Ilia Topuria 2025 Topps NOW UFC #18A: the /10, /5 and 1/1 autographs
Card #18A is Ilia Topuria's autographs from the UFC 317 Topps NOW: the photo of the KO of Charles Oliveira, signed and numbered. We have catalogued 3 versions, the /10, the /5 and the 1/1; 3 have a photo of a real copy.
The #18A cards are the signed cards of the UFC 317 Topps NOW: Topps announced them on the #18 page as “/10 Autograph Card”, “/5” and “/1”, which is why the product was titled “LOOK FOR AUTOS”, per its official page. There are 16 copies at most: ten, five and one.
They were not sold separately: they came inside #18 orders, in place of the base, during the same window, from 30 June to 3 July 2025 (archived copy of the page).
How hard one was to find: if the declared run of 7,131 includes the 16 autographs, one came in roughly every 446 cards ordered. This is our estimate: Topps does not break that figure down.
What the autograph shows and what the back says
Front: the same landscape photo as the #18 base, lightened in the centre, where the blue-ink signature crosses the image. It is printed with “Autograph Issue” and “Topps Certified”, and the serial number sits at the top left, under the Topps NOW logo, from the photos of our copies.
The background changes with the run: the /10 has a dark frame with a sheen, the /5 is red and the 1/1 has a gold geometric pattern.
Back: the base card's text, headed “UFC 317 // June 28”, with the number “18A” and one extra line: the signing of all Topps autograph cards is witnessed by Topps representatives to guarantee authenticity.
Topps publishes no Topps NOW odds: the #18 page only says the chance of a non-base card depends on the total ordered.
What gets confused with #18A
18A is not a colour of 18: it is a different card, signed and with its own number printed on the back. The base and its foil parallels are on 2025 Topps NOW #18.
The 2024 Topps NOW had no autograph: the special piece from UFC 308 was a relic with the event's mat, #27A.