Mayweather refutes reports he's in talks with UFC

Floyd Mayweather remains happily retired.

In response to UFC president Dana White's recent claims he'd entered talks with the promotion for a potential foray into mixed martial arts, the decorated boxer told FightHype on Wednesday a career in four-ounce gloves isn't currently on the docket.

"I never said I was going to fight in the UFC. I didn't say that," Mayweather stated. "I said if I wanted to and what I could do. I'm not going to do it, though."

Mayweather had publicly floated the possibility of competing in the cage before and after he took on UFC lightweight champ Conor McGregor in the ring this past August, but as he explained, he'd merely been mapping out a hypothetical path to a 10-figure haul.

"That's not what I said. Exactly what I said is this, if I made a billion dollars before, I could do it again. If I chose to get in the UFC and fight three fights or fight four fights and then fight Conor McGregor, I could make a billion dollars, which I can. I can do it in three fights or even four fights, I could make a billion dollars if I choose to get into the Octagon and fight."

The 40-year-old maintained his 10th-round TKO of McGregor would mark his final fight, one that generated a buyrate of 4.3 million pay-per-views and lined his coffers after multiple reports of longstanding tax issues had surfaced. While Mayweather didn't appear particularly high on entering the ring again, he was the first to acknowledge possibilities would abound should he change his tune and get off the couch.

"We just don't know what the future holds for Floyd Mayweather. I don't look forward to getting back in a boxing ring. That's what I don't look forward to doing. I'm just saying I could - I'm not doing it - but I'm saying what I could do to make a billion dollars quick if I wanted to do that. That's what I was saying."

McGregor soon took to Twitter in a presumed response to the development:

- With h/t to MMAWeekly