Tate upsets Rousey in 'EA Sports UFC' cover vote; second-round voting underway

Miesha Tate

Sound the upset alarms; Miesha Tate has defeated bitter rival Ronda Rousey.

Fortunately for Rousey, the UFC’s reigning women’s bantamweight champion, the loss didn’t take place inside a real UFC octagon, but rather a virtual one.

Over the past week, EA Sports and the UFC have teamed up for the “EA Sports UFC” cover vote, a contest allowing fans to determine who will join light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones on the cover of the new UFC video game, which is set for release in 2014.

Sixteen male and female fighters entered a bracket to determine whose fan base would vote them onto the video game cover, and the results produced a bag of mixed results.

In the biggest upset of the first round, Tate edged out Rousey in an upset.

According to the official UFC Twitter account, Rousey was ahead in voting with just one hour remaining, only for “Cupcake” to swoop in and steal the victory.

The remaining results were somewhat less surprising as lightweight titleholder Anthony Pettis defeated fellow champion Demetrious Johnson, Johny Hendricks topped Dominick Cruz, and Michael Bisping narrowly defeated Urijah Faber.

On the other side of the bracket, Georges St-Pierre received more votes than Chris Weidman, Alexander Gustafsson beat Daniel Cormier, Chael Sonnen got another one over on Brazil by defeating Junior dos Santos, and featherweight titleholder Jose Aldo took down ex-lightweight champ Benson Henderson.

The second round of vote commenced the moment the first round came to a conclusion, and the final round of eight provides some interesting matchups:

• St-Pierre vs. Hendricks
• Pettis vs. Aldo
• Sonnen vs. Bisping
• Gustafsson vs. Tate

Fans can cast their second round votes for at http://www.ufc.com/covervote.

The next round of voting ends Nov. 17.