Ilia Topuria 2025 Topps Chrome Sapphire UFC #43: the base card and every parallel
Card #43 of 2025 Topps Chrome Sapphire UFC is Ilia Topuria's base card in the first UFC Sapphire, and here it is with its whole ladder: we have catalogued 7 versions of that number, from the unnumbered Sapphire to the Padparadscha 1/1. 7 have a photo of the actual copy.
2025 Topps Chrome Sapphire UFC #43: the Sapphire base card
The “Sapphire” edition in our list is the product's base set: the official Topps checklist opens with it as “Base Cards” and puts Ilia Topuria at #43 of 200, the same number as in 2025 Topps Chrome UFC. What changes is the crystalline blue finish and the colour ladder. The full set is on 2025 Topps Chrome Sapphire UFC.
Front: a horizontal card with a fight photo, Ilia Topuria squaring off with his opponent, on Sapphire's faceted blue background and with “Featherweight” next to his name, per the photo of our copy.
Back: the same text as the Chrome #43: the self-belief that drove his success in the UFC, a quote of his (“That belief creates realities”) and UFC 298, where he handed Alexander Volkanovski his first featherweight loss to take the belt, in his fourth straight fight with a bonus. Per the photographed back of our copy.
Which box the 2025 Sapphire #43 comes from
Sapphire is sold only on topps.com: 4 cards per pack, 8 packs and one autograph per box, 10 boxes per case, at $279.99 from July 25, 2025, per Checklist Insider, a secondary source.
The #43 ladder, from the Sapphire to the Padparadscha
Print runs from Checklist Insider, a secondary source, matching the numbering in our catalogue:
Sapphire, unnumbered: the product's base card (in our list, “Blue Refractor (Base)”).
Green /75 · Gold /50 · Orange /25.
Purple /10 · Red /5 · Padparadscha 1/1.
Checklist Insider calls them “Green Sapphire”, “Gold Sapphire” and so on; our list has them as Green Refractor, Gold Refractor and so on. They are the same cards.
2025 Sapphire, without official odds
Topps did not publish odds for 2025 Sapphire UFC: the 2025 Chrome UFC odds sheet has a column for “2025 Sapphire Hobby”, but leaves it empty on every line. So we give no odds for any colour and do not estimate them.
2026 does have a sheet, and the ladder changes: see Sapphire 2026 #1.
What gets mixed up
It is not the Chrome #43 in another colour: Sapphire is a different product with a different rainbow, and its parallels do not share print runs with Chrome's. The Chrome one is on 2025 Topps Chrome UFC #43.