Ilia Topuria Instant Arrival: 2026 Topps Knockout UFC
We have catalogued 8 versions of Ilia Topuria's Instant Arrival #IA-9, the 2026 Topps Knockout UFC insert about fighters who made an impact as soon as they arrived. 6 have a photo of the actual copy.
Instant Arrival is a 20-card insert in 2026 Topps Knockout UFC about fighters who made their mark as soon as they reached a division or the UFC: Mauricio Santos, Michael Morales, Alex Pereira, Diego Lopes, Joshua Van and Jean Silva, among others. Ilia Topuria is #IA-9, per the official Topps checklist.
What IA-9 recalls
Front: a portrait of Ilia Topuria inside a red octagon, wreathed in smoke, with three printed details: “Round 2”, “3/19/2022” and “TKO”. Below, his name and “Lightweight”.
Back: it says Ilia Topuria was an instant success as a lightweight and that he beat Jai Herbert by second-round KO at UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs Aspinall, earning a Performance of the Night bonus. The front prints “TKO” and the back “KO”; we leave it as Topps printed it. We read it on the photos of our copy.
In other words, the “arrival” this card tells is not his UFC debut but his arrival at lightweight, the division whose title he later won.
Base, unnumbered · Lime Green /99 · Blue /50 · Red /25.
Black /10 · Gold /8 · Emerald /5 · Platinum 1/1.
It is the short ladder shared by the 2026 Knockout inserts: the product's base card also has Bronze /299, Gold /199, Teal /149, Holo Silver /125, Orange /88, Black & White /15 and Holo Gold /8, which do not exist here.
Odds: Topps has not published them
Topps published the official 2026 Knockout UFC checklist, but we have not found its odds sheet, and Cardsmiths (a secondary source) also says pack odds have not been published. Without odds we give no estimate of how many packs this card takes.
Configuration: 8 cards per pack, 4 packs per Hobby box and 8 boxes per case, per Checklist Insider (secondary source). It came out on 26 June 2026 per the same source; UFC.com announced the sale from 24 to 26 June.
Worth knowing
It is the only one of his six 2026 Knockout insert cards with a date and a result on the front. Final Face Off tells another fight, but on the back.