What: 2025 Panini Combat Anthology trading cards
Arrives: Oct. 29
Box basics: Two autographs per four-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Panini expands its scope in the fight game with a multi-disciplined look around the sports world all in one spot that includes wrestling, MMA, boxing and potentially more with current stars of select promotions as well as legends of the past who worked a little bit of everywhere in their careers.

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The packs: 2024 Leaf Metal Signature Series Multi-sport 1/1 Pre-Production Proofs (two)
Where to buy: Click here for other Leaf Metal boxes

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What's Buzzing: Pondering the best in 2000s MLB, NBA postseason, MMA chatter, new pulls and more in this midweek edition.

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1 -- Wondering about 2025 Topps Update 

2 -- Still pondering the best MLB players of the 2000s

3 -- An upside down patch (and it happens often)

4 -- New football pulls

5 -- Some MMA topics to see

6 -- NBA postseason chatter

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What: 2025 Panini Contenders Professional Fighters League MMA trading cards
Arrives: June 11
Box basics: Four autographs per four-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Panini America unleashes its first in-pack release for the stars of the Professional Fighters League with an autographed card in every pack and an array of past and present stars in the mix.

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The box: 2024 Topps Finest UFC trading cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

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What: 2024 Topps UFC Royalty trading cards
Arrives: April 4, 2025
Box basics: Five autographs and three Relics per 10-card box (four boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps takes UFC high-end with a release that's nearly all about the hits as it showcases big names in the sport in a premium way.

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The pack: 2024 Leaf Metal Women of Sport 1/1 Pre-Production Proofs
Where to buy: Click here for regular boxes (when available)

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What: 2024 Leaf Electrum Multi-sport trading cards
Arrives: Aug. 30
Box basics: Three autographed cards per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf introduces a new line that meshes the world of sport with notables from pop culture all in one spot that's solely about autographs.

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The box: 2024 Keepsake Edition Bruce Lee 50th Anniversary trading cards
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals is to rip a little less and talk more about cardboard that I -- and you -- might like. One way to do that? Simple show and tell -- present a few pick-ups and say why they captured my attention.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ... 

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A STRATUSFACTORY ADDITION 
The Card: Trish Stratus 2014 Topps WWE Road to WrestleMania Trish Stratus Pants Relic
The Price: Less than a typical low-end hobby box
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This WWE Hall of Famer got her own tribute set in this Topps release and part of the project also included a small batch of jumbo memorabilia cards that, unlike most Topps WWE stuff, wasn't loaded with pieces of shirts or mat pieces. Instead, these jumbos were massive swatches of some match-worn pants from the multi-time champ and they're also seen on the cards themselves in at least one instance. (This one.) These weren't impossible pulls back then -- I just never found one and they were pricey for Relics -- but I latched onto one when it surfaced to have it in my stash almost a decade later. With so many new boxes being pricey or less enticing at times because of that in all sports, I've found myself being more selective and playing the waiting game on some ... and buying up selected singles perhaps for more than I typically do. Though at the same time, the markets are starting to feel a little more normal here and there. This is an example of that.
Grab a box right here: None for this one ... find WWE boxes here.

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Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals is to rip a little less and talk more about cardboard that I -- and you -- might like. One way to do that? Simple show and tell -- present a few pick-ups and say why they captured my attention.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ... 

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HISTORIC INK 
The Card: Rachel Balkovec 2022 Topps Now MiLB Autographs (/99)
The Price: Around $10 (since I had discount rewards piled up) via Topps.com
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This autographed card was a first for Topps Now this year -- some minor-league cardboard -- since as you can see she was a bit of a history-maker in MiLB and baseball in general. Topps Now cards have had delays at times this year with stock shortages and this one was actually initially scheduled to arrive much later this year but it looks like the signing came together faster than expected. I believe this is my first Topps Now auto in my stash. Why? Cost is always a factor -- most are too much for me to bother looking -- but in this case it was about as low as it gets and then I snuck in toward the end of the line and added this on the cheap with rewards points from buys.
Grab a box right here: No boxes for this one ... but MiLB boxes are here.

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.

Here's this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ...

GRADING MORE GOATs
The Card: Patrick Mahomes 2017 Panini The Rooks #RO-PM
The Reason Graded: Just like I've mentioned in past months, I've made it a focus to get most -- if not all -- of my Mahomes rookie-year cards slabbed up since I actually had amassed a few from that year. (That was mostly because I was hitting the retail clearance bins pretty hard.) This one is an insert from the stone cold -- at least back then -- Panini NFL set that was a relatively simple release and had a hit in every box yet really sat everywhere for a long time. (Why? The border designs felt pretty heavy to me but for others it may have just been too low-end.) Not that long ago, I slabbed his basic RC from this so I figured I needed to get this one into a case, too.
The Grade: CSG 9.5

Reality Check: It was pretty clean just like last time as it earned one of the tougher grades from CSG. I figure once a pop report comes (sometime soon*) this should look like a pretty solid card. I don't see there being a large number of 10s coming with this paper stock and I figure a lot of these cards were probably graded in BGS or PSA slabs long before I got around to doing mine.

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Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals is to rip a little less and talk more about cardboard that I -- and you -- might like. One way to do that? Simple show and tell -- present a few pick-ups and say why they captured my attention.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ... and this time around there's a bit of everything.

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A SLEEPER NO MORE
The Card: Rhea Ripley 2020 Topps WWE Transcendent Collection -- Rookie Card (/50)
The Price: More than I want to admit ... but less than a Chrome box
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This was a card I was watching for intently when the second edition of Topps' WWE super-premium brand arrived, and this one was on my radar before any autograph in the super-rare release -- well at least within my typical budget. Why? She's pretty much the only newcomer of note in the base set -- I spy at least one other who is no longer with WWE and one other lesser name -- amidst a sea of past greats and some notables from today. It's an odd set as it's not the typical lineup but also not a full lineup. (I think the checklist-maker tried to cover all the main bases between the base set and the auto set.) Nobody got an RC logo here and this card's thunder may be stolen a bit with the delays resulting in her Undisputed and Chrome cards arriving close together -- and with her first certified autos -- just recently. This card has topped the $100 mark and is bolstering some of the base set prices out there. (On the cheapest side, these were around $60 in terms of sales but asking prices are now far higher.) I'm somewhere in between but I ponied up as this Aussie badass should be a major player soon. I'll grab ink and other cards eventually.
Grab a box: 2020 Topps WWE Transcendent Collection

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What: 2020 Topps UFC cards
Arrives: Aug. 26
Box basics: Two autographs per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: UFC gets a flagship-style card set with the 2020 Topps MLB design hitting the Octagon with plenty of hits, a number of inserts and a ton of the big names you would expect to see.

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Normally, this Collecting Game-used series spotlights a recent find of mine of the complete-item variety -- a pieces of equipment matched to a specific moment from a game where I take you beyond the authentication to see precisely when it was used via photo-matching.

This is not that time -- we're going from card swatch to action.

The Topps ring mat Relic you see above shows Georges St-Pierre and is from UFC 158 and is a jumbo piece with three distinct stripes of color that seem like they aren't the norm -- and a simple image search showed me where it was from. And then when I went to the video tape, well, it became even more obvious.

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What: 2019 Topps UFC Museum Collection MMA cards
Arrives: Nov. 20
Box basics: Two autographs and one Relic per eight-card box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Museum Collection hits the Octagon for the fourth consecutive year with the familiar looks for the brand and at least one new inclusion on the booklet-card front.

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What: 2019 Super Break One-time Heavy Hitters
Arrives: July 1
Box basics: One buyback card per box (three boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Super Break is back with big names in buyback form here -- a mix of baseball, football, basketball, hockey and more.

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices right now right here as BlowoutCards.com has started its April Showers sales that will add new stuff every week.

The first batch is here and many of the discounts were dramatic enough that Buzz had to sit down and ponder the possibilities in many of the boxes and cases -- and here are five options that caught this collector’s eye.

2017 Panini Donruss Optic NFL fat pack
Want to chase Patrick Mahomes Rookie Cards on the cheap but with the potential for plenty more like other key RCs and parallels? This might be the best place to look right now as these packs are slashed to a fraction of their original price. Lime parallels are only found in these packs and a raw Mahomes can sell for a solid amount while a PSA 10 recently sold for more than $200. There are, of course, standard versions and Prizms in this one as well as inserts -- I'll be ordering a max of 20 packs just for fun and look for a Buzz Break of this one here soon because the price is great for the potential to be found. (And Mahomes is far from alone as far as notables here are concerned.)

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The box: 2018 Topps Chrome UFC trading cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 96
Base set completion: 69 of 100 (69 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Demetrious Johnson, Lyoto Machida, Amanda Nunes, Uriah Faber, Stipe Miocic, Rose Namajunas, Paige VanZant, Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Cris Justino, Crissy Blair, Chuck Liddell, Arianny Celeste, Alistair Overeem, Frankie Edgar, Holly Holm, Forrest Griffin, Cody Garbrandt, Georges St-Pierre, Cub Swanson, Conor McGregor

Rookie Cards (12) – Eryk Anders, Curtis Blaydes, Nicco Montano, Kevin Lee, Zabit Magomedsharipov, Dominick Reyes, Darren Till, Justin Gaethje, Tai Tuivasa, Sean O'Malley, Sijara Eubanks, Marlon Moraes

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What: 2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection MMA cards
Arrives: Nov. 14
Box basics: One auto, one auto Relic and one Relic per eight-card box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps brings its Museum Collection brand to UFC collectors as a hobby-only release for a third year run a row with plenty of familiar inclusions.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Floyd Mayweather's big win over Conor Mcgregor, Julian Edelman's season-ending injury, Rhys Hoskins' power surge, Elgin Baylor ink and big NFL pulls.

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This year's National Sports Collectors Convention is set for Aug. 3-7 in Atlantic City, N.J., but that hasn't stopped Upper Deck from revealing the first promotional cards that will only initially be found at the event.

The company will produce a five-card VIP set along with a wrapper redemption program.

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