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Skip Bayless begs Charles Barkley to take Shannon Sharpe’s place as his ‘dream debate partner’ because he wants to ‘annihilate’ TNT analyst.

“Charles Barkley would be my dream debate partner on Undisputed,” Bayless said on his eponymous podcast.

“Please, Charles, please come and please work with me, this ‘damn idiot.’ What a joy it would be to do battle every day with Charles Barkley live on television.

“I could semi-retire. I could mail it in. I could, dare I say, actually have a life and forget about prepping so furiously hard night after night after night for every day’s Undisputed.”