I have a new favorite card back-and it's a wrestling card?!?

 I'm not sure I've ever written about wrestling cards on Cardboard History before, and to be honest I know very, very little about wrestling and wrestling cards. Perhaps that's somewhat of a surprise because among my friends in school, going back to the 1990s, it was probably the most popular sport amongst my friends. Enough that just by listening to them that I will recognize most of the names from circa 1996-02 era. 

Even though I don't actively collect wrestling, I will take any card into my collection. They all have a home with me, and in the museum I still hope to open some day. 

Earlier this week I got a surprise in the mail which was a huge box of cards packed full to the brim. One of my friends in the blogosphere dumped his unwanted cards on me which was a pleasant surprise, and among them was a box of wrestling cards. 

2015 Topps Heritage uses the 1985 Topps Baseball design, which is kinda strange on the surface that they used a baseball design for the wrestling throwback set, but that's Topps for you. They've been producing cards since 1949 yet ONLY use their baseball designs for throwbacks, I guess. Maybe they ran out of original wrestling designs to throw back to? I'll have to look that up at some point, I suppose. 

However, that worked out well in this case because just look at that card back. It's the brightest, greenest card I've ever seen, and green has always been my favorite color, the brighter the better. The cardstock used makes it really pop, much more than the brown cardstock of the original baseball set. 

Card backs don't get a lot of love in the hobby, but the instant I saw this one while going through the cards it became an instant favorite. 

I suppose if I'm going to show the back I should show the front too.

Just like the baseball set, the front design isn't as interesting as the back. I realize while typing this that knowing Topps they have probably used this exact design in a number of baseball throwback sets but I don't think I've seen any of those yet. I now have 6 cards out of this wrestling set, so yeah, the baseball ones would be tied as favorites. 

Now that Topps has the NBA license for the first time since 2009, I am hoping we get a Heritage or Archives set again. Topps Archives actually debuted in the NBA I believe, but we only got two Heritage sets, in 2000-01 and 2001-02. Fingers crossed we get one now in the current era going forward.