I want to thank Raz for his very welcomed care package last
week that included a group of 2017 Ryan Bader cards that I did not have in my
collection. Like my other PCs my Bader collection is on hold for now and with
two Topps UFC releases this year I was falling behind on my collection.
The first two cards are from the 2017 Topps UFC Fire
release, which was only available online. The set was not very large; only 50
base cards, 39 autographs and 20 Fired Up inserts. Each base card had 3
parallels in addition to the base cards and the autographs had 2 parallels in
addition to the base auto.
The cards Raz sent are the base card and the Red-Hot Foil
parallel #/142
The next two cards are from the 2017 Topps UFC Knockout
release, which came out less than a month ago. Bader was removed from the
checklist to this set because he signed with Bellator MMA in March but because
most of the autographs are hard signed they had already been sent out and he signed and
returned them so Topps decided to include his autograph and relic cards after
all.
The first card is his Tier One autograph, these cards are
amazing and right now this is one of my favorite Bader autographs that is in my
collection. I just love the design of these cards and the parallels are even
cooler with the card being black and signed in either copper, silver or gold
ink.
The second card is his Knockout Autographs. Topps tends to
use the horizontal design with Knockout, which I like because it allows them to
use images that are extended like this overhead strike from Bader’s fight
against Rashad Evans. This is what his base card would have looked like if it
were included in the set minus the autograph.
Again, thank you so much Raz, I really appreciate you taking
the time to send me this package.
I'm glad you like them!
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