Ilia Topuria 2025 Topps NOW UFC #18: the base card and every parallel
Card #18 of 2025 Topps NOW UFC is the card Topps printed after Ilia Topuria knocked out Charles Oliveira at UFC 317, shown here in every colour: we have catalogued 7 versions of that number, from the open-edition base to the FoilFractor 1/1, plus the two-belts image variation. 7 have a photo of a real copy.
Card #18 is the print-to-order card Topps made after the lightweight title: Ilia Topuria took it from Charles Oliveira on 28 June 2025 with a first-round KO at 2:27, per the official UFC 317 page. This page gathers the colours of that number; the whole night, with inserts from other sets, is on UFC 317 cards.
Front: a landscape card; Ilia Topuria throws a punch at Charles Oliveira, who covers his face with his gloves, with the date “6.28.25”, the event's “317” and the caption “Earns UFC Lightweight title via thunderous KO”, from the photo of our copy.
Back: headed “UFC 317 // June 28”, with the number 18. It says a right hook was all he needed to become the 10th two-weight champion in UFC history and that his Octagon streak moved to 9-0, from the photographed back.
The image variation changes the photo: a portrait card, Ilia Topuria hugging both belts with a red rose in his hand. Its back prints “18SSP”.
When #18 was sold and at what price
Topps sold it only on topps.com, printed on demand, from 30 June to 3 July 2025, with the sale clock closing at 21:00 GMT, according to the data on its official page (archived copy). One card cost $11.99; a lot of 5, $49.99; 10, $89.99; and 20, $169.99.
The #18 print run: 7,131
Topps writes a print run (PR) of 7,131 in the product title, the same figure shown in its UFC Topps NOW archive. None of the seventeen earlier 2025 UFC Topps NOW cards got that far: the highest was Hasbulla Magomedov's #4 at 5,508, and Merab Dvalishvili's #17 stopped at 969, per the May and July 2025 copies of that archive on the Internet Archive.
The #18 ladder: parallels and print runs
Since 2025, parallels replace the base card in the order: a buyer of one card could receive another version instead, per the official page. Topps publishes no odds; it only says the chance depends on the total number of cards ordered.
Base, unnumbered: the open edition.
Gold Foil /50, Orange Foil /25 and Black Foil /10.
Red Foil /5 and FoilFractor 1/1.
Image variation (Two Belts), super short print: Topps does not publish how many exist.
The five foils add up to 91 copies. If the 7,131 includes those 91, a card ordered at random was a numbered parallel roughly once every 78: this is our estimate, because Topps does not say whether its figure counts the cards that replace the base.
What gets confused with #18
The UFC 317 poster is not #18: it was randomly inserted into the same run, but its back prints “317SP” and a five-fight main card. It is not in this list; it is on UFC 317 cards.
The autographs carry their own number, 18A, with the same photo, and have their own page: 2025 Topps NOW #18A.
“Black” means something different each year: in 2025 Black Foil is the /10 parallel; on the 2024 #27, “Black (Base)” is the unnumbered base, and back then parallels were added to the order instead of replacing the base.
How to read this list
In the list: 1 at 1/1 and 0 without a photo of a real copy. Confirmed sales we have recorded for the number: 160.