Buzz Break: 2022 Panini Prizm UFC trading cards (blaster)

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The box: 2022 Panini Prizm UFC trading cards (blaster)
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Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (hobby and retail)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 24
Base set completion: 
18 of 200 (9 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Valentina Shevchenko, Neil Magny, Stephen Thompson, Matt Brown, Khamzat Chimaev, Cub Swanson, Merab Dvalishvili, Nina Nunes, Kevin Holland, Raphael Assuncao, Volkan Oezdemir, Kai Kara-France

Rookie Cards (6) – Jack Shore, Ilia Topuria, Sean Strickland, Billy Quarantillo, Tucker Lutz, Sumudaerji

Insert cards: 6 (all cards from box in gallery below)
Silver Prizm parallels (1) – Kevin Gastelum
Fearless (2) – Valentina Shevchenko, Derrick Lewis
Fireworks (1) – Alexander Volkanovski
Prizm Flashback (1) – Nate Diaz
Bonus Machines (1) – Jessica Andrade

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

Brutal vertical centering on many of the base cards made this one a bummer.

What's Buzz-worthy: I landed this one I a bulk lot of blasters, so the sting of all of the awfully centered base cards (all verticals) wasn't as bad as it would have been had I paid full price -- or a premium price -- for a box that has been in demand in the past. It was a bummer with that -- with the rest of the stuff pulling its grade up to average at best here. ... As I've noted in a past rip, Silvers are only in play for base cards here while two types of Greens are on everything including the various autograph sets found here. This box didn't include a ton of names I know -- I'm not a big UFC guy -- but there was some decent star power among the inserts and six RCs from a meaty 200-card base set. All in all, like the WWE release, blasters aren't all that flashy for Prizm ... so your best bet is to buy a few at once or rip into hobby boxes and larger formats for guaranteed stuff and some volume while those last.

Product Grade: B+
Box Grade: C (every vertical base card being badly off-centered made this one a bummer regardless of the rest of it)
Fun Grade: C (see above)

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