NEW YORK — Hamzah Sheeraz seemed as if he were simply attempting to keep up with Edgar Berlanga’s barrage of profane insults.

But by the time their press conference came to its conclusion Thursday, Sheeraz was worked up enough by Berlanga’s attack that he also predicted a knockout in their 12-round super middleweight match July 12 at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens.

“Everything’s all on point,” Sheeraz said as he sat on stage at Palladium Times Square. “And in terms of my prediction for the fight: I go out there, throw a few jabs, land a right hand straight on his chin and knock him the f--- out.”

Berlanga immediately mocked Sheeraz, whose chin the brash Brooklyn native has questioned as they head toward one of the featured fights on Ring III, The Ring’s third card in a 2½-month span. Sheeraz will make his debut in the super middleweight division versus Berlanga, who has fought at the 168-pound limit for the past five years.

The trash-talking Berlanga berated Sheeraz (21-0-1, 17 KOs) for what he considered a half-hearted knockout prediction. Keith Connolly, Berlanga’s manager, stated during the press conference that his fighter will violently stop Sheeraz within six rounds.

Sheeraz declined to choose a round in which he’ll knock out Berlanga when he was pressed by The Ring’s Wade Plemons, who moderated the press conference.

“I’ve learned a lot from my last fight,” Sheeraz said. “Not just in the ring, but outside of the ring as well. So, if it goes 12 rounds, it goes 12 rounds. But it’ll definitely be explosive for sure.”

Berlanga (23-1, 18 KOs) has lost only a 12-round unanimous decision to undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez (63-2-2, 39 KOs) on Sept. 14 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Mexico’s Alvarez dropped Berlanga with a left hook in the third round. Berlanga recovered and remained on his feet the rest of the way.

Argentina’s Marcelo Coceres previously sent Berlanga to the canvas with a counter right in the ninth round of their October 2021 bout at T-Mobile Arena. Berlanga got up from that flash knockdown and won their 10-rounder unanimously, 96-93 on each scorecard, on the Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder undercard.

Carlos Adames didn’t record a knockdown of Sheeraz in the British contender’s last bout. Sheeraz seemed fortunate, though, to secure a split draw with the Dominican Republic’s Adames (24-1-1, 18 KOs), who was defending his WBC middleweight crown Feb. 22 at ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

American middleweight contender Austin “Ammo” Williams previously buzzed Sheeraz with a left hand early in the fourth round of their bout on June 1 at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. Sheeraz held, recovered and eventually broke down Williams on his way to an 11th-round technical knockout.

Four fights earlier, Argentina’s Francisco Torres landed a right hand that sent Sheeraz to the canvas with 2:26 to go in the third round. Sheeraz also floored Torres twice in that round — first with a jab 20 seconds before he himself was dropped with an overhand right.

Sheeraz sent Torres down again with another overhand right in the fifth. Their scheduled 10-rounder was stopped soon thereafter in July 2022 at Copper Box Arena in London.

The 6-foot-4 Sheeraz is confident he will be able to take Berlanga’s power, particularly because he won’t deplete himself nearly as much as he did when he squeezed down the middleweight limit of 160 pounds. Sheeraz scoffed, too, at Berlanga’s contention that he didn’t really want to battle The Ring’s No. 9-rated super middleweight.

“Hey, listen, listen,” Sheeraz said, “if I was soft I wouldn’t be going into a fight like this at 168, at a new weight. … I think that ends that there and July the 12th we’ll see what I’m all about.”