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The box: 2023 Bushiroad ReBirth For You New Japan Pro Wrestling & World Wonder Ring Stardom wrestling gaming cards
Where to buy: Will take some looking ... BlowoutCards.com for WWE & AEW

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Cactus Jack is headed to Wrestlemania 41.

No, not the WWE Hall of Famer known as Mick Foley -- this Cactus Jack is the brand from entertainer and WWE superfan Travis Scott and will arrive as part of Wrestlemania weekend beginning tomorrow at WWE World, the multi-day fan interactive experience before the big show this weekend.

Beginning at noon Pacific time, 2025 Topps Chrome WWE Cactus Jack x Wrestlemania will be live.

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What's Buzzing: Nico Iamaleava and college football's mess, Aaron Judge, Heritage, Chrome WWE, MLB chatter and more.

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1 -- Still talking 2024 Topps Heritage High Number

2 -- Checking in on the Aaron Judge thread

3 -- Topps Chrome WWE chatter as Mania nears

4 -- College football is on their minds

5 -- Inception with a big initialgraph

6 -- Plenty of MLB chatter here

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What's Buzzing: NFL and MLB chatter, Heritage High Number, new NFL pulls and a new twist for Wrestlemania.

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1 -- All your baseball chatter is here

2 -- WWE chatter as Wrestlemania is this weekend

3 -- Opening some Optic NFL

4 -- Inside a box of Spectra

5 -- Heritage High Number still on their minds

6 -- Talking football

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What's Buzzing: The Masters, awaiting Wrestlemania, Nick Kurtz, non-sports, football and more.

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1 -- Masters chatter as Rory McIroy finally wins it

2 -- WWE chatter as Wrestlemania is this weekend

3 -- Too early to talk Nick Kurtz?

4 -- There is no ratio

5 -- Off-season football chatter

6 -- A non-sports update

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What's Buzzing: Wrestlemania is a week away, MLB chatter, real or fake MJs, showing off Ovechkin cards and more.

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1 -- Plenty of MLB chatter here

2 -- Real or fake?

3 -- WWE talk with Mania a week away

4 -- Showing off Ovechkin cards

5 -- Heritage blaster for the win

6 -- Offseason NFL chatter is strong

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What's Buzzing: Minecraft cards, best pens for autographs on glossy cards, Ichiro Suzuki, sketch cards, WWE and more.

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1 -- New pulls are here

2 -- Talking WWE as Wrestlemania nears

3 -- Talking Minecraft cards ... get yours here

4 -- Sketch cards

5 -- Ichiro Suzuki card chatter

6 -- Talking autograph pens for glossy cards

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WWE star Shotzi Blackheart revisits her old NXT stomping grounds on Oct. 18, 2022. (WWE photo)

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It's one step closer to match-used, but still not there -- yet it's still an iconic piece of a moment for a colorful WWE star.

That's how I'd describe the item in this third installment of a series with a tweaked name -- a tank-driven tangent in my Collecting Game-used series to be more specific -- and it's one that didn't take a whole lot of research time at all before I added this to my collection of memorabilia.

As should be obvious, it's once again from Shotzi Blackheart, who I collect rather seriously in the traditional realms involving Panini America and Topps cardboard, and this item, which came directly from her, also is one that's forever captured in TV history and beyond.

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What's Buzzing: Alexander Ovechkin ties Wayne Gretzky, showing off all Ginter non-MLB ink and more.

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1 -- Alexander Ovechkin ties Wayne Gretzky's goals record

2 -- All your MLB chatter is here

3 -- Showing off all Ginter ink -- but not baseball -- since 2006

4 -- Still talking football

5 -- Reactions to new WWE drama

6 -- Check out this vintage NFL piece

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Here's this month's roundup of items that have recently caught my eye as a buyer ...

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'TIS THE SEASON
The Card: Rhea Ripley 2020 Topps Chrome WWE Refractor autographed Rookie Card parallel (BGS 9, 10 auto -- BAS & Fanatics Witnessed)
The Price: Less than a 2025 Topps Chrome WWE retail mega box these days
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: She's one of WWE's top stars and this was a key card at a somewhat-modest price considering it's a RC parallel with ink attached -- and it's fully graded, too. Sure, that's not the "Mami" mode/look of Ripley in the here and now -- her hair and look changed a lot while in NXT and early on -- but that different does reinforce "rookie" in a visual way along with that gear. I'm sure I have a copy of this card in my stash unsigned somewhere -- and I know I have a couple colors of her certified auto here -- but this was still an easy addition and an easy choice to lead things off this month. Why? Since it's Wrestlemania season (the big one is on April 19-20). Oh, and there might be (intentionally) a little more wrestling this time vs. my norm, too. Ripley has a lot of cardboard but is among the safest bets there is to grab bargains and stash them away. Why? She's only 28 and has been in the game more than a decade and there figures to be plenty more to come for her in WWE. Interestingly, this one is also graded and in the BGS pop report, so it could have led off Making The Grade this month. It's a pop-three card with one lower and one higher, a 9.5, with five total copies graded.
Grab a box right here: Nothing for this ... but WWE cards are here.

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading ... so here's this month's grading diary.

STARTING ON A SERIOUS NOTE ...
The Card: Will Ferrell 2015 Topps Archives Will Ferrell Inserts
The Reason Graded: Back in 2015 this comedy legend took to the field for 10 MLB teams and played 10 positions in a single day of real spring training action -- you can see his stats here -- as part of a project with a charity component called Ferrell Takes The Field. Collectors ended up chasing his autographs on 10 different cards in Archives that year -- roughly one per hobby case if I remember correctly -- but, alas, I went 0-for-1 there before those boxes got too pricy and/or vanished ... but I did hit the blasters. There, the regular Ferrell inserts were found one per box -- at least until all of those boxes disappeared, too. It's been a decade since this publicity stunt took place (March 12, 2015), so I figured we could start this new MLB season here on a serious note. These aren't his only cards -- he popped up a few times that year -- but this was the first set and this was the first card -- and one for my team.
The Grade: CGC 10

Reality Check: There's a small volume of stuff slabbed for this card -- roughly all cards here have no more than 10 slabbed copies across the entire set -- and this is among the top marks. This card has full-bleed back edges in bright blue just like in 1965 Topps and when I saw how clean this card was, well, it was a no-brainer. I previously slabbed one elsewhere years ago and this copy will go well with that and a slab of the same photo used on a magazine cover that ended up on a show promo card. A lot of those who likely weren't collecting back then seem to be interested here as asking prices can be steep -- raw or graded -- for Ferrell stuff.

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What's Buzzing: The New York Yankees' torpedo bats, MLB pulls and chatter, WWE, LeBron vs. Stephen A. Smith and more.

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1 -- Talking Yankees torpedo bats

2 -- More MLB chatter here

3 -- WWE chatter as Mania nears

4 -- Make it stop?

5 -- New pulls in the baseball section ...

6 -- Still talking Heritage High Number

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The Box: 2021 Topps WWE Slam Attax (Topps India Smart Pack)
Where to buy: Will take some looking -- get standard WWE boxes here

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The boxes: 2022 AEW Allure wrestling cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (when available) 

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What's Buzzing: JuJu Watkins and March Madness chatter, Heritage High Number, MLB's best card guys and more.

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1 -- All your basketball chatter is here

2 -- The March Madness thread

3 -- Still a no

4 -- They've got the fans talking ... 

5  -- Still talking Heritage High Number ...

6 -- Assessing MLB's best baseball card guys

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What's Buzzing: The Dodgers win again (in Japan), Shohei Ohtani, NFL chatter, sketch cards and more in this mid-week edition.

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1 -- All your MLB chatter as the season is here

2 -- Shohei Ohtani is still on their minds ... Roki Sasaki is, too

3 -- One for Steelers fans

4 -- Showing off sketch cards

5  -- Stranger Things reactions

6 -- Wrestling cards are the focus here

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This unusual item in my collection comes from a high-profile dealmaker in the reel world and since it was captured on film that makes this piece game-used ... used in The Hollywood Game that is.

My latest in the Collecting Game-used series is something I grabbed last year but it got lost in the shuffle with some delays on photo-matching end and, well, it's still not yet definitively matched to the frame above -- but I think it's likely. It's something straight from the production of Ballers and the fuzzy visual above was found, with some dumb luck, in a semi-pirated, fan-tweaked clip somewhere out there on YouTube months ago. Rather than spend more time and a few bucks to revisit HBO Max and find it, I'm just going to let it roll here today.

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Photo-matching a piece of used memorabilia is easier in some sports, especially in today's era of often-authenticated, slap-a-sticker-on-it premium items that can make up a meaty revenue stream for a lot of sports leagues. But, no matter what it is -- or where a piece is from -- it always comes down to one thing.

Details.

Grimey and beaten-down baseball bats? They can have plenty of details between player customizations, models, manufacturers and damage from use. Mangled used football jerseys? Stains and tears of course -- you know, details. Baseball or basketball uniforms? Tougher but still do-able ... thanks to the details of tagging, stitching and other minute things that change over time.

But in the wrestling realm? Well, details still apply ... but things might be a little different to verify depending on a star's habits, styles and budgets for in-ring gear or their tastes for their fashion outside of the ring. Sometimes, those are the same. Sometimes they have to be different ... that's this time.

This second installment with a tweaked name in my Collecting Game-used series is one for a pick-up that wasn't a definitive match when I recently found it. It was a guessing game to a degree until I could get the item in hand for a closer look at ... the details. The star once again is Shotzi Blackheart, who I collect rather seriously in the traditional realms involving Panini America and Topps cardboard, and this item, which came directly from her, was one where those it was those cards that helped solve the mystery.

Keep reading to see all the ... details.

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What's Buzzing: Jac Caglianone, new MLB pulls, a Sapphire WWE surprise, NBA cards, errors and more.

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1 -- Checking in on the Jac Caglianone chatter

2 -- 2025 Topps pulls and more

3 -- Sapphire WWE box delivers a surprise

4 -- NBA cards are on their minds

5  -- Look for the one odd card mentioned here

6 -- Sell the Rays? (What about the Marlins?)

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What's Buzzing: New pulls, volume ripping, WWE chatter, buy the card not the grade, Cheers cards and more.

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1 -- Some volume ripping of Leaf Metal autos

2 -- What's next in WWE?

3 -- Some new basketball pulls

4 -- All your off-season football chatter

5  -- Buy the card, not the grade

6 -- Still talking Cheers cards ... Get your box here!

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What's Buzzing: Hall of Fame voting change, error cards, Gold Prizms, Cheers cards and more have them talking.

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1 -- Error cards and misprints are on their minds

2 -- Hall of Fame voting change might eliminate debate 

3 -- Gooooooooollllllllldd NBA Prizms and Refractors

4 -- Heritage High Number has 'em talking

5  -- Topps Now WWE chatter has some gems

6 -- Talking Cheers cards ... Get your box here!

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What's Buzzing: Roki Sasaki arrives throwing heat, NFL Draft chatter, fake cardboard alert, predicting future NBA "bigs," Cheers cards and more.

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1 -- NFL Draft thoughts ...

2 -- Talking Spring Training ...

3 -- Fake cardboard: A thread to know

4 -- Predicting future NBA "bigs"

5  -- Chrome WWE chatter

6 -- Talking Cheers cards ...

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What's Buzzing: WWE has 'em talking heading to Wrestlemania, Starting Lineup, basketball chatter, Cheers cards and more in this Tuesday edition.

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1 -- MLB: The Hall of Very Good

2 -- Some international non-sports ...

3 -- Talking Cheers cards ...

4 -- All your basketball chatter is here

5  -- I'm not

6 -- WWE still has 'em talking ... about a few things

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What's Buzzing: New football breaks, a new thing to watch out for, Shedeur Sanders, John Cena, Pete Rose and more in this Monday edition.

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1 -- Must-read: A new kind of scheming

2 -- Did you know?

3 -- Collectors have their thoughts

4 -- Nope

5  -- New football breaks are piling up

6 -- Nope, it wasn't Cody Rhodes ... John Cena sold his soul

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What's Buzzing: John Cena sells his soul, new pulls, NFL & MLB chatter, Joel Embiid and more in this Sunday edition.

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1 -- Nope, it wasn't Cody Rhodes ... John Cena sold his soul

2 -- Plenty of MLB chatter is here

3 -- Still talking Luka and the Lakers

4 -- Reactions to Joel Embiid

5  -- Check out all of the new pulls here

6 -- Postseason NFL chatter is here

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