BuzzMania 8: Opening With 2025 Topps Chrome WWE (Hour 1)

The biggest weekend in pro wrestling is here with WrestleMania 41 set for this Saturday and Sunday from Las Vegas. We'll make today a big one for wrestling collectors right here on The Buzz with #BuzzMania8, a marathon of wrestling breaks all day long.

This brand is The Big Kahuna of 2025 -- the first release in Topps' early return to the WWE card license -- and the home of some truly massive possible finds, so it opens the show today. (And, yes, we'll see it again later. That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.)

The Brand: 2025 Topps Chrome WWE (blaster box)

Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (all formats)

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

Base Breakdown

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 28
Base set completion: 
13 of 200 (7 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards: Shotzi, Dakota Kai, Lyra Valkyria, Kairi Sane, J.D. McDonagh, Carmella, Braun Strowman, Cruz Del Toro, Tony D'Angelo, Joe Coffey, Berto, Otis, Bronco Nima
(Note: Everything from this box is in the gallery below.)

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Insert Breakdown: 15
Refractors (1) – Dakota Kai
Sepia Refractors (3) – Kairi Sane, Joe Coffey, Bronco Nima
Prism Refractors (2) – Lyra Valkyria, Otis
Neon Green & Black Refractors (1) – Shawn Spears
Teal Laser Refractors (1) – Trish Stratus (/175)
1985 Topps (2) – Isla Dawn, Sami Zayn
Allen & Ginter (2) – Tama Tonga, Asuka
Allen & Ginter Refractors (1) – J.D. McDonagh
Wrestlemania Recall (1) – "Cowboy" Bob Orton
Title Town (1) – Eddie Guerrero

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The Hits (Autographs/Memorabilia/Manufactured Relic) Breakdown: None

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My Take Before I Broke This: Blasters home to some exclusives -- the Sepia (black and white in reality) parallels are only found here, for example -- and they might be the best of the un-numbered options in that they are super simple and have plenty of detail in the photos. Retail boxes also include Allen & Ginter cards only found here and the 1985s are all active stars (hobby is retired names). For standard price, there's potential ... not sure I'd pay more, though, as retail mega boxes have a little more meat guaranteed (a numbered exclusive insert or auto) every time -- megas are the better retail option.

Who Won The Battle? This box actually surprised me some with 15 inserts -- a hobby box only has 37 so that's a plus. A big negative on my pair of these blasters was repetition between base and parallels -- a total of 21 names over 28 cards this time ... that's a lot of repetition for a small box with small packs. (Every pack had a name where it'd been seen elsewhere in the box.) With a 200-card set, that shouldn't realistically happen but it's possible -- and that set size can also lead to a leaner mix of stars on base cards, which this one definitely has. I could have done better, I could have done worse ... I did OK but not as strong as I would have hoped.

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The Top Rookies: There are no Rookie Cards in this release. Some second-year NXT names are in there but none that even jump out of the pack at me for a sophomore spotlight mention in this spot. We'll see more rookies in the next seven breaks today.

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Card That Stole The Show: This WWE Hall of Famer brought some Stratusfaction with a numbered parallel in this box -- its only numbered card -- and that helped get it to an A. Without it, the box definitely wouldn't be an A at all. It would be a flat B without that card ... and that's probably being nice as there was at least one card in the mix here has a creased plastic layer and the base cards should have been stronger. Stratus made it better for this collector, though it's admittedly not that big of a card.

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Box/Case Grade: A- ... The insert volume here is good vs. hobby, so there's potential -- Stratus got it to a borderline A grade. Had the parallels not paralleled base in this box so hard, an easy A ... as long as some better names had shown up.
Fun Grade: B ... The repetition issue wasn't good here but it could be good here at times if this holds up across a lot of blasters and some top stars double up in these small boxes.

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The Bottom Line: It's a big release and there are big expectations -- but one shouldn't expect the moon in a small box like this one even though there are, potentially, some massive blasters out there. This one had its smaller issues but was still a nice surprise -- that's why it's opening today's breaks marathon.

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