When Undisputed comes back on FS1 until late August, it may not be just one personality who replaces the departed Shannon Sharpe to debate Skip Bayless every day.
It’s shaping up to be a rotation of sorts — maybe a starting five? Maybe more than that? — which might change things up for the sports debate show, giving a few different viewpoints and styles for viewers to take in.
There are reports about who could be in that rotation, so we’ve decided to round up who’s been talked about as the show takes one more step forward toward coming back.
Let’s run through who’s been reported:
1
Richard Sherman
The former Legion of Boom member is reportedly in. From the New York Post:
Richard Sherman is joining FS1 to spar with Skip Bayless on “Undisputed” in the wake of Shannon Sharpe’s departure from the program, The Post has learned.
Sherman will go at it with Bayless on around 50-100 shows per year, mostly during football season.
He will remain on Amazon Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football” studio show.
2
Lil Wayne
According to Skip Bayless, he and Lil Wayne will duke it out on Fox Sports 1’s Undisputed once a week when the show returns from hiatus on August 28. During the host’s latest episode of his podcast, the Skip Bayless Show, he shared the news by saying, “Wayne has agreed every Friday going forward to do a segment with me live. He might not always be in the studio, depending on his schedule. But he’s going to be joining me every Friday.”
He continued, “As for the segment — I don’t know. 12 or 15 minutes? If he’s hot or rolling, maybe we’ll keep him on for a couple of segments if he has the time. That you can look forward to, he is so deep when it comes to sports. He doesn’t yell or scream, but he gets emotional.”
3
Rachel Nichols
Sports Business Journal has more:
Rachel Nichols will join FS1 as a regular panelist on the Skip Bayless show “Undisputed,” sources told SBJ. The former ESPN analyst will join former NFL star Richard Sherman and rap star Lil Wayne as panelists on the show starting Aug. 28.
4
Michael Irvin
From that same SBJ report:
Executives overseeing the show currently are deciding between whether to have former NFL stars Michael Irvin or Keyshawn Johnson join the cast of rotating analysts. That decision could come as early as today, sources said.
5
Keyshawn Johnson
See above.
