the period: Gold Frame /15, Silver Frame /5, Black Frame 1/1. The same product also carries her Archival Autographs and several signature-swatch subsets.
Panini's UFC licence treated her as a legend rather than a roster fighter. 2021 Chronicles UFC, out 6 October, signed her for Origins Autographs — one register prints it #OA-MST, the checklist renders it as a bare sequence number — plus a Flux autograph, and Immaculate Collection paired her with Amanda Nunes, the fighter who took her belt at UFC 200, on Dual Autographs #DA-AMT. Her main modern chase card is 2022 Panini Prizm UFC #120, released 25 March 2022, whose ladder runs Red /299, Blue /199, Purple /149, Orange /99, Teal /49, Mojo /25, Gold /10, Octagon /8 and Black 1/1. A card register also places her in recent Topps product — 2025 Stadium Club UFC #117 and Chrome Autographs #CAS-MTE — though no second checklist confirms those numbers.
Autographs
6 certified autographs in the archive.
Card eras
Moment of Truth's 220-card base set was the first UFC release to include Strikeforce fighters, and Tate is #129. The same product gave her first autograph, the sticker-signed Certified Signatures #CS-MT.
Knockout #32 and Bloodlines #143 kept her on the annual checklists after the move to the UFC roster. 2012 Knockout also carried Fighter Autographs #FA-MT, her first on-card signature after the sticker-signed CS-MT, and Bloodlines produced her scarcest early signed piece, the Bloodlines Dual Autographed Relics #BDAR-MT numbered to 10.
Topps UFC Champions carried her at #42 in 2014 and #95 in the 200-card 2015 edition, with the usual Silver/Black /188/Blue /88/Gold /25/Red /8/Platinum 1/1 ladder in 2015.
She beat Holly Holm at UFC 196 in March 2016 and Topps put her at #2 in the 45-card Museum Collection base set that November. The Museum Collection Framed Autographs #MCC-MT is her toughest card of the period: Gold Frame /15, Silver Frame /5, Black Frame 1/1.
Panini's UFC licence treated her as a retired name: Chronicles Origins and Flux autographs in 2021, the Immaculate Dual Autographs #DA-AMT paired with Amanda Nunes, and a base card at #120 in the 200-card 2022 Prizm UFC set with its full colour ladder.
Collectibles.com and SportsCardsPro list her back in recent Topps UFC product — Stadium Club UFC #117 with Chrome Autographs #CAS-MTE, and Chrome UFC Allen & Ginter #AAG-6. Those are single-source here and are noted rather than catalogued as cards.
Rookie parallels
Sets
Where Tate's key cards come from.
- 20112011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth1 key card
- 20112011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth Certified Signatures1 key card
- 20122012 Topps UFC Knockout2 key cards
- 20132013 Topps UFC Bloodlines1 key card
- 20142014 Topps UFC Champions1 key card
- 20152015 Topps UFC Champions1 key card
- 20162016 Topps UFC Museum Collection2 key cards
- 20212021 Panini Chronicles UFC Origins Autographs1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Immaculate Collection UFC Dual Autographs1 key card
- 20222022 Panini Prizm UFC1 key card
Buying & wanted
- 012011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #129 in Ruby /8 or Diamond 1/1 — the rookie in its scarcest tiers
- 022011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth Certified Signatures #CS-MT, ideally the Red Ink version (Cardboard Connection lists Red Ink Certified Signatures at /15)
- 032013 Topps UFC Bloodlines Dual Autographed Relics #BDAR-MT /10
- 042021 Panini Immaculate Collection UFC Dual Autographs #DA-AMT — Tate signed alongside Amanda Nunes, the fighter who took her belt
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Miesha Tate's rookie card: 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #129 — Miesha Tate.
Cardboard Connection's Tate player guide calls 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #129 her 'de facto rookie card' and dates her trading-card debut to 2011. The same site's product review confirms she is on the 220-card base checklist at #129 and that this was the first UFC set to include Strikeforce fighters — which is why nothing earlier exists: she was a Strikeforce champion during a period when the Topps UFC licence did not cover that promotion. No pre-2011 licensed card turned up for her. She is not in the 100-card 2010 Leaf MMA base set: SportsCardsPro's set page for 2010 Leaf MMA lists 100 items alphabetically from Akihiro Gono through Takeya Mizugaki with no Tate row.
- Cardboard ConnectionMiesha Tate Cards, Rookie Cards and Memorabilia Guide, accessed September 23, 2026
- 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth, accessed September 21, 2026
- SportsCardsProMiesha Tate #129 — 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth, accessed September 23, 2026
- Collectibles.comMiesha Tate card register, accessed September 23, 2026
- SportsCardsPro2010 Leaf MMA set list (100 items; Eddie Alvarez #88), accessed September 23, 2026
Tate is the clearest case of the Strikeforce blackout in MMA cardboard. She won the Strikeforce women's bantamweight title in July 2011 by submitting Marloes Coenen and still had no licensed card, because Topps' UFC deal did not cover Strikeforce fighters. That ended on 30 November 2011, when 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth became the first UFC-licensed set to carry Strikeforce athletes — Tate, Cris Cyborg, Gilbert Melendez, Robbie Lawler — which is why her first base card and her first certified autograph arrive in the same product.
She is #129 in that 220-card base set, and it is her rookie card: MMA Rookies names it her True Rookie Card with no other rookies listed, and Cardboard Connection's player guide calls it her de facto rookie, dating her card debut to 2011. No 2010 issue of her exists to complicate matters — she is absent from the 100-card 2010 Leaf MMA base set. Sources do differ on the parallels: the product review gives Gold, Onyx /188, Ruby /8, Diamond 1/1 and printing plates, her player page says Gold, Black, Red and Diamond, and SportsCardsPro's variant labels add an Independence Edition. Her first certified autograph, Certified Signatures #CS-MT, reuses the #129 photograph and is sticker-signed, with the set's Red Ink run at /15; the first signature actually applied to a card is 2012 Knockout Fighter Autographs #FA-MT.
From there she is a Topps regular. Knockout #32 in 2012, the year Ronda Rousey took the Strikeforce belt off her with a first-round armbar; Bloodlines #143 in 2013, whose Dual Autographed Relics #BDAR-MT is her scarcest early signed piece at /10, recorded as a pairing with Sara McMann by one register and with no co-signer named by the other; then Champions #42 in 2014 and #95 in the 200-card 2015 edition, released 28 October 2015 with a ladder through Black /188, Blue /88, Gold /25, Red /8 and Platinum 1/1. The 2015 card is the last base card of her career printed before she was champion.
- Cardboard Connection2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines, accessed September 23, 2026
- Cardboard Connection2015 Topps UFC Champions — set info and checklist, accessed September 22, 2026
- Collectibles.comMiesha Tate card register, accessed September 23, 2026
Her title year got the premium treatment. She beat Holly Holm at UFC 196 in March 2016 and Topps put her at #2 in the 45-card Museum Collection base set that November, where every parallel is serial numbered — Copper /135, Gold /75, Sapphire /50, Ruby /25 and an Emerald 1/1 — so even the common version of her championship-year card is limited. The Museum Collection Framed Autographs #MCC-MT is the hardest signature of the period: Gold Frame /15, Silver Frame /5, Black Frame 1/1. The same product also carries her Archival Autographs and several signature-swatch subsets.
Panini's UFC licence treated her as a legend rather than a roster fighter. 2021 Chronicles UFC, out 6 October, signed her for Origins Autographs — one register prints it #OA-MST, the checklist renders it as a bare sequence number — plus a Flux autograph, and Immaculate Collection paired her with Amanda Nunes, the fighter who took her belt at UFC 200, on Dual Autographs #DA-AMT. Her main modern chase card is 2022 Panini Prizm UFC #120, released 25 March 2022, whose ladder runs Red /299, Blue /199, Purple /149, Orange /99, Teal /49, Mojo /25, Gold /10, Octagon /8 and Black 1/1. A card register also places her in recent Topps product — 2025 Stadium Club UFC #117 and Chrome Autographs #CAS-MTE — though no second checklist confirms those numbers.
2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #129 — Miesha Tate.
2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth Certified Signatures #CS-MT — Miesha Tate.
2012 Topps UFC Knockout #32 — Miesha Tate.
- Collectibles.comMiesha Tate card register, accessed September 23, 2026
- SportsCardsProMiesha Tate #32 — 2012 Topps UFC Knockout, accessed September 23, 2026
2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines #BDAR-MT — Miesha Tate / Sara McMann.
- Cardboard Connection2013 Topps UFC Bloodlines, accessed September 23, 2026
- Collectibles.comMiesha Tate card register, accessed September 23, 2026
2014 Topps UFC Champions #42 — Miesha Tate.
2015 Topps UFC Champions #95 — Miesha Tate.
- Cardboard Connection2015 Topps UFC Champions — set info and checklist, accessed September 22, 2026
- Collectibles.comMiesha Tate card register, accessed September 23, 2026
2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection #2 — Miesha Tate.
2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection #MCC-MT — Miesha Tate.
- Cardboard Connection2016 Topps UFC Museum Collection: Set Info, Checklist, Boxes, accessed September 22, 2026
- Collectibles.comMiesha Tate card register, accessed September 23, 2026
2021 Panini Chronicles UFC Origins Autographs #OA-MST — Miesha Tate.
2021 Panini Immaculate Collection UFC Dual Autographs #DA-AMT — Amanda Nunes / Miesha Tate.
2022 Panini Prizm UFC #120 — Miesha Tate.
2012 Topps UFC Knockout #FA-MT — Miesha Tate.