Floyd Mayweather gave credence to reports of a potential fight with Conor McGregor when he told FightHype.com on Saturday that a bout versus the UFC star is "possible."

Mayweather made his comments in Las Vegas before Canelo Alvarez's sixth-round knockout of Amir Khan. He was asked by the website about the talk that he might fight an MMA fighter.

"It's possible. It's possible. There was a name that was shot at me. But the rumors that y'all have been hearing [are] the rumors I started," Mayweather said in video posted by FightHype.com. "It may not be a rumor. Keep your fingers crossed. It may be a boxer versus an MMA fighter. So we just don't know."