By William Mackay: John Breen, the trainer for unbeaten EBU light welterweight champion Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) doesn’t think that WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) has a weak chin, but he does think that Khan’s temple areas are weak. Breen has noticed that when Khan gets hit in the temple areas of his head, he sometimes gets badly hurt.

This was the case in Khan’s knockout loss to Breidis Prescott in 2008, and in the 10th round of his fight with Marcos Maidana last December. Khan was badly staggered in that fight from a hard right hand that connected to the temple area of Khan and had him jelly-legged for the remainder of the fight.

In an article at Irish-boxing.com, Breen said “I can see chinks in Amir’s style, things that will enable Paul McCloskey to take him apart. People are saying that Amir has proved he hasn’t got a glas chin. I agree with that. He hasn’t a glass chin, but his temples are not too solid. Anytime he has been put down he has been caught flush around the temples. The punches Paul McCloskey will throw are the ones that will cause Amir problems and if Paul catches him right, he can hurt and stop Amir.”

Breen has a point. Khan’s chin isn’t glass. It’s his temple that’s made of glass. But does the feather-fisted McCloskey have the power to shatter Khan’s glass temple? I don’t know that he does. Khan did such a great job of cherry picking in this fight that he really doesn’t have anything to worry about this fight because McCloskey probably can’t punch his way out of a wet paper bag.