Three named autograph sets drive the 2026 Panini Contenders PFL checklist: Championship Moments Signatures, PFL Ink, and Season Ticket Signatures. Each pulls from a different slice of the roster, and each carries its own rarity ladder.
What makes this checklist genuinely interesting for collectors is the mix. Current PFL champions sign alongside legacy Bellator-era names like Fedor Emelianenko and Cris Cyborg, who fought under a banner that no longer technically exists as a separate promotion.
That mix raises a fair question: are those legacy autographs actually new to 2026, or did they simply carry over from last year's debut product? The honest answer, sourced directly from the checklist tracker's own release notes, is carryover.
Here is the full breakdown of all three sets, who is confirmed where, and exactly how the 2025-to-2026 carryover works.
Season Ticket Signatures is the largest autograph checklist in the product, running 63 cards with parallels stacking from Red Fireworks up through a 1-of-1 Championship Ticket. This is the set most likely to land in any given Hobby box given its size relative to the other two.
Confirmed names here include Fedor Emelianenko, Cris Cyborg, Quinton Jackson, Tito Ortiz, Anthony Pettis, and Frank Mir, all cross-referenced against current checklist listings. Current PFL fighters like Johnny Eblen, Usman Nurmagomedov, and Dakota Ditcheva also appear in this set alongside the legacy names.
Championship Moments Signatures is described in checklist coverage as all-new for 2026, built around 27 cards that revisit specific title-fight moments in PFL history rather than a generic player-autograph format. Parallels run through Cracked Ice, Gold, and a 1-of-1 Platinum tier.
Cris Cyborg appears here too, alongside current-era names like Usman Nurmagomedov, Vadim Nemkov, and Dakota Ditcheva. Earlier reporting on this set cited a 17-card count, but the live checklist tracker lists 27 numbered cards, which is the figure this guide is working from.
PFL Ink is back for a second year, running 52 cards with the same spilled-ink visual treatment that defined its 2025 debut. Parallels run from Red Fireworks through 1-of-1 Platinum, same structure as the other two autograph sets.
This checklist skews more toward current-roster fighters than the other two sets, with names like Johnny Eblen, Renan Ferreira, and Movlid Khaybulaev appearing alongside legacy names in smaller numbers.
This is worth stating plainly rather than glossing over: the dedicated checklist tracker's own release coverage states that the 2026 autograph pool carries over from 2025, aside from the new Championship Moments Signatures set. That means Fedor, Cyborg, Rampage Jackson, Tito Ortiz, Anthony Pettis, and Frank Mir are not new signers for 2026; they are returning signers whose autographs first appeared in the 2025 product.
Two names deserve a specific caveat. Ken Shamrock and Chael Sonnen both appear as base and insert cards in the 2026 checklist, but neither name turned up in the Season Ticket Signatures autograph listing this guide cross-referenced. A third name sometimes mentioned alongside this group, Randy Couture, did not appear anywhere in the 2026 checklist checked for this guide, base or autograph. Treat any Couture 2026 autograph claim as unconfirmed until a primary source lists it directly.
All three autograph sets share a similar parallel structure: a base version, then Red and Blue Fireworks, then a Cracked Ice tier numbered to 25, then Gold and Gold Fireworks numbered to 10, and finally 1-of-1 Black Fireworks and Platinum versions. Cracked Ice specifically has been confirmed on signed cards like a numbered Cyborg autograph, so it is a real, pullable tier rather than a rumored one.
Knowing this ladder ahead of a box break helps set realistic expectations. A base-level Season Ticket Signature of a current roster fighter is a very different pull, both in rarity and resale value, than a Cracked Ice or Gold version of the same name.
Three: Championship Moments Signatures, PFL Ink, and Season Ticket Signatures.
Yes, it is reported as an all-new set for 2026, unlike the other two returning sets.
Yes, per the checklist tracker's release notes, the autograph pool carries over aside from the new set.
No, Couture did not appear in the 2026 checklist checked for this guide.
1-of-1 Black Fireworks and Platinum parallels sit at the top of all three sets.
An autographed card is the one pull you cannot afford to handle casually while sorting the rest of the box. Slide it straight into a EVORETRO magnetic one-touch holder before it goes anywhere near a binder page or a shipping envelope.
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