Leaf 2011 MMA Metal delayed ...

**windmortal** · 04-22-2011, 03:59 PM

By G. Kerry Webster
Plans are coming together for Leaf Trading Card Co.'s second stand-alone mixed martial arts set, but it doesn't look like the company will release the new set until sometime during the late summer, or possibly, early fall.

Leaf President Brian Gray recently told Combat Cardboard the set is scheduled to feature all, on-card autographs, and getting those autographs back into company headquarters is going to be the snag causing the delay.

"The biggest challenge with putting this set together is that we want it to be all on-card autographs," said Gray. "I hate metal or chrome cards that have the sticker autographs on them, and at all costs, I want to try and avoid that. So, to do all on-card autographs for 60 to 70 fighters we have cards going all over the world.

"One thing we learned about MMA is that fighters are not quite as used to signing cards and returning them as some of the other traditional athletes are," Gray continued. "Fighters, for whatever reason, lose the cards or the stickers, or just don't return anything. It's frustrating, but that's part of trying to put an all on-card set together. If these cards are lost or misplaced, they are irreplaceable. There is no printing more of the more. It's a very fragile situation, but to me, it's worth taking the extra time to bring a quality product to collectors."

Read the rest of the story at www.combatcardboard.com