What: 2019 Topps WWE Women's Division trading cards
Arrives: Sept. 4
Box basics: Two hits (one autograph guaranteed) in every 24-pack hobby box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: The WWE's female stars get their own set for a fourth consecutive year with a full array of autographs and memorabilia cards all focused on the division that main-evented WrestleMania for the first time this year.

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The box: 2018-19 Topps Finest UEFA Champions League soccer cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
Packs per box: 12 (via two mini-boxes)
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 60
Base set completion: 
42 of 100 (42 percent)
Duplicates: 0

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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls, returning to collecting, Zack Hample and more in today's edition.

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The box: 2018 Topps WWE NXT
The cost: Click here (when available) ... click here for other WWE boxes

Packs per box: 10 (a sampling of everything in gallery below)
Cards per pack: 7
Cards in this box: 70
Base set completion: 
26 of 50 (52 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Kairi Sane, Tommasso Ciampa, Adam Cole, Peyton Royce, Triple H, William Regal, Otis Dozovic, Tucker Knight, Aliyah, Paul Ellering, No Way Jose, Andrade "Cien" Almas, Lio Rush

Rookie Cards/First NXT (5) – Shayna Baszler, Taynara Conti, Fabian Aichner, Vanessa Borne, Cezar Bononi

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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls from MLB, NFL and WWE breaks along with WrestleMania chatter and "has Tom Brady hurt the hobby?"

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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls, WrestleMania predictions, redemptions worth the wait and plenty more.

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What's Buzzing Today: Graded 1980s Rookie Cards, Fernando Tatis Jr. and a number of big breaks from several sports.

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The box: 2019 Topps Inception baseball cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 7
Base set completion: 
4 of 100 (4 percent)
Duplicates: 0

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One of the baseball card season's big waits and mysteries is over.

Chicago White Sox rookie Eloy Jimenez is the "B" mystery rookie redemption player found in packs of 2019 Topps Series 1 as well as Topps Heritage, Topps Inception and Gypsy Queen. 

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What: 2019 Super Break One-time 1950s Vintage Baseball
Arrives: May 28
Box basics: One PSA or BVG vintage card per box (four boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Super Break looks to the 1950s and baseball for this buyback brand that will include the biggest names in the game at that time.

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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls from around the collecting world, when players sign in the wrong place and views from the Shohei Ohtani Transcendent party.

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Not that long ago, one boxed set was easily found -- and it was a hotbed for Rookie Cards with a few autographs that might have some promise down the line.

That set? It's 2014 Topps Heritage High Number -- and it includes an autograph in every box along with a 100-card set that's stacked. Back then you could land them cheaply -- even for cases -- with red-ink autos an extra draw in a simple update to the 1965 Topps re-do from earlier in the year.

Now? Those same Rookie Cards are still in there -- we just look at them differently. Last night, New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom struck out a career-high 14 batters and matched the MLB record of 26 quality starts set by Hall of Famer Bob Gibson to put the focus of The Big Apple on him once again. The biggest driver -- arguably the breakout card -- in this one in recent years has been Mookie Betts after his American League MVP showing last season ... but he's not the only notable here.

Also found in this set? Masahiro Tanaka, James Paxton, Billy Hamilton, Xander Bogaerts, Nick Castellanos, George Springer, Kyle Hendricks, Jose Abreu and Jose Ramirez. Some of then have very few Rookie Cards from that year -- and there's ink for many of them in these boxes, too.

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Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals just might be to rip fewer blasters this year 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. Would they capture yours? I'd be interested to know -- sometimes they might, sometimes they won't and that's fine. It's a buyer's market out there with plenty of options and bargains as well as high-end gems to chase.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ... and this time around they're (mostly) affordable finds.

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A PIECE OF THE OCTAGON
The Card: Jon Fitch 2010 Topps UFC Main Event Authentic Cage Relics
The Price: $2.45
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This card was not one bought for the fighter but rather the type of Relic -- and you should know with this series that I'm a fan of unusual memorabilia cards. Bronze, Silver and Gold parallels can be found for this set which has a piece of the Octagon embedded into every card. There are 30 fighters in this one with the likes of Anderson Silva, Brock Lesnar, Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture, Rashad Evans and Georges St-Pierre among them. The Bronze (/88) are the easiest of the parallels while Silvers are limited to just eight copies and the Golds are 1/1s. Even retail boxes include a hit in these every time -- a mix of autos and Relics -- and the link below includes more than one option for you to chase stuff fresh from packs without spending a ton. This basic set has a strong lineup and some good highlights and these cards are unique (I don't think there are many others like it, if any). The parallels give you a tough chase but the basic set is do-able. I'm not there yet, but with super-cheap lesser names possible the set is perhaps more do-able than you might think on the cheap.
Grab a box/lot right here: 2010 Topps UFC Main Event

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What's Buzzing Today: Jacob deGrom's big night prompts Rookie Card talk, big pulls and more chatter in today's edition.

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Vince McMahon's Transcendent Collection autograph debut will not be a finale.

The WWE Chairman and CEO has signed more cards for Topps after making his debut in the priciest wrestling card set ever made and this time it's still a bit of a mystery as to where the ink is headed.

But they are coming.

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What's Buzzing Today: MLB breaks, "junk" cards that aren't, Eloy Jimenez, Miguel Andujar and plenty of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

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The biggest weekend in professional wrestling is here with WrestleMania 35 set for Sunday in New Jersey. It's a big week for WWE with its NXT and Hall of Fame events planned, and we'll make today a big day for wrestling collectors right here on The Buzz with #BuzzMania2, a series of WWE wax box and wax pack breaks.

This is our finale for today.

The box: 2017 Topps WWE NXT
The cost: Click here (when available)

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

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The biggest weekend in professional wrestling is here with WrestleMania 35 set for Sunday in New Jersey. It's a big week for WWE with its NXT and Hall of Fame events planned, and we'll make today a big day for wrestling collectors right here on The Buzz with #BuzzMania2, a series of WWE wax box and wax pack breaks every hour.

How long will we go? Stay tuned ...

The box: 2019 Topps WWE Road to WrestleMania
The cost: Click here for hobby

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The biggest weekend in professional wrestling is here with WrestleMania 35 set for Sunday in New Jersey. It's a big week for WWE with its NXT and Hall of Fame events planned, and we'll make today a big day for wrestling collectors right here on The Buzz with #BuzzMania2, a series of WWE wax box and wax pack breaks every hour.

How long will we go? Stay tuned ...

The box: 2016 Topps WWE Divas Revolution
The cost: Click here (when available)

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The biggest weekend in professional wrestling is here with WrestleMania 35 set for Sunday in New Jersey. It's a big week for WWE with its NXT and Hall of Fame events planned, and we'll make today a big day for wrestling collectors right here on The Buzz with #BuzzMania2, a series of WWE wax box and wax pack breaks every hour.

How long will we go? Stay tuned ...

The packs: 2018 Topps WWE Undisputed (three packs)
The cost: Click here

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The biggest weekend in professional wrestling is here with WrestleMania 35 set for Sunday in New Jersey. It's a big week for WWE with its NXT and Hall of Fame events planned, and we'll make today a big day for wrestling collectors right here on The Buzz with #BuzzMania2, a series of WWE wax box and wax pack breaks every hour.

How long will we go? Stay tuned ...

The box: 2018 Topps WWE Women's Division (blaster box)
The cost: Click here for hobby

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Blowout Cards has some free cardboard that could end up in your hands.

Well, arms ... since it's a case.

If you follow the @BlowoutCards Twitter account, you may have seen a little something last night that's pretty big when it comes to 2019 Topps Allen & Ginter.

The news? Blowout is giving away a case of 2019 Topps Allen & Ginter to a follower who gets in on the retweeting action.

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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 ... it's all MLB and WWE this time with a new baseball season under way and it being WrestleMania week.

The Card: 2018 Topps WWE Then Now Forever 25 Years of Raw #RAW28 Mr. McMahon's Limousine Explodes
The Reason Graded: You don't see why? This is one of the greatest cards I've ever seen in any set, and it simply had to lead off here, too. The heat you see on the card is only rivaled by the heat that is this card. (Something like that.) So, what's the story with this? In a June 2007 episode of Raw, WWE Chairman and ultimate on-screen villain Vince McMahon had an unusual evening on the air. At the end of the show he walked through a star-laden backstage area to go to his limo at the end of his "Appreciation Night." He stepped inside, closed the door and at that exact moment it exploded on live TV. (See it happen here and read all about the fallout.) The company was bombarded with phone calls from some members of the public and it even issued a press release that McMahon was, indeed, dead. The company's stock even took a hit (seriously) as part of the story line. Somehow, it took all of these years for this epic moment to make it onto a card.
The Grade: BGS 9.5

Reality Check: I was all over this one the second I saw the checklist and knew I'd own it in a slab. The super-skinny stock and dark edges make it tough to land without a tweaked edge or corner, but mine is the first and it's nearly perfect. (The spot on the right is part of the photo, not a nicked edge.) The only thing better than a near-perfect copy of a card like this would be one signed by VKM himself ... after all, he somehow survived. This card makes me laugh and I laugh even harder with a high-grade copy.

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but big pulls here ... check 'em out.

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but breaks and a discussion about group-breaking in today's edition.

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