UPDATE: Brock Lesnar's First Topps UFC Auto Surfaces, Sells

I’m waitin’ for a Brock on the Bay,
Watchin’ time float away

Ooh, I’m just waitin’ for a Brock on the Bay,
Wastin’ time . . .

Welcome to my world.

That inane chorus – played to the tune of Otis Redding’s classic “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” – has been continuously looping in my head since Wednesday morning. That’s when 2009 Topps UFC, the product packing heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar’s ballyhooed first certified autograph card, finally hit the secondary market.

It’s now Thursday morning . . . and I’m still waiting.

(UPDATE: Thanks to Beckett Blog reader marco for bringing the first confirmed sale of Lesnar’s base autograph to our attention; $549, huh? That’s substantial.)

In the global, everything’s-available-to-everyone-as-soon-as-it’s-live collecting world that eBay has wrought, the fact that not even one Lesnar autograph has surfaced so far (when so many other key, relatively tough cards from the set have),  likely means we’re dealing with some massively short short-prints.

I’ve been eagerly anticipating the arrival of Lesnar’s premiere certified autographs – he has a base version, a Red Ink parallel and a Bloodlines insert – ever since Topps first confirmed that it had landed him for the set. Not necessarily because I’m a huge fan of his, but because I’m a huge fan of hobby history – and these cards, when they finally surface, will most certainly make a lot of that.

Simply, the pent-up demand for his signatures is too varied (UFC, WWE, NFL), too impatient and too intensely passionate for what appears to be a startlingly limited supply. That combination is sure to create some epic bidding wars on eBay when — or if — they ever appear.

Until then, I’ll be here. Waitin’ for a Brock on the Bay . . .

Dang it.

— Tracy Hackler