By Chris Williams: An often overlooked point about Amir Khan’s fight with WBA light welterweight champion Andriy Kotelnik (31-2-1, 13 KOs) is what precisely will the 22-year-old Khan do should he beat Kotelnik and capture his WBA title.

Up until now, Khan has shown himself to have a glass chin and has been dropped by both strong and weak punchers alike, looking vulnerable even against mediocre fighters if they’re able to connect to his brittle chin.

Now I have a good feeling that Khan will be able to beat Kotelnik in their June 27th bout at the O2 Arena, in Greenwich, London. Kotelnik has little power and likes to throw a lot of jabs and weak single shots. He’s by no means a power puncher, and this obviously is something that attracted Khan and his management to go after this fight.

I guess you call it cherry-picking for an opponent. However, if Khan is able to beat Kotelnik, I’m wondering what Amir plans on doing with his belt. Strangely enough, I can see Khan pulling a Riddick Bowe and throwing the WBA belt in the garbage rather than having to defend it against dangerous punchers like Victor Ortiz, Marcus Maidana and Nate Campbell.

Those are all fighters with a lot of knockout power, and I don’t have a lot of confidence that Khan would be able to beat any of them even with the great Freddie Roach coming up with the best laid plans to beat them.

Those aren’t the types of fighters that would be foiled with a pesky right or left hook from Khan, so if that’s Roach’s scheme to beat those fighters than he’s going to need to go back to the drawing board and come up with something much better than that to get those guys off Khan.

Offensively, I doubt there is a tactic that Khan can fall back on that would work against them. I guess Khan could jab a lot, and maybe run like mad all around the ring trying to keep from getting rocked. But I swear to you, if Khan tries a Manny Pacquiao move by throwing hooks, Amir will get knocked out for sure. And with the knockout, Roach’s new ‘genius’ tag will take a major hit in the process.

Roach is a genius when it comes to Pacquiao, because he does it all with his athletic ability and talent. Roach won’t be able to duplicate the same results with Khan no matter what strategy that Freddie can come up with. I think running is about all Khan can do, but that won’t win him the fight.

This is why I wonder if Amir will ever choose to defend the title. Of all the champions in the lightweight and light welterweight division, Khan and his team chose the weakest of the lot in picking out Kotelnik. It wasn’t something that exactly endeared Khan to his fans, because they could see what I could see.

Khan was looking to get an easy title. He’s got it, but if he wins the belt, everything immediately will get much more difficult for Khan. Khan has put off facing big punchers in his four year career, facing only one – Breidis Prescott – and getting knocked out by him.

However, once Khan gets the WBA title, Khan can no longer be shielded from the big punchers. Sure, Khan can make his non-mandatory title defenses as easy as possible like most fighters typically do, but when it comes to his mandatory title defenses, Khan will be in big trouble.