Floyd Mayweather quickly shuts down Dana White’s talk of UFC deal: 'I’m not doing it’

It only took just hours for Floyd Mayweather to completely reject UFC President Dana White’s claim that he could compete in an MMA fight.

White said earlier Wednesday that the UFC is talking to Mayweather (50-0 boxing) about crossing over to the octagon. The comments were immediately met with skepticism, but the UFC boss appeared certain it was something that was a “realistic possibility.”

Mere hours later, Mayweather, who spurred momentum behind the topic earlier this week when he stated he could make at least $1 billion dollars with a few UFC fights, clarified his original comments while shutting down everything White had to say.

“People said, ‘Floyd said, Oh, he’ll be fighting in the UFC for a billion dollars’ – that’s not what I said,” Mayweather told FightHype.com. “What I said was this: I made a billion dollars. If I made a billion dollars before, I’ll do it again. If I choose to get in the UFC and fight for the UFC, or fight three fights or four fights and then fight Conor McGregor, I could make a billion dollars, which I can. I could do it in three fights or even four fights. I could make a billion dollars.

“If I choose to get in the octagon and fight – fight three fights, three or four fights, and then fight Conor McGregor in the octagon. We just don’t know what the future holds for Floyd Mayweather, and I don’t look forward to getting back in the boxing ring. That’s what I don’t look forward to doing. So, I’m just saying, I could (make a billion in the UFC). I’m not doing it. But I’m saying, what I could do is make a billion dollars quick if I wanted to do that. That’s what I was saying.”

Mayweather is one of the biggest stars in combat sports history. He’s participated in the three highest selling pay-per-view matches in boxing history, including an August bout with UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor (21-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC), which sold 4.3 million units in North America, second most all time.

McGregor said both before and after succumbing to a 10th-round TKO loss against Mayweather that he would like to rematch “Money” under the UFC banner. Mayweather has made his lack of interest clear all along the way, which is partially why White’s comments were met with a unanimous raising-of-the-eyebrow.

The 40-year-old Mayweather said he’s not upset with White’s comments, because it’s beneficial to keep his name in the media. However, Mayweather once again made it clear a UFC fight is not in the cards.

“I never said I was going to fight in the UFC,” Mayweather said. “I didn’t say that. I just said if I wanted to and what I could do. ‘Would’ and ‘could’ do isn’t the same thing. I’m not going to do it, though.”

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