Reinventing the Finito

Well, if you’ve noticed, it’s been a few months since anything appeared in this space. My apologies for that; I certainly hadn’t intended for the Finito to suddenly fade into the sunset after a year and a half a la David Reid! Truth is, I’ve always called this blog a labor of love; while the love is there, watching all the fights, putting together the research and getting all my thoughts together was very much the labor. I was always able to do that because my job was much like a nurse’s shift, and I’d have three or four days off at a time. Around the first part of October, I took an 8 to 5 job like most regular American folks. I figured I would have all the time in the world to continue my weekly ramblings, now that I wouldn’t be a night-working vampire anymore and be alive with the rest of the world. Alas, soon enough, I found that I almost never had any time during the week to WATCH the fights, let alone write anything about them. Most of the time in the past, one of my posts would take me one or more nights to put together. With my current job, I just don’t have that kind of time. Why didn’t you 8 to 5’ers tell me about any of this stuff?

So now that I’ve bored you with all the details of my life you could care less about (Finito Lopez would have found time to write, you might be thinking), here’s the point. Since the previous posts took as much time to put together as they did, why not just make more frequent, but shorter, posts? I still watch the fights and keep up with everything in the Sweet Science; instead of a two or three-page article, a short and sweet post might just do the trick. So from here on out, the Finito will continue, just in more frequent and smaller bursts. I have no idea how this will eventually flesh itself out, but why not give it a try?

For those of you that have read my crazy ramblings the last couple of years, I thank you. For those of you who would rather read the wit and wisdom of Floyd Mayweather than anything I might have to say, I have bad news. Here begins the relaunch of the Finito – I hope you’ll be along for the ride!