Collector profile

Nate Diaz

Diaz's card story starts with a shared fight card: 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #66 recreates his TUF 5 Finale win over Manny Gamburyan and is the rookie TCDB and MMA Rookies point to. From there, Topps' 2010–2012 products give him a stamped '1st Autograph', Finest refractors and a Diaz-brothers dual relic. Panini's 2021 run adds a Prizm base that shows him punching Conor McGregor.

2009Rookie year

#66Rookie card

9Key cards

UFC debutJune 23, 2007 · The Ultimate Fighter 5 Finale
DivisionsLightweight · Welterweight
StatusActive · MVP (Most Valuable Promotions) (as of Sept 2026)
FromStockton, California, U.S.

Rookie card

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #66 Nate Diaz / Manny Gamburyan — front

#66

The rookie

#66

Rookie card

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #66

Diaz's first licensed card: a horizontal 'UFC Debut' fight card recreating his June 23, 2007 TUF 5 Finale win over Manny Gamburyan. It shares the fight with #67, but #66 is the one that bills Diaz first, and both TCDB and MMA Rookies treat it as the rookie.

Commonly misidentified

#66 and #67 get mixed up in listings. #67 reads 'Manny Gamburyan vs Nate Diaz'. Round 2 #3 is also often sold as 'the' rookie because it's his first solo card, and the 2010 FA-ND auto is sometimes called an 'RC auto'. SportsCardsPro's 'Is Rookie Card: No' field on #66 doesn't match TCDB's RC flag.

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Rookie card guide Card record

Key Diaz cards

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

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #67 Nate Diaz / Manny Gamburyan — front

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #67 Rookie

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #3 Nate Diaz — front

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #3 Rookie

2011 Finest UFC #37

2017 Topps Chrome UFC #55

2021 Panini Prizm UFC #115

Autographs

2 certified autographs in the archive.

2010 Topps UFC (Series 4) #FA-ND Nate Diaz — front

2010Topps UFC (Series 4) #FA-ND Auto

2021 Panini Prizm UFC #OS-NDZ Nate Diaz — front

2021Panini Prizm UFC #OS-NDZ Auto

Numbered & parallels

Serial-numbered cards and parallels with their own record.

BDR-DD 2012

Nate Diaz / Nick Diaz

2012 Topps UFC Bloodlines

Photograph to come

2012Topps UFC Bloodlines #BDR-DD Relic/88

Card eras

2009

TUF 5 debut cards

Round 1 gives him two shared 'UFC Debut' cards of the Gamburyan fight (#66, #67) plus Top 10 Fights of 2008 and Victorious Debut inserts. Round 2 #3 is his first solo RC.

2010–2012

Topps hit era

His first certified autograph (2010 Topps UFC FA-ND, stamped '1st Autograph'), Knockout and Main Event autos and relics, 2011 and 2012 Finest refractors, and 2012 Bloodlines, including a Diaz-brothers dual relic /88.

2013–2018

Chrome and the McGregor years

Topps keeps him in its flagship products, and 2017 Topps Chrome UFC #55 is his card from the year after the McGregor fights, with Green /99 down to Black /10 refractors.

2021–2022

Panini era

Prizm #115 (with McGregor in frame), Octagon Signatures OS-NDZ, Chronicles and Select. Immaculate added a Masvidal/Diaz dual autograph, and TCDB lists no Diaz cards after 2022.

Rookie parallels

Base

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Unnumbered

Gold

—

High confidence

Silver

/288

High confidence

Red

1/1

High confidence

Sets

Where Diaz's key cards come from.

20092009 Topps UFC Round 12 key cards
20092009 Topps UFC Round 21 key card
20102010 Topps UFC (Series 4)1 key card
20112011 Finest UFC1 key card
20122012 Topps UFC Bloodlines1 key card
20172017 Topps Chrome UFC1 key card
20212021 Panini Prizm UFC2 key cards

Buying & wanted

Wanted by FightCardboard

012009 Topps UFC Round 1 #66 Nate Diaz / Manny Gamburyan RC, especially the Silver /288 or the Red 1/1
022010 Topps UFC (Series 4) Fighter Autograph #FA-ND ('1st Autograph'), plus the Onyx /88 and Ruby /8 versions
032012 Topps UFC Bloodlines Dual Relics #BDR-DD Nate & Nick Diaz /88
042021 Panini Immaculate UFC Dual Autographs Jorge Masvidal / Nate Diaz (card number not confirmed)

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Research

Sets

Why 2009 Topps UFC Matters

Two products, released seven months apart, that hold the first UFC-licensed cards of almost every name from the sport's first era.

September 21, 2026

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Nate Diaz's rookie card: 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #66 — Nate Diaz / Manny Gamburyan.

TCDB's 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 rookie list flags #66 (Nate Diaz / Manny Gamburyan) RC, and MMA Rookies names it his 'True Rookie Card', with Round 2 #3 as an 'other rookie'. Round 1 was his first licensed set: TCDB lists no Diaz cards before 2009, and the Round 1 cards recreate his June 23, 2007 TUF 5 Finale debut.