Shaq Vs. is an American reality television show starring American basketball star Shaquille O'Neal. It will begin airing on ABC August 18, 2009.
Shaquille O'Neal will take on numerous top athletes from other sports in their own games, such as Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in football, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, tennis pro Serena Williams, and beach volleyball Olympians Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh. O'Neal also plans to book Tour de France cyclist Lance Armstrong for this show.
Each episode is to include preliminary challenges, banter from news conferences, interaction with needy kids, and O'Neal and his rival negotiating a handicap. The laughs come from "trash talking," but "when it comes to competing, there is no joking," O'Neal says.
The show will be produced for ABC by Dick Clark productions and Media Rights Capital.