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2006 PRIDE FC #010 Wanderlei Silva — front
#010
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Wanderlei Silva
Rookie Card

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

  • The answer2006 PRIDE FC #010
  • SubjectWanderlei Silva
  • Year2006
  • ManufacturerDSE (Dream Stage Entertainment)
  • ConfidenceHigh confidence
  • Print runUnknown — not estimated
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Why this is the rookie

2006 PRIDE FC #010 holds. Collectibles.com lists it as '#010 RC' and dates his rookie year to 2006, Cardbase confirms the card at #10 within the set, and Sports Card Investor's index shows nothing older. The negative check holds too: he is absent from the entire 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 checklist, so nothing American precedes his PRIDE cardboard. It stops short of verified because no Silva card carries a printed rookie logo — the UFC licence did not exist until 2009, a decade after his PRIDE debut — so 'rookie' here is a convention the databases apply rather than a designation a manufacturer made.

The Wanderlei rookie, and one of the few solo cards of him made while he was PRIDE middleweight champion. It came out of a Japanese-market box product that was never distributed at retail in the West, which is why clean copies are scarce outside Japan despite the set itself not being especially short-printed.

Identifying it

  • Card number printed as three digits, 010; price guides and graders shorten it to #10
  • Part of the 142-card base run of the 2006 Pride FC set — 583 cards across the whole product per Cardbase, counting every variation
  • Solo portrait card — do not confuse with the Best Bouts head-to-head cards in the same numbering run
  • Parallel versions carry a 'g' (Gold Foil Signature) or 's' (Silver Foil Signature) suffix in dealer listings; a Holographic version also exists
  • Dealer product wording: '2006 DSE Pride Fighting Championships Trading Card - #010 Wanderlei Silva'

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 — Cardbase's page for the set names '#10 Wanderlei Silva'; Collectibles.com lists '2006 Pride FC #010 RC'; Sports Card Investor's index shows the 2006 Pride FC base card as the earliest Silva card it tracks. No card from 1999-2005 surfaced in any source, despite his PRIDE title reign beginning in 2001.
  • 2006First MMA card — Same card; the 2006 DSE PRIDE release is both his first licensed card and his first MMA card.
  • 2009First UFC card — SportsCardsPro and Cardboard Connection both carry him at #21 in Round 2, released 30 September 2009. Jeff Allender's checklist for the earlier 2009 Topps UFC Round 1 does not list him anywhere, so Round 2 is his first UFC-licensed card.
  • 2009First certified autograph — SportsCardsPro's product page gives the card as '2009 Topps UFC Round 2 Autographs #FA-WS', year 2009, and Collectibles.com places it in the same product. He is not in the 2009 Round 1 checklist at all, so nothing UFC-licensed precedes it, and the 2006 PRIDE release contained no certified autographs.
  • 2006Recognized rookie card — Collectibles.com lists '2006 Pride FC #010 RC' and dates his rookie year to 2006; Combat Kingdom's dealer listing for the same card describes it as his MMA rookie card; Sports Card Investor indexes the same card as the earliest it tracks. No printed RC logo exists — the designation is database and market convention.

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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High confidence

Wanderlei Silva's rookie card: 2006 PRIDE FC #010 — Wanderlei Silva.

His first licensed card of any kind is in the 2006 Pride FC set (DSE, Japan), issued while he held the PRIDE middleweight title. Within that set, base #010 is the card the market treats as the rookie: Collectibles.com lists '2006 Pride FC #010 RC' as his rookie and his most valuable card and states he 'debuted as a Rookie in 2006'; Combat Kingdom's dealer listing for the same card describes it as 'representing his MMA Rookie Card'; and Sports Card Investor's Wanderlei Silva index shows 2006 Pride FC #10 Base as the earliest card it tracks for him. No Topps or Panini card of Silva carries a manufacturer RC logo — the UFC licence did not exist until 2009, eleven years after his UFC debut and ten after his PRIDE debut — so 'rookie' here is database and market convention rather than a printed designation.

Verified

2006 PRIDE FC #010 — Wanderlei Silva.

Uncertain

Set naming varies by source: 'Pride FC' (Cardbase, Sports Card Investor, Collectibles.com), '2006 DSE Pride Fighting Championships' (Combat Kingdom), '2006 DSE Pride FC Card Collection' (eBay/COMC), and PSA slabs it as 'Pride Card Collection Grand Prix'. Number printed 010 vs quoted #10. The Gold Foil Signature, Silver Foil Signature and Holographic parallels are documented at set level by Cardbase (141/141/140 cards each) but no reachable source confirms the #010 parallels individually.

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