Some "Natural" Pickups

I have a Randy Couture mini-PC, he was one of the first MMA fighters that I followed and even though he hasn’t fought since 2011, he knowns when to retire unlike Ken Shamrock but that is a different story, I still am a fan so today will be a post of recent Couture pickups.

 

2006 Topps Allen & Ginter’s

 

2010 Leaf MMA

 

 

2011 Topps Moment of Truth Onyx base card

 

2011 Topps Moment of Truth mat relic

 

2011 Topps Title Shot shirt relic

2012 Finest shirt relic

2013 Knockout shirt relic

A Couture COMC Pick Up

On Black Friday COMC had free shipping as long as you had 20 or more cards on the order so I went on a bit of a spree of sub-$2 cards and ended up hitting 24 cards, enough for free shipping. I requested my cardboard treasure trove and recently got them. Most of my cards were Griffey with a small collection for my Ryan Bader pc but there were two Randy Couture cards that have been on my Grey Whale checklist that I can finally mark of.

First up is 2010 Upper Deck World Of Sports Clear Competitors #/550

The set was a multi-sport set using the licenses that Upper Deck had at the time and the set was kind of all over the board but that was the intent with a set named World of Sports. Plenty of autographs and some cool inserts, which is where this Couture Clear Competitors was included. I love a cool acetate card and this one is pretty well designed.

The second card also comes from Upper Deck but this time is the 2012 SP Authentic Golf release, this specific card coming from the Parade of Stars insert which shows various athletes playing golf. There are three versions, the base is green with the gold, blue and red being more rare. Some also have an autographed version.

 

A Randy Couture TTM Success

Earlier this year I sent a TTM request to Macklemore for my nephew and was happy to get it back in just over a month. I first started sending TTM requests in the 1990s when I got back in to collecting and after getting no responses I gave up due to frustration but after my luck earlier this year I decided to give it another try, this time I sent a request to Randy Couture. I sent the request on August 8^th and got it back on August 17^th, a nine-day turn around.

Couture is one of my favorite MMA fighters so I selected a card that I really liked, the 2011 Topps UFC Title Shot Legacy card.

 

Because I also like Couture’s character Toll Road in the Expendables movies, my favorite recent action film series, I wanted to get an Expendables autograph but there are no cards for the movie series so I made my own. I used a great clear image from Expendables 2 and I tweaked the autograph design from my Mel Brooks series. I kept the card simple, his image along with the Expendables logo and along the bottom I added a mist similar to what Topps uses for autographs but I think I will remove the mist for future cards because I like the bold signature across the front. I may only use the mist if I have a dark image where the autograph my get lost otherwise.

I even made a back with his bio. I plan on using the same design for other actors/athletes so I can easily change the bio. I created the box for the bio using a grunge style but now I realize that the bottom of the box looks like my printer was running out of ink so I plan on cleaning that up for future cards.

The scan looks washed out, the card does not look like this in hand. I have included the digital file to show the true solid black coloring. As you can see in the card I did not include a border, those lines in the digital file are the cutline.