Payton Talbott
Rookie Card

Which card is actually the rookie, how to tell it, and what gets mistaken for it.

The answer2025 Topps Chrome UFC #141
SubjectPayton Talbott
Year2025
ManufacturerTopps
ConfidenceVerified
Print runUnknown — not estimated

Why this is the rookie

TCDB flags five 2025 Talbott cards RC. The earliest is 2025 Topps Chrome UFC #141, released June 27, 2025 per Checklist Insider, which also marks it RC. The card itself carries Topps' RC logo, and MMA Rookies names it his 'True Rookie Card'. TCDB lists no cards before 2025, so there are no Panini-era cards of him.

Talbott's first card: 2025 Topps Chrome UFC released June 27, 2025 (Checklist Insider), the earliest of his five RC-flagged 2025 cards in TCDB. A Sapphire Edition version of #141 followed on July 25, 2025.

Commonly misidentified

The Sapphire #141 gets listed as a separate 'rookie' even though it's a premium version of the same card. The CRA-PT autograph carries an RC logo but doesn't appear in TCDB's RC-filtered list.

Identifying it

Card #141 with an 'RC' octagon logo top left
Red-to-blue chrome frame, UFC tab at top centre
Nameplate 'PAYTON TALBOTT / BANTAMWEIGHT' above the Topps Chrome logo
Base is non-refractor chrome

What gets mistaken for it

What you'll read	What's true
2025 Topps Chrome Sapphire Edition UFC #141 is the rookie.	Same card in the separate Sapphire product, released July 25, 2025 (Checklist Insider). It's treated as a premium version of #141.
2025 Topps Knockout UFC #37 is the rookie.	RC-flagged, but it came later in 2025.
2025 Topps Midnight UFC #9 / 2025 Stadium Club UFC #26 is the rookie.	RC-flagged by TCDB, but they came later. Beckett dates Stadium Club UFC to January 23, 2026.

Parallels

Base

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Unnumbered

Sapphire Edition

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High confidence

Gold Sapphire

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Probable

Green Sapphire

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Probable

Grading & population

Population figures will be taken directly from the grading companies and dated when they are. None are shown yet.

Sources & research Verified×2

Every factual claim on this page, the evidence behind it, and an honest confidence level. Where sources disagree the disagreement is kept, not quietly resolved.

Verified

Payton Talbott's rookie card: 2025 Topps Chrome UFC #141 — Payton Talbott.

Trading Card DatabasePayton Talbott 2025 RC-flagged cards, accessed September 21, 2026
MMA RookiesTalbott, Payton | RC, accessed September 21, 2026
2025 Topps Chrome UFC, accessed September 21, 2026
Checklist Insider2025 Topps Chrome Sapphire UFC Checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
SportsCardsProPayton Talbott #141 — 2025 Topps Chrome UFC, accessed September 21, 2026