NEW YORK — Daniel Jacobs is a fellow New York native, so his rooting interest wasn’t a surprise.

This past weekend, at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens hosted by The Ring, Jacobs might’ve been the loudest person in the room as he cheered on Edgar Berlanga. Despite Jacobs wishing the best for him, Berlanga was unable to get the job done against Hamzah Sheeraz.

The first three rounds were competitive, but the Brit eventually found a hole in Berlanga’s defensive armor, dropping him twice in the fourth before finishing him in the fifth.

Jacobs, understandably, was heartbroken as Berlanga’s body bounced off the canvas. As the bombastic trash-talker made his way to the locker room, Jacobs shook his head as if he understood what went wrong.

“Sometimes, guys are not able to fully take it as much as they give, and that’s nothing they can train,” Jacobs told The Ring. “When that person catches you on the sweet spot and it’s so early on, you haven’t had time to get your rhythm. It’s so hard to recover.”

Jacobs, a former two-time champion who took punches from the best of them, knows a thing or two about having a granite chin. Having stood across the ring against Gennadiy Golovkin, Canelo Alvarez, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Peter Quillin and countless hard-hitters, he believes he was wired differently.

Trainer Andre Rozier knew that for Jacobs to get himself in the fight and perform at his best, something unusual normally had to occur.

“Sometimes, my trainer would tell me that I need to get hit to wake up,” Jacobs said. “Sometimes, fighters get hit and they aren’t able to get it together.”