LAS VEGAS — Floyd Mayweather is counting down the final few fights of his career and Manny Pacquiao no longer has any consideration on that list.

In his most striking statements condemning any possibility of a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight to date, the 36-year-old Grand Rapids native said his Filipino rival "had a chance to make the fight in the past, and basically, that's the best place I'd like to leave it."

Mayweather recently told Yahoo! Sports that he only would consider fighting Pacquiao if the latter agreed to fight under the Mayweather Promotions banner in the future.

He told MLive even that wouldn't be enough.

"That's probably how I was feeling at that particular time," Mayweather said. "I'm only human. Floyd Mayweather does contradict himself. I'm only human. I'm not perfect. I mean, I think we all do.

"How are things today? He's not going to get a chance to fight me. I was feeling that way weeks ago. Now, I'm feeling like I wouldn't even give him a chance. He had a chance, he blew it, so that's what it is."

Mayweather-Pacquiao talks sputtered almost from the time they began in December 2009, went through failed mediation a month later, and never seriously were revisited by either side.

Those talks didn't produce a fight, but did produce a lawsuit by Pacquiao accusing Mayweather and others of defamation by way of unfounded steroid accusations against him.

The negotiating stalemate highlighted the tender feelings between Mayweather and his former promoter, Bob Arum, who promotes Pacquiao, and deepened the division between Arum and Mayweather's promotional partner Golden Boy Promotions.

"He (Pacquiao) handled his career like he handled his career and I handled my career like I handled my career," Mayweather said, a veiled reference to Arum, with whom he split in 2006.

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