Never take anything Dana White says at face value.
This is the same person who went on ESPN during an event and called someone a liar for saying Brock Lesnar was coming back to UFC and 10 minutes later ran a promo video at the event saying Brock Lesnar was coming back to UFC.
Here is what he had to say about Mayweather-Khabib.
“We went over there, we boxed him,” White said. “If he wants to do it again, he has to come to the UFC. I don’t think it’s realistic at all, but I didn’t think the [McGregor] boxing match was either. So, we’ll see.
“I actually had a meeting yesterday in Los Angeles about this,” White said. “I don’t want to say anything that makes it sound like, ‘Oh wow, this could happen.’ But we had talks yesterday.”
“There’s a reason Floyd Mayweather wants to fight my guys: There’s big money there for him. Obviously, there’s big money there for us, but I’m not into making those kind of fights. If Floyd wants to come over here — he says he’s been wrestling and doing this or that — if he wants to come over and fight in the UFC, he’s more than welcome.”
BSO can exclusively report that Mayweather isn’t going to fight in UFC, if it happens it is 100% going to be a boxing match. We can also report that Khabib is interested because he will make more money fighting Mayweather than anyone else in UFC. Mayweather is interested because it is another easy $100 million payday.
We have been told if Khabib gets off with a six months Vegas suspension, which would be backdated, it is possible that Mayweather will try to fight him in the Spring.
Still early negotiations, but there have been good talks so far.