No. 11 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
Sports commentator, The Skip Bayless Show
Skip Bayless is a sports commentator who built two of television's best-known debate shows, First Take on ESPN and Undisputed on FS1.
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Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Skip Bayless's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
Spent more than a decade arguing live opposite one rival every weekday, first Stephen A. Smith on First Take, then Shannon Sharpe on Undisputed.
Bayless co-hosted First Take with Stephen A. Smith until June 2016, then launched Skip and Shannon: Undisputed with Shannon Sharpe on FS1 that September.
He led Undisputed for eight years before leaving in August 2024, and now hosts The Skip Bayless Show.
On the record
2025
March 2025
Broadcast debate
Against Stephen A. Smith · ESPN First Take
A decade after their last debate, Smith and Bayless met again on First Take. Smith later said he had never lost a debate to Bayless; Bayless has disputed his account of how the show was built.
2025
April 13, 2025
One against many
Against 25 NBA/NFL Fans · Jubilee, Surrounded
Skip Bayless took the one-against-many chair on Jubilee's Surrounded, facing challengers one at a time while the room could vote each one out of the seat.
2023
2016 to 2023
Broadcast debate
Against Shannon Sharpe · FS1
Seven years of daily argument with the Hall of Fame tight end. Sharpe left in June 2023 after a rift over Bayless's comments on Damar Hamlin's collapse.
2016
2012 to 2016
Broadcast debate
Against Stephen A. Smith · ESPN First Take
Bayless pushed ESPN to make Smith his full-time debate partner, and their daily clashes defined First Take until Bayless left for FS1 in 2016.
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