NEW YORK – Edgar Berlanga is well aware of his critics, what they have said and written about him since he was knocked down during a subpar performance five months ago in Las Vegas.

Brooklyn’s Berlanga realizes, though, that detractors don’t dictate what happens next for the undefeated super middleweight. The 24-year-old knockout artist went from hot to not despite that he defeated Marcelo Coceres by unanimous decision on the Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder undercard, yet he knows it is up to him, and only him, to determine how his career takes shape in 2022.