‘Money-getting motherf----r’ Mayweather says he could make 1 billion dollars in UFC

Floyd Mayweather: “I can do a three or four fight deal in the Octagon and make a billion dollars”.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. teased Conor McGregor in the lead-up to their blockbuster boxing match on Aug. 26 that he would rematch the Irishman in the Octagon, but no one actually took him seriously.

Well, just four months after finishing McGregor in the boxing ring and announcing his official retirement, ‘Money’ has teased at making a ‘three or four fight deal’ with the UFC for one billion dollars.

"You already know I'm a money-getting motherf**ker,” Mayweather said in a live video stream on Tuesday (h/t Ryan Harkness of MMA Mania). “I'm Money May. They just called me not too long ago and asked me to come back. I can come right back to the UFC. If I want, I can go, I can come right back to the UFC, I can go fight in the Octagon. I can do a three or four fight deal in the Octagon and make a billion dollars. Remember, I'm Floyd 'Money' Mayweather, and you motherf**kers love me, and I love you motherf**kers."

It’s still hard to take Mayweather seriously, given that the pound-for-pound great is one of the most risk-averse fighters in the world and, by signing with the UFC would be putting his entire reputation on the line. Mayweather has never competed in mixed martial arts and would, in all likelihood, get thrashed in his UFC debut. The last high-profile boxer to step foot in the Octagon was former three-weight world champion James Toney, who was submitted by UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture in the first round.

Although Mayweather seems interested in a stint in MMA, the undefeated, 50-0 boxer referred to it as a ‘barbarian sport’.

“I’m so tough at what I do, they had to go to a whole ‘nother barbarian sport to go get a motherfucker that would try to fuck with me. And you already know what I did with that. Lights out, party’s over, you can kiss the babies. It’s bankroll, you know, all I do is dress, flex and progress. And you already know I went from the streets to the executive suites,” he said, per BJPenn.com’s Tom Taylor.

Mayweather’s former opponent, McGregor, is open to a career in boxing and claimed that fighters must now ‘lobby’ for fights with him.