John Cena WrestleMania 41 Patch Autograph Card Sells for Record $329,400 at Goldin

A one-of-one John Cena card featuring a patch he wore at WrestleMania 41 has sold for $329,400 at Goldin, setting a new record for the highest public sale of any wrestling card. The 2025 Topps Royalty WWE WrestleMania Patch Autographs #WPA-JCE combines Cena’s hard-signed autograph with a multicolored WrestleMania 41 patch taken from the gear he wore during the event. The card is graded PSA NM-MT 8.

Bidding reached a $270,000 hammer price before Goldin’s buyer’s premium pushed the final sale to $329,400. Goldin announced the result over the weekend as the all-time highest public price for a wrestling card.

The card is a true one-of-one, but the moment attached to the patch gives it another layer of significance. Cena wore the patch during Night 2 of WrestleMania 41 on April 20, 2025, when he defeated Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE Championship. The victory gave Cena his 17th world championship and moved him past Ric Flair’s long-standing 16-title mark. It also turned out to be Cena’s final WrestleMania appearance before his retirement from in-ring competition later that year.

Topps began using special WrestleMania-worn patches in its cards from that event, creating cards that connect directly to specific matches rather than simply using generic memorabilia. In Cena’s case, the patch comes from one of the biggest matches of his career. That combination of a one-of-one print run, hard-signed autograph and event-used material from a historic WrestleMania helped push the card far beyond previous wrestling-card records.

Before the Cena sale, the benchmark for an individual wrestling card stood at $132,000 for a 1982 Wrestling All-Stars Series A Hulk Hogan #2 graded PSA Mint 9. Heritage Auctions sold that card in December 2024.

Cena’s $329,400 result more than doubled that price. The card had already attracted attention well before the auction closed. With extended bidding still ahead, it had climbed to $230,000 before buyer’s premium on September 19. By the end of the night, another round of bidding pushed the hammer price to $270,000.

The result also shows how quickly the market for premium modern wrestling cards has changed. Historically, the biggest wrestling-card sales were dominated by vintage issues such as Hogan’s 1982 Wrestling All-Stars card. Modern products have increasingly introduced one-of-one parallels, autographs and match-used memorabilia that can tie a card directly to a major moment in wrestling history.