Every Ilia Topuria card starts with a photograph. We looked at every one in his collection, number by number, to find which photos repeat, the order they came out in and which ones appear on only one card.
A studio guard with bare fists on eight different cards: five from 2023 Goodwin Champions and three from Metal Universe, between January 2024 and February 2025. All Upper Deck.
In 2024 the UFC licence moved from Panini to Topps, and some photos moved with it: Topps printed again photos Panini had already put on its cards.
The scream on the 2022 Prizm comes back painted on 2023 Chronicles On The Horizon and, by then with Topps, on 2024 Chrome Let's Go, where it appears twice. The paint on On The Horizon keeps us from proving that one to the detail.
Select used it on the 2022 Concourse and Topps brought it back two years later on Chrome's Fired Up.
The large figure on the 2022 Chronicles Rookies returns a year and a half later, by then with Topps, on 2024 Chrome Brick by Brick.
A 2022 grimace in black shorts: it appeared in Chronicles, came back in 2023 Donruss and, once the UFC licence moved to Topps, in 2024 Chrome Youthquake. Two manufacturers, one photo.
The Instant photo of the submission of Bryce Mitchell, in December 2022, is the one on the 2024 Knockout base, with the same Modelo post behind him.
The 2023 Select Octagonside photo is the large figure on Gold Label Class 1, by then a Topps card, a year and a half later.
Each photo with its cards in the order they came out. The first one is its debut.
The side-on scream on 2022 Select Octagonside returns two months later on Debut Edition, Panini's European set.
The horizontal autograph from 2023 Goodwin and Metal Universe Z-Force carry the same photo, three and a half months apart. Both are Upper Deck.
The 2024 Chrome #77 is the photo on Finest's Chaos insert, eleven months later.
The large figure on Gold Label Class 3 returns in black and white eleven months later, on 2025 Finest Monochrome.
Topps NOW printed it the week of the fight, in June 2025, on the card and on its autograph, and Chrome used it again on 2026 All Action.
Sapphire is Chrome's premium edition and repeats its photos: the 2025 #43 comes out the same a month later.
The same belt-on-the-shoulder photo across three Topps products: it debuted on the 2025 Knockout relic, came back on Finest two weeks later and again on 2026 Final Face Off.
The 2025 Knockout base and Finest Fandomonium came out fourteen days apart with the same photo.
Another shot from the same champion session, free hand on the hip and elbow bent: Finest Uncommon and the Royalty base, three months apart.
The 2026 Chrome #1 returns in Sapphire four weeks later.
The Lineage autograph combines the black-and-white face and the body with the belt, and Sapphire repeats it as it is.
The guard on Chrome's Split Decision returns two weeks later on Midnight's Neon Apex.
The base and its autograph, the Chrome version, an insert that repeats the photo: the same photo on different numbers of one product.
On 2023 Goodwin Goudey Ilia Topuria wears a suit, and the autograph and the lenticular version carry the same photo.
2023 Goodwin uses the same photo on the three Splash of Color numbers and on the Birth Year Coinage.
2023 Metal Universe signs the same photo as its base #14.
The UFC 308 celebration appears the same on the Topps NOW card and on the one carrying a piece of the mat.
Gold Label's three Classes each carry a different large photo and the same small figure in guard.
2024 Finest uses the same photo on Rare #282 and on the Fight Glove die-cut.
2025 Stadium Club repeats the base #23 photo on its Chrome version, C-23.
The finishing blow on the downed opponent on base #6 is the photo on its #6-A autograph.
The insert and its signed version carry the same walkout photo.
2026 Stadium Club repeats the two-belt photo on base #6, its Chrome version and the autograph.
The insert's open arms are also the autograph's.
Chrome All Action and 2026 Knockout Artists are the same punch on Oliveira a fraction of a second apart: on one he hides his face behind the glove and on the other he lifts it. Here those are two different photos; «the same photo» means the same shot.
These photos are not repeated on any other Ilia Topuria card, for now: any new set can use them again.
Analysis of 14 October 2026 on the photos published on this site.