Shannon Sharpe explained that Skip Bayless was very quiet and private before and after going live on 'Undisputed.'

Shannon Sharpe is opening up about his breakup with Skip Bayless. Back in June, Sharpe shocked the sports media world when he announced that he was taking

NFL great-turned-media personality Shannon Sharpe kept it real about Skip Bayless disrespecting him on Undisputed.

Stephen A. Smith says his new two-days-a-week partner Shannon Sharpe didn’t leave FS1’s “Undisputed” program “over his own volition.” Smith, the personality which drives ESPN’s “First Take,” brought up the matter on “The Joe Budden Podcast” “I’m telling you he was pushed out,

In an interview on The Stephen A. Smith Show, Shannon Sharpe says that he didn't speak with Skip Bayless much off camera on Undisputed.

Sharpe joins Stephen A. Smith on Mondays and Tuesday every week, averaging 671,500 viewers over the two-day period. In comparison, Sharpe’s former show, FS1’s ‘Undisputed’, averaged 151,500 viewers during the same two-day period.

For nearly a month, new twice-weekly First Take co-host Sharpe has been calling Smith “Skip,” after his former co-host Skip Bayless. Appearing on The Joe Budden Podcast, Steven A. felt compelled to clear the air after Budden saw the gaff as a slight, expressing discomfort that Sharpe would “go after you so soon."

Shannon Sharpe has opened up on the on-air argument with Skip Bayless that triggered his sudden departure from FOX Sports and the show Undisputed.