The earliest card
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2006 PRIDE FC #093
The Japanese PRIDE set is where Rampage's card history actually begins, two years before any American manufacturer issued him. It catches him in the PRIDE run that made his name — the 2003 grand prix, the Chuck Liddell win, the Wanderlei Silva losses — rather than in a UFC uniform. Anyone assembling a complete Jackson run has to go through Japanese sellers or graded slabs to start it.
- Earliest licensed card2006 PRIDE FC #093 Uncertain
- First MMA card2006 PRIDE FC #093 Probable
- First UFC card2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #58 High confidence
- First certified autograph2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's Framed Mini Autographs #AGA-RJ Probable
- Recognized rookie cardNone documented Uncertain
The evidence behind each
- 2006Earliest licensed card — Two independently graded copies (a BGS 9.5 and a PSA 8) are catalogued at #93 in the 2006 PRIDE FC set, and Cardbase's page for that set confirms the release and its roughly 142-card base run. No Jackson card earlier than 2006 appears in Cardbase, Collectibles.com or SportsCardsPro.
- 2006First MMA card — Same card. The 2006 DSE PRIDE release is the first MMA-licensed product to carry him; graded copies are the only checklist evidence for the number, since no full checklist for the set is published outside Cardbase.
- 2009First UFC card — Jeff Allender's House of Checklists lists '#58 Quinton Jackson - Marvin Eastman' in the Round 1 base set, and SportsCardsPro carries a product page for the same card. Topps' first UFC-licensed release was Round 1 in 2009.
- 2008First certified autograph — eBay's catalogue carries a product entry for the card, and a PSA-graded copy is catalogued as '2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's Rampage Jackson Framed Mini Auto #AGA-RJ'. No published checklist for the 2008 Allen & Ginter autographs has been found, so the number rests on marketplace cataloguing.
- —Recognized rookie card — eBay's catalogue title prints '(RC)' next to #189, but Collectibles.com's page for the same card answers 'Rookie Card: No', and SportsCardsPro answers 'No' on both 2009 Topps UFC base cards. Nothing beyond marketplace cataloguing designates any Jackson card a rookie.
Key Jackson cards
12 cards chosen for significance, not completeness; autographs and numbered cards follow below.
Card history
Rampage's card run begins in Japan, two years before any American manufacturer printed him. The 2006 Pride FC issue — 142 base cards, and 583 counting the Base, Gold Foil Signature, Silver Foil Signature, Holographic and Promo variations — puts him at #93 on a card shared with Ikuhisa Minowa, catching him as a PRIDE middleweight grand prix name rather than a UFC one. Graded copies come out of Japanese sellers and slabs, and starting a complete Jackson run means going there first.
His first American card and his first certified autograph both come from a baseball product, because Topps did not hold the UFC licence in 2008: Allen & Ginter's, which has always carried outside-the-lines subjects, gave him base #189 and an on-card framed mini autograph, #AGA-RJ. That framed mini is the scarcer half of the pair in high grade, and #189 is where the rookie argument settles — eBay's catalogue prints '(RC)' beside it and PSA and SGC copies sell as his rookie. No database agrees, though: Collectibles.com's own page for the card answers 'Rookie Card: No', SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'No' on both 2009 Topps UFC base cards and carries no entry for the Allen & Ginter card at all, and another group of sellers treats the earlier 2006 Pride FC #93 as the rookie.
Topps took the UFC licence in 2009 and gave him the full treatment straight away. Round 1, a 102-card set built around fighters' UFC debuts, shows his UFC 67 knockout of Marvin Eastman on shared base #58, with Gold, Silver /288, Black /888 and a Red 1/1 behind it. The same product holds his first UFC-licensed signature at #A-QJ and the Victorious Debuts insert #VD8 with a Gold /88 and Red 1/1. The archive also carries an Autographed Ultimate Gear relic for him at #AUG-QJ, numbered to 25 — the card that stays out of most Rampage collections entirely — but Jeff Allender's Round 1 checklist gives his relic as fight mat #DM-JE and his signature as #A-QJ and has no AUG-QJ entry, so that one is unconfirmed until a copy surfaces.
Round 2 followed later the same year with his first solo UFC base card, #99, at the head of a ladder running Gold, Silver and Bronze up to a Ruby /8 and a Diamond 1/1 — though checklists disagree on what those middle tiers are called, some describing an Onyx or Silver numbered to 188 instead. Round 2 also carried the more attainable of his two 2009 signatures, Fighter Autographs #FA-QJ at roughly one in eight packs, plus Greats of the Game #GTG-6 with a Black /88 and Bloodlines #BL-9 with Black /88, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 tiers. Bloodlines is the deepest non-autograph chase with his name on it from the first Topps UFC era.
After that the run simply stops. 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #135 is the last licensed base card of him, printed while he was still headlining but a year from leaving the promotion. He signed with Bellator in June 2013 and fought there into 2015 without a single licensed card of him being documented from those years — the Bellator-branded Rampage cards in circulation are unlicensed customs and artist work, and the signed Moment of Truth copies were signed privately after issue rather than by Topps. His certified signatures are #A-QJ, #FA-QJ and the 2008 framed mini.
Autographs
4 certified autographs in the archive.
Card eras
The 2006 Pride FC issue — 142 base cards, 583 counting every variation — carries him at #93 alongside Ikuhisa Minowa, with Gold Foil Signature, Silver Foil Signature and Holographic versions behind it. It is the only pre-UFC cardboard of him that any index records.
Topps put him in Allen & Ginter at #189 — a baseball product, because Topps had no UFC licence yet — and signed him for the framed mini autograph subset. eBay's catalogue flags #189 (RC), and graded copies are sold as his rookie.
Round 1 #58 pairs him with Marvin Eastman from his UFC 67 debut and Round 2 #99 is his first solo UFC base card. He signed for both products, #A-QJ and #FA-QJ. An Autographed Ultimate Gear relic numbered to 25, #AUG-QJ, is recorded for him in the archive but does not appear in the published Round 1 checklist, so treat it as unconfirmed.
Round 1 gave him Victorious Debuts #VD8 (Gold /88, Red 1/1) and a fight-mat relic; Round 2 added Greats of the Game #GTG-6 and Bloodlines #BL-9, each with Black /88, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 tiers.
Moment of Truth #135 is the last Topps UFC base card of him documented anywhere. He left the UFC for Bellator in 2013, and no later Topps UFC set in this archive carries him.
He signed with Bellator in June 2013 and debuted at Bellator 108 in November, but no licensed Bellator trading card of him from 2013 to 2015 is documented — everything catalogued under that heading is an unlicensed custom or artist card.
Parallels of this card
Sets
Where Jackson's key cards come from.
- 20062006 PRIDE FC1 key card
- 20082008 Topps Allen & Ginter's1 key card
- 20082008 Topps Allen & Ginter's Framed Mini Autographs1 key card
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 11 key card
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 1 Autographs1 key card
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 1 Victorious Debuts1 key card
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 1 Autographed Ultimate Gear Relics1 key card
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 21 key card
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 2 Autographs1 key card
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 2 Greats of the Game1 key card
- 20092009 Topps UFC Round 2 Bloodlines1 key card
- 20112011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth1 key card
Buying & wanted
- 012006 Pride FC #93 in Gold Foil Signature — the Japanese card that predates every US issue
- 022008 Topps Allen & Ginter framed mini autograph #AGA-RJ, his first certified signature and on-card
- 032009 Topps UFC Round 1 Autographed Ultimate Gear #AUG-QJ, numbered to 25 — unconfirmed, and finding one would settle it
- 042009 Topps UFC Round 2 #99 in Diamond 1/1 or Ruby /8
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Quinton Jackson's earliest card: 2006 PRIDE FC #093 — Quinton Jackson / Ikuhisa Minowa.
No manufacturer, grader or published checklist designates any Quinton Jackson card a rookie, so the archive records his earliest card instead. That is 2006 PRIDE FC #093, the bout card he shares with Ikuhisa Minowa: two independently graded copies, a BGS 9.5 and a PSA 8, are catalogued at #93 in the set, and Cardbase's page for 2006 PRIDE FC confirms the release and its roughly 142-card base run. Nothing of him earlier than 2006 appears in Cardbase, Collectibles.com or SportsCardsPro. The card the hobby reaches for instead is 2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's #189 — his first US pack-issued card, titled '(RC)' in eBay's catalogue and slabbed and sold as his rookie — but Collectibles.com's own page for it answers 'Rookie Card: No', and SportsCardsPro answers 'No' on both 2009 Topps UFC base cards. Confidence is uncertain because everything that calls anything of his a rookie is a marketplace catalogue rather than an authority.
- 2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's, accessed September 22, 2026
- eBay2008 Topps Allen Ginter Quinton Rampage Jackson RC Rookie SGC 10 PFL PRIDE #189, accessed September 22, 2026
- eBayQuinton Rampage Jackson Ikuhisa Minowa 2006 Pride FC Foil Rookie Card 93 BGS 9.5, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsProMarvin Eastman, Quinton Jackson #58 — 2009 Topps UFC Round 1, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsProQuinton Jackson #99 — 2009 Topps UFC Round 2, accessed September 22, 2026
- eBay2008 Topps Allen & Ginter #189 Rampage Jackson, accessed September 22, 2026
- eBay2006 Pride FC Quinton Rampage Jackson Ikuhisa Minowa Foil Rookie PSA 8, accessed September 22, 2026
- Cardbase2006 Pride FC MMA Cards (lists #132 Dan Henderson and the variation counts), accessed September 22, 2026
Rampage's card run begins in Japan, two years before any American manufacturer printed him. The 2006 Pride FC issue — 142 base cards, and 583 counting the Base, Gold Foil Signature, Silver Foil Signature, Holographic and Promo variations — puts him at #93 on a card shared with Ikuhisa Minowa, catching him as a PRIDE middleweight grand prix name rather than a UFC one. Graded copies come out of Japanese sellers and slabs, and starting a complete Jackson run means going there first.
- eBayQuinton Rampage Jackson Ikuhisa Minowa 2006 Pride FC Foil Rookie Card 93 BGS 9.5, accessed September 22, 2026
- Cardbase2006 Pride FC MMA Cards (lists #132 Dan Henderson and the variation counts), accessed September 22, 2026
- eBay2006 Pride FC Quinton Rampage Jackson Ikuhisa Minowa Foil Rookie PSA 8, accessed September 22, 2026
His first American card and his first certified autograph both come from a baseball product, because Topps did not hold the UFC licence in 2008: Allen & Ginter's, which has always carried outside-the-lines subjects, gave him base #189 and an on-card framed mini autograph, #AGA-RJ. That framed mini is the scarcer half of the pair in high grade, and #189 is where the rookie argument settles — eBay's catalogue prints '(RC)' beside it and PSA and SGC copies sell as his rookie. No database agrees, though: Collectibles.com's own page for the card answers 'Rookie Card: No', SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'No' on both 2009 Topps UFC base cards and carries no entry for the Allen & Ginter card at all, and another group of sellers treats the earlier 2006 Pride FC #93 as the rookie.
Topps took the UFC licence in 2009 and gave him the full treatment straight away. Round 1, a 102-card set built around fighters' UFC debuts, shows his UFC 67 knockout of Marvin Eastman on shared base #58, with Gold, Silver /288, Black /888 and a Red 1/1 behind it. The same product holds his first UFC-licensed signature at #A-QJ and the Victorious Debuts insert #VD8 with a Gold /88 and Red 1/1. The archive also carries an Autographed Ultimate Gear relic for him at #AUG-QJ, numbered to 25 — the card that stays out of most Rampage collections entirely — but Jeff Allender's Round 1 checklist gives his relic as fight mat #DM-JE and his signature as #A-QJ and has no AUG-QJ entry, so that one is unconfirmed until a copy surfaces.
Round 2 followed later the same year with his first solo UFC base card, #99, at the head of a ladder running Gold, Silver and Bronze up to a Ruby /8 and a Diamond 1/1 — though checklists disagree on what those middle tiers are called, some describing an Onyx or Silver numbered to 188 instead. Round 2 also carried the more attainable of his two 2009 signatures, Fighter Autographs #FA-QJ at roughly one in eight packs, plus Greats of the Game #GTG-6 with a Black /88 and Bloodlines #BL-9 with Black /88, Ruby /8 and Diamond 1/1 tiers. Bloodlines is the deepest non-autograph chase with his name on it from the first Topps UFC era.
After that the run simply stops. 2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #135 is the last licensed base card of him, printed while he was still headlining but a year from leaving the promotion. He signed with Bellator in June 2013 and fought there into 2015 without a single licensed card of him being documented from those years — the Bellator-branded Rampage cards in circulation are unlicensed customs and artist work, and the signed Moment of Truth copies were signed privately after issue rather than by Topps. His certified signatures are #A-QJ, #FA-QJ and the 2008 framed mini.
2006 PRIDE FC #093 — Quinton Jackson / Ikuhisa Minowa.
- eBayQuinton Rampage Jackson Ikuhisa Minowa 2006 Pride FC Foil Rookie Card 93 BGS 9.5, accessed September 22, 2026
- eBay2006 Pride FC Quinton Rampage Jackson Ikuhisa Minowa Foil Rookie PSA 8, accessed September 22, 2026
- Cardbase2006 Pride FC MMA Cards (lists #132 Dan Henderson and the variation counts), accessed September 22, 2026
2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's #189 — Quinton Jackson.
2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's Framed Mini Autographs #AGA-RJ — Quinton Jackson.
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #58 — Quinton Jackson / Marvin Eastman.
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 Autographs #A-QJ — Quinton Jackson.
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 Victorious Debuts #VD8 — Quinton Jackson.
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 Autographed Ultimate Gear Relics #AUG-QJ — Quinton Jackson.
2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #99 — Quinton Jackson.
2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Autographs #FA-QJ — Quinton Jackson.
2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Greats of the Game #GTG-6 — Quinton Jackson.
2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Bloodlines #BL-9 — Quinton Jackson.
2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #135 — Quinton Jackson.