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Canelo Alvarez was diagnosed Monday with a fracture in his right thumb and will not fight again this year, Golden Boy Promotions announced.Alvarez, the lineal middleweight world champion, moved down to the junior middleweight division and stopped Englands Liam Smith in the ninth round to win a 154-pound world title Saturday night before 51,240 fans at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, in Arlington, Texas.Golden Boy spokesman Stefan Friedman said Alvarez visited hand specialist Dr. Pedro Jaime Lomeli in his hometown of Guadalajara, Mexico. After undergoing X-rays and a CT scan, Alvarez was diagnosed with an avulsion fracture of the right thumb, Friedman said.Canelo does not need surgery, and the prognosis is excellent, Friedman said. Canelos hand will be immobilized for the next six weeks, and he will be unable to fight again in 2016.Alvarez said after the fight that he hurt his right thumb in the second round, but he still produced three knockdowns, including one with his right hand.The 26-year-old Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) knocked Smith (23-1-1, 13 KOs) down with a right hand to the side of the head in the seventh round, with a left hook to the body in the eighth round and with a fight-ending left hook to the body in the ninth round that sent Smith to the mat in agony, prompting referee Luis Pabon to wave off the fight without a count at 2 minutes, 28 seconds.Alvarez came to the postfight news conference with his right hand wrapped in a bandage but said he did not think it was broken. He said that when he suffered the injury he relied more on his left hand than he had planned to.After I got hurt, I probably used my left hand a little more and went to the body a little bit more, but [going to the body] was part of the game plan, Alvarez said. Ive always said you have to be prepared for anything in that ring, and thats what I was. I was prepared for anything.Alvarez was due to return on Dec. 10 for a live HBO fight -- not a pay-per-view bout, which Saturdays fight was -- against an opponent to be determined. That is now off because of the thumb fracture.Despite the change to Alvarezs schedule, Friedman said it does not alter the tentative plans for an eventual showdown between Alvarez and unified middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin -- boxings biggest fight -- in September 2017.Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs), who retained his title by fifth-round knockout of Kell Brook on Sept. 10 in London, is due to fight Nov. 26 against an opponent to be determined. Alvarez was supposed to go Dec. 10, and then each was supposed to fight in the first half of 2017 before the megafight next fall. Now Alvarezs next fight will be pushed into early 2017, Friedman said.This does nothing to Canelos plans to move up [to 160 pounds] and take on the best in the middleweight division next year, Friedman said. Odell Beckham Jr Jersey . Vettel, who has already clinched his fourth straight F1 title, enters the finale with a chance to equal Michael Schumachers 13 victories in a year and match the record of nine consecutive wins by Alberto Ascari in the 1952 and 1953 seasons. Darius Slayton Giants Jersey . -- Jakob Silfverberg is making himself right at home with the Anaheim Ducks, scoring four goals in his first four games. http://www.giantsrookiestore.com/Giants-Julian-Love-Jersey/ . Ouellette, from Montreal, already has three Olympic gold medals since joining the team in 1999. Phil Simms Youth Jersey . 24 Baylor in a Big 12 clash between teams trending in opposite directions. Andrew Wiggins made 10-of-12 from the foul line and scored 17 for Kansas (14-4, 5-0 Big 12), which capped a stretch of four straight games against ranked opponents unscathed. Oshane Ximines Womens Jersey . The Nashville Predators were glad their captain was still on their side. Weber had a goal and two assists, and Roman Josi scored the shootout winner to lift the Predators to a 4-3 win over the Flyers on Thursday night.GSTAAD, Switzerland -- Mikhail Youzhny of Russia won his first Swiss Open title on Sunday at his eighth attempt, beating Robin Haase of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-4. Sixth-seeded Youzhny broke unseeded Haases service once in each set to clinch his ninth career title, and third on clay courts. A former top-10 player now ranked No.dddddddddddd 33, the 31-year-old Youzhny had never previously reached the final at Gstaad in seven visits dating back to 2002. Youzhny improved his record to 5-0 against the 57th-ranked Dutchman. "I never beat you and it kind of hurts, but you deserved it," Haase said in an on-court interview. ' ' '