The rookie case
2015 Topps UFC Knockout #88
Her first card of any kind, from a product released April 22, 2015 — four months after she lost the inaugural strawweight title fight to Carla Esparza at the TUF 20 Finale. It is a base card in a 100-card set, and the paralleled versions (Gold /99, Red /8, Mat 1/1) are the only serial-numbered versions of her rookie that exist.
There is no printed RC logo in play here — Topps UFC products of this period were not verified this research to carry one — so 'rookie card' for Namajunas is a first-appearance judgement rather than a manufacturer designation. SportsCardsPro's card pages for #88, #113 and #259 all say 'Is Rookie Card: No', which conflicts with MMA Rookies' RC designations; that field looks like a default on their UFC pages rather than a considered call, but it is a live disagreement between two sources.
Key Namajunas cards
9 cards chosen for significance, not completeness; autographs and numbered cards follow below.
Card history
Namajunas's card history starts with the women's strawweight division itself. She turned pro at Invicta FC 4 in January 2013 and fought to the TUF 20 final against Carla Esparza in December 2014 without a card existing: Invicta produced none, and the 2014 Topps UFC Knockout checklist released that May has no Namajunas entry in its base, insert, autograph or relic sections. Nothing from the Invicta years, and no non-MMA or international issue, comes before what follows.
Then three base cards arrived inside a single 2015 calendar year. 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #88, out April 22, 2015, is the first licensed card of any kind — a base card from a 100-card set with Silver /199, Gold /99, Red /8 and Mat 1/1, and MMA Rookies calls it her True Rookie Card. 2015 Topps UFC Champions #113 followed on October 28 with a deeper ladder (Black /188, Blue /88, Gold /25, Red /8, Platinum 1/1), and 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #259 carries the 2015 label but did not ship until February 3, 2016, which makes the last of her three 'rookie year' cards a 2016 card in hand. No printed RC logo was confirmed on any of them, and sources disagree: MMA Rookies flags all three as rookies while SportsCardsPro's pages for the same cards say they are not.
2015 Topps UFC Champions is the product that did the work for her. Besides base #113 it carries Fighter Autographs FA-RN, her first certified signature, from the 73-card signature checklist that runs four per hobby box; Fighting's Future FF-RN, whose autographed version is numbered to 25 and remains the scarcest early Namajunas card outside the 1/1s; and Championship Clashes CC-7, which pairs her with Esparza and is the first card of the fight that created the division. Chronicles, by contrast, gave her nothing but the base card and its parallels — no autograph, no insert anywhere in the 300-card set.
Knocking out Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 217 on November 4, 2017 produced a Topps Now print-on-demand card with a print run of 57 copies, by a wide margin the scarcest mainstream card of her career; no checklist reached gives it a card number. 2018 Topps UFC Chrome, September 19, 2018, is her first Chrome base card at #28, made while she was the reigning champion, and it stacks inserts on top: Notable Knockouts NK-RN for the Jedrzejczyk finish, plus 1983 UFC83-RN, Museum Collection UFCM-RN, Tier 1 UFCT-RN and Knockout UFCK-RN, several with autographed versions numbered to 5.
Her Panini era is short. 2021 Panini Prizm UFC shipped April 28, 2021, four days after she knocked out Zhang Weili at UFC 261 to regain the belt — about as well-timed as a licensed release gets — and she is base #31 in the vertical half with a Fearless insert at #16, under the full Prizm colour ladder down to Black 1/1. When the licence went back to Topps she had moved up to flyweight, and 2024 Topps Finest UFC #108, in the checklist's Uncommon tier with an X-Fractor confirmed by completed sales, is her first card of the new Topps run.
Autographs
2 certified autographs in the archive.
Card eras
She turned pro at Invicta FC 4 in January 2013 and reached the TUF 20 final in December 2014, but neither Invicta nor the 2014 Topps UFC products produced a card of her. 2014 Topps UFC Knockout, released May 16, 2014, has no Namajunas entry anywhere in its base, insert, autograph or relic checklists.
2015 Topps UFC Knockout arrived April 22, 2015, four months after the TUF 20 Finale, and #88 is her first licensed card of any kind. It is a base card out of a 100-card set with Silver /199, Gold /99, Red /8 and Mat 1/1 parallels.
2015 Topps UFC Champions (October 28, 2015) carries base #113, Fighter Autographs FA-RN — her first certified signature — plus Fighting's Future FF-RN with an autographed version numbered to 25, and Championship Clashes CC-7 pairing her with Carla Esparza.
2015 Topps UFC Chronicles actually shipped February 3, 2016. #259 sits in a 300-card retrospective base set with Green /288, Black and White /188, Gold /88, Red /8 and Sepia 1/1 parallels, and she has no autograph or insert in the product.
Knocking out Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 217 on November 4, 2017 produced a Topps Now print-on-demand card with a confirmed print run of 57 copies — by a wide margin the scarcest mainstream card of her career.
2018 Topps UFC Chrome (September 19, 2018) is her first Chrome base card at #28, and the product stacks inserts on top of it: Notable Knockouts NK-RN for the Jedrzejczyk finish, plus 1983 UFC83-RN, Museum Collection UFCM-RN, Tier 1 UFCT-RN and Knockout UFCK-RN.
2021 Panini Prizm UFC landed April 28, 2021, four days after she knocked out Zhang Weili to regain the belt; she is base #31 in the vertical half plus Fearless #16. After the license moved back, 2024 Topps Finest UFC #108 is her first card of the Topps return.
Rookie parallels
Sets
Where Namajunas's key cards come from.
- 20152015 Topps UFC Knockout1 key card
- 20152015 Topps UFC Champions1 key card
- 20152015 Topps UFC Champions Fighter Autographs1 key card
- 20152015 Topps UFC Champions Fighting's Future Autographs1 key card
- 20152015 Topps UFC Champions Championship Clashes1 key card
- 20152015 Topps UFC Chronicles1 key card
- 20182018 Topps Chrome UFC1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Prizm UFC1 key card
- 20242024 Topps Finest UFC1 key card
Buying & wanted
- 012015 Topps UFC Champions Fighter Autographs #FA-RN — her first certified autograph, from the October 2015 release
- 022015 Topps UFC Champions Fighting's Future Autographs #FF-RN, numbered to 25 — the scarcest of her early signed cards
- 032017 Topps Now UFC 217 card commemorating the Jedrzejczyk knockout, print run 57
- 042015 Topps UFC Knockout #88 in a high grade, plus its Gold /99 and Red /8 parallels
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Rose Namajunas's rookie card: 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #88 — Rose Namajunas.
MMA Rookies names 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #88 her True Rookie Card and lists 2015 Topps UFC Champions #113 and 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #259 as her other rookie cards. Release dates back that order up: Cardboard Connection dates Topps UFC Knockout to April 22, 2015, Topps UFC Champions to October 28, 2015, and Topps UFC Chronicles to February 3, 2016 despite the 2015 label. Nothing earlier exists — the 2014 Topps UFC Knockout checklist (May 16, 2014) has no Namajunas entry, and she has no Invicta-era or non-MMA card that this research could find.
- MMA RookiesNamajunas, Rose — True Rookie Card: 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #88, accessed September 22, 2026
- Cardboard Connection2015 Topps UFC Knockout — checklist, release date, parallels, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsProRose Namajunas #88 — 2015 Topps UFC Knockout, accessed September 22, 2026
Namajunas's card history starts with the women's strawweight division itself. She turned pro at Invicta FC 4 in January 2013 and fought to the TUF 20 final against Carla Esparza in December 2014 without a card existing: Invicta produced none, and the 2014 Topps UFC Knockout checklist released that May has no Namajunas entry in its base, insert, autograph or relic sections. Nothing from the Invicta years, and no non-MMA or international issue, comes before what follows.
Then three base cards arrived inside a single 2015 calendar year. 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #88, out April 22, 2015, is the first licensed card of any kind — a base card from a 100-card set with Silver /199, Gold /99, Red /8 and Mat 1/1, and MMA Rookies calls it her True Rookie Card. 2015 Topps UFC Champions #113 followed on October 28 with a deeper ladder (Black /188, Blue /88, Gold /25, Red /8, Platinum 1/1), and 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #259 carries the 2015 label but did not ship until February 3, 2016, which makes the last of her three 'rookie year' cards a 2016 card in hand. No printed RC logo was confirmed on any of them, and sources disagree: MMA Rookies flags all three as rookies while SportsCardsPro's pages for the same cards say they are not.
- Cardboard Connection2015 Topps UFC Knockout — checklist, release date, parallels, accessed September 22, 2026
- Cardboard Connection2015 Topps UFC Champions — set info and checklist, accessed September 22, 2026
- Cardboard Connection2015 Topps UFC Chronicles — checklist ('259 Rose Namajunas'), release date February 3, 2016, parallels, accessed September 22, 2026
2015 Topps UFC Champions is the product that did the work for her. Besides base #113 it carries Fighter Autographs FA-RN, her first certified signature, from the 73-card signature checklist that runs four per hobby box; Fighting's Future FF-RN, whose autographed version is numbered to 25 and remains the scarcest early Namajunas card outside the 1/1s; and Championship Clashes CC-7, which pairs her with Esparza and is the first card of the fight that created the division. Chronicles, by contrast, gave her nothing but the base card and its parallels — no autograph, no insert anywhere in the 300-card set.
Knocking out Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 217 on November 4, 2017 produced a Topps Now print-on-demand card with a print run of 57 copies, by a wide margin the scarcest mainstream card of her career; no checklist reached gives it a card number. 2018 Topps UFC Chrome, September 19, 2018, is her first Chrome base card at #28, made while she was the reigning champion, and it stacks inserts on top: Notable Knockouts NK-RN for the Jedrzejczyk finish, plus 1983 UFC83-RN, Museum Collection UFCM-RN, Tier 1 UFCT-RN and Knockout UFCK-RN, several with autographed versions numbered to 5.
Her Panini era is short. 2021 Panini Prizm UFC shipped April 28, 2021, four days after she knocked out Zhang Weili at UFC 261 to regain the belt — about as well-timed as a licensed release gets — and she is base #31 in the vertical half with a Fearless insert at #16, under the full Prizm colour ladder down to Black 1/1. When the licence went back to Topps she had moved up to flyweight, and 2024 Topps Finest UFC #108, in the checklist's Uncommon tier with an X-Fractor confirmed by completed sales, is her first card of the new Topps run.
2015 Topps UFC Knockout #88 — Rose Namajunas.
- MMA RookiesNamajunas, Rose — True Rookie Card: 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #88, accessed September 22, 2026
- Cardboard Connection2015 Topps UFC Knockout — checklist, release date, parallels, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsProRose Namajunas #88 — 2015 Topps UFC Knockout, accessed September 22, 2026
2015 Topps UFC Champions #113 — Rose Namajunas.
2015 Topps UFC Champions Fighter Autographs #FA-RN — Rose Namajunas.
- Cardboard Connection2015 Topps UFC Champions — set info and checklist, accessed September 22, 2026
2015 Topps UFC Champions Fighting's Future Autographs #FF-RN — Rose Namajunas.
- Cardboard Connection2015 Topps UFC Champions — set info and checklist, accessed September 22, 2026
2015 Topps UFC Champions Championship Clashes #CC-7 — Rose Namajunas / Carla Esparza.
- Cardboard Connection2015 Topps UFC Champions — set info and checklist, accessed September 22, 2026
2015 Topps UFC Chronicles #259 — Rose Namajunas.
- Cardboard Connection2015 Topps UFC Chronicles — checklist ('259 Rose Namajunas'), release date February 3, 2016, parallels, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsProRose Namajunas #259 — 2015 Topps UFC Chronicles, accessed September 22, 2026
- MMA RookiesNamajunas, Rose — True Rookie Card: 2015 Topps UFC Knockout #88, accessed September 22, 2026
2018 Topps Chrome UFC #28 — Rose Namajunas.
2021 Panini Prizm UFC #31 — Rose Namajunas.
2024 Topps Finest UFC #108 — Rose Namajunas.