By William Mackay: WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) has noticed a number of flaws in WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan’s game that he plans on exploiting in July, if Khan can get by his next opponent Paul McCloskey next month on April 16th.

Speaking to eastsideboxing.com, Bradley said “He [Khan] couldn’t even stop [Marcos] Maidana’s uppercut and Maidana kept landing all night long. I’m way quicker.”

Bradley is right. Khan was getting tagged all night long by Maidana’s uppercuts, especially after Maidana had Khan hurt. Khan may have done a great job avoiding some of Maidan’s shots by running, holding and leaning backwards, but the uppercut was always there for Maidana in that fight.

“Amir can’t adjust,” says Bradley. The reason why Khan can’t make adjustments is because he’s so heavily invested in the handful of things that his trainer Freddie Roach has taught him since he took over as his trainer in 2009.

Khan has learned certain things really well, like the old grab behind the neck to pull an opponent towards him, the running and the occasional shove to get a shorter opponent back on the outside. But with all that, Khan is still going to have some flaws and his lack of defense against an uppercut is just one of them. Another flaw that Bradley failed to mention is the way that Khan slaps with his punches when he throws flurries.

Most of the shots miss and the ones that do land are slaps. A good fighter will keep his guard up like Maidana did and then fire down the middle to tag Khan mid slap. That’s how you take away his slapping punches.