Ilia Topuria 2025 Topps Royalty UFC #97: the base card and every parallel
Card #97 is Ilia Topuria's base card in 2025 Topps Royalty UFC, a base that is numbered /99 from the start, and here it is with its whole ladder: we have catalogued 7 versions of that number, from the /99 to the Platinum 1/1. 6 have a photo of the actual copy.
Ilia Topuria is #97 of the 100 cards in the base set of 2025 Topps Royalty UFC, per the official Topps checklist. This page gathers the base and its colours; the product's autographs and relics are on the set page.
Front: Ilia Topuria with the championship belt inside a shield-shaped frame, surrounded by lions and filigree on a marble background; the serial number sits bottom right (“01/99” on our copy), per its photo.
Back: no biography; just the number 97, the Royalty crown emblem, his name and the “Lightweight” class, per the photographed back of our copy.
No version is common: even the base is numbered.
Which box the 2025 Royalty #97 comes from
Royalty is high-end: a box is a single 10-card pack with 5 autographs and 3 relics, 4 boxes per case, released on February 6, 2026 at $499.99 ($479.99 in the presale), per Checklist Insider, a secondary source. The same guide says every box has one /99 base card and one base parallel numbered /35 or lower.
Topps has not published an odds sheet for 2025 Royalty UFC; only the one for the 2024 edition. So we give no odds for each colour of #97 and do not estimate how often Ilia Topuria's falls.
The 2024 sheet is a pointer, not a 2025 figure: there, with the same ladder, the Platinum fell 1:80 boxes for any fighter. Until Topps publishes the 2025 sheet, that number cannot be carried over.
What gets mixed up
The base is a /99: there is no common card in Royalty, and every box has one.
The two Royalty editions share a ladder, from Purple /35 to Platinum 1/1 on top of a /99 base, but not the number or the photo: the 2024 one is Royalty 2024 #50.