Floyd Mayweather claims he was paid $1million just to take a phone call and open negotiations with KSI’s brother Deji.

‘TBE’ retired from professional boxing in 2017 with an unblemished 50-0 record but has continued competing in exhibition bouts deep into his forties.

In his fifth outing in the crossover boxing sphere, he took on YouTube star Deji in Dubai under one-and-done promoter Global Titans.

At first, Mayweather wasn’t entirely convinced by the legitimacy of the newly formed company.

But they showed their financial resolve by paying him an extortionate fee just to pick up the phone.

“They reached out to me and said ‘Floyd, we’d like you in Dubai again’, Mayweather told Fight Hype.

“The other one was supposed to be in Dubai and it got moved to Abu Dhabi, but they want me back in the UAE.

“I said ‘Let’s make it happen,’ but I also told them I won’t get on the phone unless I know the numbers, then we can talk.

“They said, ‘We’ll get you on the phone’ and they wired me $1m. So I got on the phone ASAP and said ‘What’s going on?’

“They said they wanted me to do [an exhibition] with a YouTuber, I said, ‘Yo, let’s make it happen’.

“We’re doing these exhibitions and it doesn’t matter what happens, I can get knocked out and I’m still 50-0!

“I did what I had to do when it really counted, it don’t count now.”