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Working pick
2022 Panini Prizm UFC #134 Tom Aspinall — front
#134
Rookie card guide

Tom Aspinall
Rookie Card

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

  • Working pick2022 Panini Prizm UFC #134
  • SubjectTom Aspinall
  • Year2022
  • ManufacturerPanini
  • ConfidenceUncertain
  • Print runUnknown — not estimated
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Why this is the working pick

TCDB flags his 2022 cards RC: Panini Prizm #134 (25 March 2022), Donruss #216 Rated Rookie (6 May 2022), Select and Optic #120; Prizm #134 came first, and SportsCardsPro also labels it a rookie. His earliest card, 2021 Panini Instant #35 (4 September 2021 fight), prints Panini's RC logo, visible on the SportsCardsPro scan, but has no TCDB RC flag. FightCardboard's rule for Panini Instant cards: the working pick is the earliest TCDB-flagged RC in a regular release, and the Instant card is recorded as the other candidate.

His first RC in a mainstream Panini set. 2022 Prizm UFC was released March 25, 2022 (TCDB and Cardboard Connection). TCDB lists more than 20 Prizm parallels, from Red /299 down to Black 1/1.

The dispute

Sources disagree: Panini prints its RC logo on 2021 Panini Instant #35, his earliest card, but TCDB does not flag it RC and flags his 2022 cards instead, starting with Prizm #134.

Commonly misidentified

Instant #35's print run of 325 is an announced print run, not a serial number. TCDB lists the Donruss Holo Orange Laser #216 as an autograph, and it gets mistaken for an unsigned parallel.

Identifying it

  • Card #134 of 200 (vertical)
  • 'RC ROOKIE CARD' logo top left, 'TOM ASPINALL / HEAVYWEIGHT'
  • Base is non-Prizm. The Silver Prizm has a refractor sheen

Parallels

Base
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Unnumbered
Silver Prizm
—
High confidence
Red Prizm
/299
High confidence
Blue Prizm
/199
High confidence
Purple Prizm
/149
High confidence
Orange Prizm
/99
High confidence

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

Tom Aspinall's rookie card: 2022 Panini Prizm UFC #134 — Tom Aspinall.

TCDB flags his 2022 cards RC: Panini Prizm #134 (25 March 2022), Donruss #216 Rated Rookie (6 May 2022), Select and Optic #120; Prizm #134 came first, and SportsCardsPro also labels it a rookie. His earliest card, 2021 Panini Instant #35 (4 September 2021 fight), prints Panini's RC logo, visible on the SportsCardsPro scan, but has no TCDB RC flag. FightCardboard's rule for Panini Instant cards: the working pick is the earliest TCDB-flagged RC in a regular release, and the Instant card is recorded as the other candidate.

Verified

2022 Panini Prizm UFC #134 — Tom Aspinall.

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