Jimmy Smith is making the jump from analyst to play-by-play voice – but it won’t be in MMA. According to a report from Wrestling Observer , Smith will debut with the WWE Raw announcing team Monday alongside Matthew Polinsky (as ring name “Corey Graves”) and Bryan Kelly (as ring name (“Byron Saxton”). Smith has been a recent panelist on the WWE’s NXT broadcasts. He’ll take over a role vacated by Adnan Virk, a former ESPN broadcaster who had been in the spot for less than two months. Related Former UFC, Bellator commentator Jimmy Smith gets weekday SiriusXM show Jimmy Smith says he turned down ONE Championship job because of pit bull laws in Singapore UFC declines to renew contract of longtime commentator Jimmy Smith Smith, a former MMA fighter, was Bellator’s primary broadcast analyst from 2010-2017.
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Report: Former Bellator, UFC analyst Jimmy Smith lands WWE play-by-play gig – MMA Junkie