Is That Really the Best Way to Distinguish These Fighters?

I was watching Affliction: Day of Reckoning and noticed several times during the fight, announcer Jimmy Smith had trouble describing Josh Barnett and Gilbert Yvel. He said "both fighters in black and red trunks, Yvel in the looser-fitting trunks."

Are we that politically correct that we can't say Barnett is the white guy, Yvel is the black guy?