Top 10 for August, 2002   Heavyweight 1. Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira Brazil (650) 2. Josh Barnett USA (579) 3. Heath Herring USA (521) 4. Randy Couture USA (432) 5. Pedro Rizzo Brazil (378) 6. Ricco Rodriguez USA (374) 7. Tom Erikson USA (276) 8. Bob Sapp USA (190) 9. Don Frye USA (132) 10. Emelianenko Fedor USA (68) Light Heavyweight 1. Vanderlei Silva Brazil (562) 2. Chuck Liddell USA (554) 3. Tito Ortiz USA (490) 4. Ricardo Arona Brazil (405) 5. Murilo "Ninja" Rua Brazil (354) 6. Mirko "CroCop" Filipovic Croatia (341) 7. Vitor Belfort Brazil (315) 8. Dan Henderson USA (168) 9. Mario Sperry Brazil (161) 10. Sanae Kikuta Japan (70) Middleweight 1. Murilo Bustamante Brazil (650) 2. Anderson Silva Brazil (548) 3. Kazushi Sakuraba Japan (541) 4. Matt Lindland USA (474) 5. Paulo Filho Brazil (379) 6. Dave Menne USA (330) 7. Ivan Salaverry USA (276) 8. Alex Steibling USA (191) 9. Jose "Pele" Landi-Jons Brazil (115) 10. Phil Baroni USA (109) Welterweight 1. Matt Hughes USA (648) 2. Carlos Newton Canada (589) 3. Hayato Sakurai Japan (504) 4. Gil Castillo USA (432) 5. Frank Trigg USA (426) 6. Tetsuji Kato Japan (324) 7. Nathan Marquardt USA (234) 8. Kiuma Kunioku Japan (233) 9. Sean Sherk USA (137) 10. Shonie Carter Brazil (61) Lightweight 1. Jens Pulver USA (648) 2. Takanori Gomi Japan (578) 3. B.J. Penn USA (532) 4. Kaoru Uno Japan (427) 5. Din Thomas USA (425) 6. D. Mishima Japan (322) 7. Javier Vasquez USA (264) 8. Rumina Sato Japan (203) 9. Ryan Bow USA (142) 10. Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro Brazil (71) Featherweight 1. Alexandre "Pequeno" Nogueira Brazil (635) 2. Tetsuo Katsuta Japan (573) 3. Katsuya Toita Japan (522) 4. Joao Roque Brazil (478) 5. Stephen Palling USA (391) 6. Hiroyuki Abe Japan (296) 7. Naoya Uematsu Japan (254) 8. Baret Yoshida USA (204) 9. Masahiro Oishi Japan (124) 10. Mamoru Japan (73)