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Hernandez' Big Decision

New Year’s Eve. As 2017 gave way to 2018, Alexander Hernandez was in a good mood. Correct that, a great mood.

“That night, I was in a giant warehouse in Atlanta, raging my **** off with a few of my best friends and we were up until probably 5am,” laughed Hernandez, who was coming off a third-round stoppage of Derrick Adkins in November 2017, his first fight in over a year. It was at that moment he began to realize that his days of burning the candle at both ends were over.

“I was going a transition period,” he said.