Mayweather still says he’ll retire ... unless he doesn’t

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has adhered to the same story since his 2006 victory over Carlos Baldomir. He has one fight left: Saturday’s super-welterweight title bout against Oscar De La Hoya at the MGM Grand.

“I have nothing left to prove,” he said as recently as Tuesday. “I got enough money to live happy the rest of my life. You’ll see. My eyes don’t lie.”

A day later, Mayweather inserted a condition to his retirement-at-30 plan.

He said that if the De La Hoya fight was a classic, and there were calls for a rematch, he would consider it.

“As of now, I’m retiring,” he said.

De La Hoya said he wasn’t buying the retirement talk.

“I don’t think he’s prepared for it,” De La Hoya said. “He could announce it, but he’ll come back. You feel you can still do more, you’re not satisfied.”

Mayweather said his decision to return also would be based on how Saturday’s outcome is reported. “I’ll see how your articles look Saturday night,” he said.

Minutes earlier, Mayweather told a group of reporters that he doesn’t read stories about himself.

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What will De La Hoya do after this fight?

Like Mayweather, he has made references to retirement, warning, “It depends on how my body feels. In boxing, you can grow old overnight. You just never know.”

Yet, he also has said he envisions a victory followed by “a few” more fights.

Fittingly, Golden Boy Promotions will announce today a July 21 super-middleweight fight at Mandalay Bay that could feature De La Hoya’s most logical next opponent: Winky Wright.

Wright (51-3-1, 25 KOs), the former light-middleweight champion, will fight former unified middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins (47-4-1, 32 knockouts).

Richard Schaefer, chief executive of Golden Boy, said in addition to a possible future bout against Wright, De La Hoya would find attractive foes in Ricky Hatton of England, Antonio Margarito or the man who gave him his first loss, Felix Trinidad.

Trinidad will attend Saturday’s fight, said Schaefer, who added that he intends to discuss a rematch with Trinidad’s promoter Don King should De La Hoya opt to continue his career.

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Mayweather’s uncle and trainer Roger Mayweather looked calm, but then he was introduced to “say a few words” about the fight and went into a rambling diatribe targeting De La Hoya’s trainer, Freddie Roach.

Roach, a two-time trainer of the year victimized by boxing-induced Parkinson’s disease, was first referred to as “a punching bag” by Roger Mayweather, who went on to claim he could defeat the trainer in a fight even if he was struck “with polio,” labeling his opposing corner man “a club fighter.”

Mayweather, a former two-time world champion boxer, said Roach ducked him in their fighting days.

“I knew he couldn’t beat me,” Mayweather said. “It would’ve been a massacre, a holocaust.”

Roach kept his words brief, telling the crowd, “My guy is ready. Don’t be late to this one, it might not last too long.”

Schaefer said De La Hoya is leaning toward retaining Roach for future fights.

“He feels really comfortable with Freddie,” Schaefer said.

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Retired basketball legend Michael Jordan has added his name to the celebrity list for Saturday’s fight.

Jordan’s representatives told Schaefer that Jordan would be attending Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, then boarding a cross-country flight to take a ringside seat in time for the 8 p.m. first-round bell.

lance.pugmire@latimes.com