By Miguel Rivera

If Saul "Canelo" Alvarez defeats his countryman Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on May 6th, Golden Boy President Oscar De La Hoya does not expect the critics to be satisfied.

Canelo, who holds the WBO junior middleweight title, will move up to a catch-weight of 164.5-pounds to face Chavez Jr. on HBO Pay-Per-View.

The critics really began to target Canelo is 2016, after he backed away from a potential fight with IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin. 

Canelo was the WBC middleweight champion in early 2016. The sanctioning body ordered him to make a mandatory defense against Golovkin.

The Mexican fighter was allowed to take make a voluntary, which came last May against Amir Khan at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. After knocking Khan out in six rounds, Canelo invited Golovkin to the ring and then accepted GGG's challenge for a fall fight.

That scenario practically fell apart a few days later when Canelo vacated the WBC title. The sanctioning body would then appoint Golovkin as their middleweight champion.

Even after the title situation, the two sides continued to hold discussions, but then Canelo announced that he was dropping back to junior middleweight to challenge WBO champion Liam Smith, who was untested and unknown in the United States and Mexico.

When the fight with Chavez was announced, the critics quickly attacked. Because during the bulk of the Canelo-Golovkin discussions, Canelo had claimed that he wasn't a "true middleweight" and stood firm on his demand for Golovkin to drop down to a catch-weight of 155-pounds. Now Canelo is moving up nearly five pounds beyond the middleweight limit.

A lot of critics are also focused on Chavez, who has a long history of struggling to make weight - and some observers fear that he will be physically depleted on the night of the fight.

"We are aware that overcoming Chavez will not end the criticism that we are receiving. We know that the critics will always exist, because without criticism it's as if you are doing something wrong. For example, I have based my career on the number of critics I have. If there are a lot of  them, it's because I must be doing something right," De La Hoya told Erika Montoya.