Ilia Topuria 2026 Topps Chrome Sapphire UFC #1: the base card and every parallel
Card #1 of 2026 Topps Chrome Sapphire UFC is Ilia Topuria's, the card that opens the Sapphire base set, and here it is with its whole rainbow: we have catalogued 8 versions of that number, from the unnumbered Sapphire to the Padparadscha 1/1, with the official odds of every colour. 6 have a photo of the actual copy.
Front: a horizontal card with Ilia Topuria arms spread against the Octagon fence and “Lightweight” under his name, the 2026 Chrome base design, per the photos of our copies.
Back: it introduces him as a two-division champion and recounts the first-round knockout of Charles Oliveira at UFC 317, at 2:27, with 21 of 29 significant strikes (72%), and his perfect 9-0 record, per the photographed back of our copy.
Which box the 2026 Sapphire #1 comes from
The second UFC Sapphire came out on June 5, 2026 at $249.99 a box (the 2025 one cost $279.99), with 4 cards per pack, 8 packs and one autograph per box, per Checklist Insider, a secondary source.
The #1 ladder: odds and print runs, colour by colour
Black /10: 1:41. Red /5: 1:81. Padparadscha 1/1: 1:405.
The ladder changes from 2025: Yellow /75 and Black /10 where there were Green /75 and Purple /10. The 2025 one is on Sapphire 2025 #43.
What our list still has to review
The #1 Yellow /75 sits in our list under the “Infinite” edition, although its photo shows this base design and /75 numbering. It is on this page by its number, #1; Ilia Topuria's Infinite is #IN-3, among his case hits.
Our list also has a Green Sapphire /99 and a Purple Sapphire /10 of #1 that neither the official sheet nor Checklist Insider lists, and for which we have no photo or sales. Treat them with caution until a copy turns up. The Black /10, which the sheet does list, is not yet in our list.
How scarce the #1 is, in numbers
Any fighter's Padparadscha 1/1 falls once every 405 packs, about 51 boxes of 8 packs. With 200 cards in the base set, Ilia Topuria's in particular falls once every 81,000 packs, about 10,125 boxes: our estimate, assuming an even spread across the 200.
Odds and print runs add up: print run times odds lands between 405 and 450 across the whole ladder (75 × 6, 50 × 9, 25 × 17, 10 × 41, 5 × 81, 1 × 405). On the same proportion, the unnumbered Sapphire, at 3 per pack, would come to about 1,200 copies per fighter; that is our estimate.