Joseph Carmine Bonsignore (born July 14, 1971)[1][2] better known by his ring name Joey Styles, is an American former professional wrestling commentator.

Before working for WWE, Styles was a full-time professional in the field of print advertising sales in New York City.

Bonsignore chose to attend Hofstra University over other schools because they had a strong communications program with their own television studio and station, and because the Long Island, New York campus was close to Pro Wrestling Illustrated's offices.

That internship got him backstage at a World Championship Wrestling show where he first met Paul Heyman, his future employer.

Styles was the sole host of ECW Hardcore TV and spent the early portion of the run as the promotion's only announcer.

Providing both play-by-play and color commentary during television and pay-per-view broadcasts, Styles added his wrestling knowledge, enthusiasm, and comedic timing to the program.

At Barely Legal, he became the first and only wrestling announcer in history to call a live pay-per-view event solo.

[7] Later on in the promotion, he was joined on commentary by Rick Rude on Hardcore TV, Joel Gertner for ECW on TNN, and later Cyrus for pay-per-views.

The sold-out event featured former ECW stars Shane Douglas, The Sandman, Sabu, Terry Funk, Raven, The Blue Meanie, Mikey Whipwreck, Jerry Lynn, New Jack, 2 Cold Scorpio and more.

On December 4, 2005, it was confirmed by WWE.com that Joey signed a five-year contract to be the official play-by-play commentator for Raw.

The reason for Styles not calling the event is that Vince McMahon disliked pure play-by-play announcing and wanted a "storyteller" instead.

On the May 1, 2006 edition of Raw, Styles announced that he was quitting by delivering a worked shoot promo, in which he bashed Vince McMahon, WWE, sports entertainment, and the fact that people "buy into this crap".

He stated repeatedly that he had retired from announcing full-time and was thrilled to continue to work for WWE as Director of Digital Media Content.

On August 8, 2016, it was reported that Styles was released from WWE and returned to advertising sales in New York City.

[10] After his release from WWE, Styles went on record as saying he wanted "to be the Voice of the Indies" while still working full-time in advertising sales.