Floyd Mayweather claims that he could have knocked out Conor McGregor whenever he pleased in their superfight. The year-old came out of retirement to beat the UFC superstar in ten rounds in a money-spinning dream fight in Las Vegas.

McGregor in his first pro-boxing match started off the fight brightly, winning a couple of the early rounds before he started to fatigue badly.

He was then picked apart by Mayweather who won via tenth round TKO, barely breaking a sweat in the process.

Mayweather says he decided to keep the match competitive however, so that there could potentially be a lucrative rematch. But my thing is this, if I would've did that, then it wouldn't be probably a part two.

Following the fight Mayweather announced his retirement, before later returning to beat kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa in an exhibition bout. Mayweather says he took it easy on McGregor so that there could potentially be a rematch.

In , Mayweather posted on his social media that he was 'coming out of retirement in ' to work with UFC boss Dana White. However, it is not known in what capacity he would be fighting whether it is boxing or MMA.

Since then he has beat Donald Cerrone and is set to fight Dustin Poirier next month, in a rematch of their clash which McGregor won. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.

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Conor McGregor: As it happened". The Notorious One started strong, winning some of the opening rounds. However, he soon gassed out, giving Floyd Mayweather the chance to take over and finish him with a KO in the tenth round.

Recently, while talking about the fight, Floyd Mayweather revealed that he could have ended the match much earlier if he had wanted to.

While talking to Drink Champs on Revolt TV, the fighter stated that he kept on fighting till the tenth round because he wanted to keep the possibility of a future rematch alive.