We have catalogued 4 versions of Ilia Topuria's Chrome Veteran Autographs Variation #CVA-ITO, his only signature in 2025 Topps Chrome Sapphire UFC. Still without a photo of the front: 4.
Chrome Veteran Autographs Variation Sapphire is a list of 20 signatures in 2025 Topps Chrome Sapphire UFC with three-letter codes. Ilia Topuria is #CVA-ITO, per the official Topps checklist, alongside Alex Pereira, Alexander Volkanovski, Charles Oliveira, Islam Makhachev, Khamzat Chimaev, Max Holloway, Sean O'Malley and Valentina Shevchenko.
It stands apart from the 42 Chrome Veteran Autographs of the same product, where Ilia Topuria is absent: the official checklist lists them separately, and Checklist Insider (secondary source) says the Variation adds 20 exclusive names.
It is not an insert with its own concept but a variation of the generic veteran signature set. No source explains what changes on the card compared with the regular Veteran.
Front: we have no photo of the front, so we do not describe the design.
Back: laid out horizontally, with the code CVA-ITO and the line “An authentic Chrome Veteran Signature Card from 2025 Topps Chrome UFC signed by Ilia Topuria”, without the word Sapphire and without any fight. We read it on the photographed back of the Gold Sapphire.
His only Sapphire signature in 2025
CVA-ITO is Ilia Topuria's only autograph in 2025 Sapphire, and it has no counterpart in regular Chrome:
In 2025 Topps Chrome UFC he has no Chrome Veteran Autograph: that product's list does not include him, per Checklist Insider (secondary source). His signature there is the Mark of a Champion.
2025 Sapphire, the brand's UFC debut, was sold only on topps.com from 25 July 2025, at $279.99 a box: 8 packs of 4 cards and one signature per box, 10 boxes per case, per Checklist Insider (secondary source).
No odds: the 2025 Chrome UFC odds sheet leaves the Sapphire column empty, so we do not estimate how often CVA-ITO turns up.
Padparadscha Sapphire 1/1, Sapphire's one-of-one, among his 1/1 cards.
What gets confused
On the autographs the /10 is Black; on the base, Purple: the Sapphire #43 also has Green /75 and Red /5, which this autograph lacks.
What about a base version?Checklist Insider presents these four as the set's parallels, which suggests a no-colour version as well; we have not catalogued or seen one, so we do not count it as existing.