Dana White: Mayweather Has Still Never Called To Face McGregor

By Edward Chaykovsky

According to UFC President Dana White, there has still been zero contact from former five division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26KOs) - with respect to a potential a fantasy fight with UFC featherweight world champion Conor McGregor.

On Sunday, Mayweather circulated an unofficial fight poster through the social networks, plugging away to create a false hype for a fight that very few, if any, believe will ever happen.

Mayweather retired from the sport last September after winning a twelve round unanimous decision over Andre Berto at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. In recent interviews, Mayweather has discussed the possibility of a ring return in the fall - and named McGregor as the only opponent he would actually consider for a comeback.

White makes it very clear that a Mayweather-McGregor fight is impossible to make without the involvement of the UFC. White has no idea what Mayweather is doing, and whether he is actually serious about facing McGregor. He wants to make it known that nobody from Mayweather's camp has ever reached out to the UFC to discuss the idea of doing an event with McGregor. 

"I got people calling me and saying that Floyd put up a poster that they're fighting in September, and I don't care what Floyd says. There is only way that this fight is happening and that's through me. He has to call me. Me and Floyd haven't talked," White told The Herd.

"The last time I saw Floyd was at the Celtics-Lakers game, Kobe's last game against the Celtics. I was there, he was there. We talked, said what's up and whatever, but we didn't talk about fighting Conor McGregor."

"I haven't talked to Mayweather once. If you look at how long it took to get the Pacquiao fight done and that's the same sport. Now you want to put [two guys from two different sports]."

"I don't know what his angle is on this thing with Conor McGregor, but he's not fighting Conor McGregor without calling me. It's not going to happen."