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Quinton Jackson
Earliest Card

What exists, what does not, and which card the archive treats as the earliest.

  • Earliest card2006 PRIDE FC #093
  • SubjectQuinton Jackson / Ikuhisa Minowa
  • Year2006
  • ManufacturerPride FC
  • ConfidenceUncertain
  • Print runUnknown — not estimated
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Why this is the earliest card

Jackson's earliest card 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 that number, and Cardbase's page for the set confirms the release and its roughly 142-card base run. Nothing of him earlier than 2006 appears in Cardbase, Collectibles.com or SportsCardsPro. Sellers instead list 2008 Topps Allen & Ginter's #189 as his rookie — it is the first card an American manufacturer made of him, it is the one graded and sold as his rookie, and eBay's catalogue prints '(RC)' beside it — but the designation has no authority behind it: Collectibles.com, which catalogues the same card, answers 'Rookie Card: No' on its own page for it, and no grader, price guide or published checklist calls any Jackson card a rookie. That is why the archive leads with the earliest card and files the confidence as uncertain.

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.

Identifying it

  • Card #93; two subjects on the card, Jackson with Ikuhisa Minowa
  • The base run is 142 cards, so #93 sits well inside it rather than in a short insert; the 583-card figure quoted for the product counts every variation, not base cards
  • Foil copies circulate as Gold Foil Signature and Silver Foil Signature variations; listings often say only 'Foil', so check which one you are buying

What gets mistaken for it

What you'll readWhat's true
The 2006 Pride FC card is Rampage's official rookie card.It is his earliest card, but the 'Rookie' label on these listings is seller-entered. No catalogue designates it RC, and the hobby's RC flag for Jackson sits on the 2008 Topps Allen & Ginter #189.

Parallels

Base
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Unnumbered
Gold Foil Signature
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Probable
Silver Foil Signature
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Probable
Holographic
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Probable

Card milestones

Five separate questions, kept separate. How these are defined.

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.

Grading & population

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

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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.

Uncertain

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.

Probable

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

Uncertain

The number and subjects come from two graded eBay listings (one BGS, one PSA) that agree on #93; no published checklist confirms it. The set's producer is also unconfirmed — Cardbase and SportsCardInvestor both describe the set without naming a manufacturer, so 'Pride FC' here is the set name, not a verified maker. Sports Card Investor's price guide for the set tracks only twelve fighters and does not include Jackson at all.

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