The reason I pointed out that Corey Graves’ real name — and it says so in the [New York Post] article — is Matthew Polinsky. I am the only commentator on Monday Night Raw who’s using his real name. I hate to break it to you, Byron Saxton’s real name is not Byron Saxton. Corey Graves’ real name is not Corey Graves. Me, Jimmy Smith, the guy sitting in the middle is the only one using his real name. What does that tell you? I’m the only one who doesn’t have a character, period. The only one, that’s it. Corey, to my right, is a heel. He is supposed to be an a-hole. He’s supposed to be sarcastic and he’s supposed to break my balls all the time, he’s supposed to jump down my throat, he’s supposed to get distracted by not just Carmella who’s whole shtick is that she’s super duper beautiful. He did the same thing with Eva Marie, who’s whole shtick is that she’s super duper beautiful. To my left, Byron Saxton is a face, he’s a good guy and part of the shtick if you notice on Monday Night Raw, Corey goes off about how gorgeous Carmella is and, ‘She’s the greatest thing ever’ and we are like, ‘Corey! Get back to the match. You’re an idiot, focus.’ We’re supposed to do that. He is playing a character and Byron Saxton is playing a character and when they’re making comments about someone’s attractiveness or beauty, the fact that I’m the straight-man, I don’t have a character, I’m kind of in the middle and I say, ‘Corey, let’s get back to the actual match’ or whatever we say. We are part of the show, we are part of the entertainment. To even call it commentary, it’s not inaccurate, but it’s not 100 percent accurate either. I’m not doing commentary when I do WWE like I do commentary for fight sports. Boxing and MMA, it’s totally different.
