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Quinton Jackson

Rampage is one of the few fighters whose card run starts in Japan: the sprawling 2006 Pride FC set put him on cardboard while he was still a PRIDE middleweight-grand-prix name, two years before any American product did. His first US card and first certified autograph both come from 2008 Topps Allen & Ginter, a baseball product, because Topps did not hold the UFC licence until the following year. When that licence arrived in 2009 he got the full treatment across Round 1 and Round 2 — base, inserts, autographs and a /25 autographed gear relic — and then the Topps UFC run ended and his Bellator years produced nothing at all.

2008Rookie year
#189Rookie card
12Key cards
  • UFC debutFebruary 3, 2007 · UFC 67: All or Nothing
  • DivisionsLight Heavyweight · Heavyweight · Middleweight
  • FromMemphis, Tennessee
Rookie card#189
01

The rookie case

#189
Rookie card · working pick Rookie disputed

2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's #189

Topps put Rampage in a baseball product because in 2008 it had no UFC licence — Allen & Ginter has always carried outside-the-lines subjects, and he arrived in it as the reigning-then-recent UFC light heavyweight champion. That makes it a genuine oddity: the accepted rookie card of a UFC champion sits in a baseball set, a year ahead of the first Topps UFC release.

Where sources disagree

There is no consensus rookie card for Rampage. eBay's catalogue puts (RC) on the 2008 Allen & Ginter #189; SportsCardsPro explicitly says 'No' on both 2009 Topps UFC base cards and has no page at all for the Allen & Ginter card; and a separate group of sellers treats the 2006 Pride FC #93 as the rookie because it is earliest. TCDB, COMC and Beckett — the three sources that would normally settle this — were all unreachable on this research, so the pick rests on eBay catalogue data plus the ordinary hobby rule that the first mainstream pack-issued card wins.

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Rookie card case Card record
02

Key Jackson cards

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

2006 PRIDE FC #093
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #58
2009 Topps UFC Round 1 Victorious Debuts #VD8
2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #99
2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Greats of the Game #GTG-6
2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Bloodlines #BL-9
2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #135
03

Card history

Rampage's card run begins in Japan, two years before any American manufacturer printed him. The 2006 Pride FC issue — 427 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, though sources disagree: SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'No' on both 2009 Topps UFC base cards and carries no entry for the Allen & Ginter card at all, while 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, the Victorious Debuts insert #VD8 with a Gold /88 and Red 1/1, and the card that stays out of most Rampage collections entirely — the Autographed Ultimate Gear relic #AUG-QJ, numbered to 25.

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 coming out of it — 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 only certified signatures remain #A-QJ, #FA-QJ and the 2008 framed mini.

Sources for every paragraph

04

Autographs

4 certified autographs in the archive.

2008Topps Allen & Ginter's Framed Mini Autographs #AGA-RJ Auto
2009Topps UFC Round 1 Autographs #A-QJ Auto
2009Topps UFC Round 1 Autographed Ultimate Gear Relics #AUG-QJ AutoRelic/25
2009Topps UFC Round 2 Autographs #FA-QJ Auto
05

Card eras

2006
PRIDE in Japan

The 427-card 2006 Pride FC issue carries him at #93 alongside Ikuhisa Minowa, with Gold Foil Signature, Silver Foil Signature and Holographic variations. It is the only pre-UFC cardboard of him that reachable sources record.

2008
First US card, first autograph

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.

2009
Topps gets the UFC licence

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) plus the Autographed Ultimate Gear relic numbered to 25.

2009 · Round 2
Insert-set regular

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.

2011
The Topps run winds down

Moment of Truth #135 is the last Topps UFC base card of him that this research could confirm. He left the UFC for Bellator in 2013, and no later Topps UFC set in this archive carries him.

2013–2015
Bellator, and no cardboard

He signed with Bellator in June 2013 and debuted at Bellator 108 in November, but no licensed Bellator trading card of him surfaced in this research — everything found under that heading was an unlicensed custom or artist card.

06

Sets

Where Jackson's key cards come from.

07

Buying & wanted

Wanted by FightCardboard
  • 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
  • 042009 Topps UFC Round 2 #99 in Diamond 1/1 or Ruby /8

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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.

Probable

Quinton Jackson's rookie card: 2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's #189 — Quinton Jackson.

2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's #189 is the only Jackson card any reachable catalogue actually marks as a rookie: eBay's catalogue title for it reads '2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's - Quinton Jackson #189 (RC)', and PSA- and SGC-slabbed copies are listed and sold as his rookie. It is his first card in a mainstream US pack-issued product and the first card Topps made of him, a year before Topps held the UFC licence. It is the working pick, not a settled one — see the dispute.

High confidence

Rampage's card run begins in Japan, two years before any American manufacturer printed him. The 2006 Pride FC issue — 427 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.

High confidence

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, though sources disagree: SportsCardsPro's rookie field reads 'No' on both 2009 Topps UFC base cards and carries no entry for the Allen & Ginter card at all, while another group of sellers treats the earlier 2006 Pride FC #93 as the rookie.

High confidence

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, the Victorious Debuts insert #VD8 with a Gold /88 and Red 1/1, and the card that stays out of most Rampage collections entirely — the Autographed Ultimate Gear relic #AUG-QJ, numbered to 25.

High confidence

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.

High confidence

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 coming out of it — 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 only certified signatures remain #A-QJ, #FA-QJ and the 2008 framed mini.

Probable

2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's #189 — Quinton Jackson.

Probable

2006 PRIDE FC #093 — Quinton Jackson / Ikuhisa Minowa.

Probable

2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's Framed Mini Autographs #AGA-RJ — Quinton Jackson.

High confidence

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 #58 — Quinton Jackson / Marvin Eastman.

High confidence

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 Autographs #A-QJ — Quinton Jackson.

Probable

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 Victorious Debuts #VD8 — Quinton Jackson.

Probable

2009 Topps UFC Round 1 Autographed Ultimate Gear Relics #AUG-QJ — Quinton Jackson.

High confidence

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 #99 — Quinton Jackson.

High confidence

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Autographs #FA-QJ — Quinton Jackson.

High confidence

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Greats of the Game #GTG-6 — Quinton Jackson.

Probable

2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Bloodlines #BL-9 — Quinton Jackson.

Probable

2011 Topps UFC Moment of Truth #135 — Quinton Jackson.