Top 10 for January, 2002   Heavyweight 1. Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira Brazil (638) 2. Randy Couture USA (597) 3. Heath Herring USA (495) 4. Pedro Rizzo Brazil (422) 5. Josh Barnett USA (402) 6. Mark Coleman USA (339) 7. Igor Vovchanchyn Ukraine (276) 8. Ricco Rodriguez USA (190) 9. Mario Sperry Brazil (141) 10. Kazuyuki Fujita Japan (105) Light Heavyweight 1. Tito Ortiz USA (559) 2. Vanderlei Silva Brazil (549) 3. Vitor Belfort Brazil (542) 4. Chuck Liddell USA (454) 5. Dan Henderson USA (391) 6. Ricardo Arona Brazil (315) 7. Sanae Kikuta Japan (265) 8. Kevin Randleman USA (202) 9. Vernon "Tiger" White USA (95) 10. Vladimir Matsushenko Belarus (93) Middleweight 1. Murilo Bustamante Brazil (632) 2. Kazushi Sakuraba Japan (595) 3. Dave Menne USA (510) 4. Murilo "Ninja" Rua Brazil (449) 5. Matt Lindland USA (425) 6. Jose "Pele" Landi-Jons Brazil (308) 7. Paulo Fihlo Brazil (278) 8. Andrei Semenov Russia (205) 9. Renzo Gracie Brazil (130) 10. Ikuhisa Minowa Japan (64) Welterweight 1. Anderson Silva Brazil (641) 2. Hayato Sakurai Japan (562) 3. Matt Hughes USA (549) 4. Carlos Newton Canada (490) 5. Gil Castillo USA (360) 6. Frank Trigg USA (301) 7. Shonie Carter USA (294) 8. Tetsuji Kato Japan (196) 9. Kiuma Kunioku Japan (109) 10. Nathan Marquardt USA (62) Lightweight 1. Jens Pulver USA (648) 2. Takanori Gomi Japan (560) 3. B.J. Penn USA (549) 4. Din Thomas USA (430) 5. Kaoru Uno Japan (426) 6. Rumina Sato Japan (316) 7. D. Mishima Japan (224) 8. Marcio "Cromado" Barbosa Brazil (210) 9. Fabiano Iha Brazil (124) 10. Ryan Bow USA (78) Featherweight 1. Alexandre "Pequeno" Nogueira Brazil (650) 2. Tetsuo Katsuta Japan (578) 3. Katsuya Toita Japan (530) 4. Baret Yoshida USA (454) 5. Joao Roque Brazil (378) 6. Naoya Uematsu Japan (334) 7. Stephen Palling USA (254) 8. Hiroyuki Abe Japan (181) 9. Masahiro Oishi Japan (125) 10. Mamoru Japan (101)