WWE trading card history began with early 1900s cigarette cards, but the modern era started with Topps' 1985 WWF Pro Wrestling Stars, capturing the Hulkamania boom alongside iconic sets from Fleer and others in the '90s and 2000s, introducing autographs, memorabilia, and chromium technology, leading to today's diverse market with major players like Topps and Panini creating premium, highly collectible cards featuring legends and current superstars, reflecting wrestling's evolving pop culture impact.
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2023 Panini Prizm WWE joined Prizm as the cornerstone chrome wrestling card releases for the year. Like Prizm, there’s a lot of color, but Select has a few other things going on that helps differentiate it. One of Select’s most notable features is the base set. It’s broken down into four sections — Concourse, Premier Level, Ringside and Mezzanine. Each tier has a slightly different design. More noticeable is the rarity with Concourse being the easiest to pull.
Michael Gregory Mizanin, signed to WWE, performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name “The Miz.” He first gained fame as a reality television participant, appearing on “The Real World: Back to New York” in 2001. He won “Battle of the Seasons” and “The Inferno II,” he would also win the Reality Stars-themed episode of “Fear Factor” in 2006. The Miz signed with WWE in 2004, and has been on the main roster full-time since 2006. He has won the WWE Championship twice, and the Intercontinental Championship eight times. He is WWE’s 25th Triple Crown Champion, and 14th Grand Slam Champion. He is the first, and to date only, WWE wrestler to simultaneously hold three championships in WWE, holding the United States Championship, the WWE Tag Team Championship, and the World Tag Team Championship in 2010. Among WWE’s most prolific pay-per-view event performers, The Miz headline WrestleMania XXVII in 2011, and was ranked No. 1 on Pro Wrestling Illustrated annual PWI 500 list that same year.
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