Top 10 for October, 2002   Heavyweight 1. Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira Brazil (650) 2. Josh Barnett USA (578) 3. Ricco Rodriguez USA (509) 4. Heath Herring USA (478) 5. Randy Couture USA (376) 6. Tom Erikson USA (337) 7. Pedro Rizzo Brazil (262) 8. Bob Sapp USA (225) 9. Emelianenko Fedor USA (138) 10. Don Frye USA (62) Light Heavyweight 1. Vanderlei Silva Brazil (562) 2. Chuck Liddell USA (554) 3. Tito Ortiz USA (493) 4. Ricardo Arona Brazil (449) 5. Murilo "Ninja" Rua Brazil (431) 6. Mirko "CroCop" Filipovic Croatia (332) 7. Mario Sperry Brazil (262) 8. Vitor Belfort Brazil (196) 9. Dan Henderson USA (136) 10. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson USA (67) Middleweight 1. Murilo Bustamante Brazil (650) 2. Anderson Silva Brazil (559) 3. Matt Lindland USA (541) 4. Kazushi Sakuraba Japan (431) 5. Paulo Filho Brazil (425) 6. Phil Baroni USA (332) 7. Ivan Salaverry USA (265) 8. Dave Menne USA (194) 9. Alex Steibling USA (102) 10. Jose "Pele" Landi-Jons Brazil (61) Welterweight 1. Matt Hughes USA (650) 2. Carlos Newton Canada (582) 3. Hayato Sakurai Japan (512) 4. Gil Castillo USA (434) 5. Frank Trigg USA (426) 6. Tetsuji Kato Japan (319) 7. Sean Sherk USA (268) 8. Nathan Marquardt USA (165) 9. Kiuma Kunioku Japan (161) 10. Robbie Lawler USA (67) Lightweight 1. Jens Pulver USA (648) 2. Takanori Gomi Japan (578) 3. B.J. Penn USA (524) 4. Kaoru Uno Japan (454) 5. Din Thomas USA (394) 6. D. Mishima Japan (326) 7. Javier Vasquez USA (264) 8. Rumina Sato Japan (194) 9. Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro Brazil (132) 10. Ryan Bow USA (62) Featherweight 1. Alexandre "Pequeno" Nogueira Brazil (631) 2. Joao Roque Brazil (570) 3. Stephen Palling USA (519) 4. Hiroyuki Abe Japan (493) 5. Tetsuo Katsuta Japan (367) 6. Naoya Uematsu Japan (302) 7. Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto Japan (295) 8. Katsuya Toita Japan (191) 9. Jeff Curran USA (116) 10. Baret Yoshida USA (96)