Eric Raskin

Newtown

Co-Host at The Interim Champion Boxing Podcast with Raskin & Mulvaney

Editor (@Casino_Reports, @LotteryGeeks), writer, podcaster, author (The Moneymaker Effect), husband, father, narcoleptic

Articles

If he’s really retired this time … what is Tyson Fury’s legacy?

3 weeks ago | boxingscene.com | Eric Raskin

“I’ve got nothing to prove to anybody, and nothing to return for.”Tyson Fury spoke those words in a video posted on social media on May 24. Call me a sucker, but I believe he meant what he was saying. Yes, this is a man who has announced his retirement at least five times now. And, yes, only a man who has un-retired four times can retire five times. So, the default position should be extreme skepticism, if not outright repudiation. And the words themselves aren’t necessarily true.
The uprooting of Plant: Five takeaways from the huge Resendiz upset

3 weeks ago | boxingscene.com | Eric Raskin

Caleb Plant’s lifestyle brand is called “Revenge Tour,” and as is explained on his website, “The concept of Revenge Tour can be shared and celebrated by anyone who has overcome challenges in life who’s not deterred by the fight back to the top.”Well, if Plant is looking for silver linings at the end of a rough weekend, there’s this: He now has one more challenge to overcome, one more setback to get revenge for and one more person to get revenge on.
‘The next voice of boxing’: How Corey Erdman became the fight game’s busiest broadcaster

4 weeks ago | boxingscene.com | Eric Raskin

You think you’re a boxing nerd? From the time Corey Erdman learned to read, he was walking to the library in his native Kitchener, Ontario, digging into the newspaper archives, and printing out fight reports from the 1940s and ‘50s.
The 2025 World Series Of Poker Arrives, Flush With Plotlines

1 month ago | casinoreports.com | Eric Raskin

Industry All the stories, numbers, and factoids you need to know as another WSOP begins Want to feel old? This ought to do the trick: There will be players competing in this summer’s World Series of Poker Main Event who hadn’t been born yet when Chris Moneymaker won the WSOP and launched what became known as the “poker boom.”OK, to be fair, that was already the case last year, at the 2024 WSOP.
Jake Paul now enjoying the benefits of ‘The Tyson Curve’

1 month ago | boxingscene.com | Eric Raskin

Jake Paul is pulling a reverse Bob Arum. Yesterday he was telling the truth, and today he’s lying. Here’s what Paul said last December regarding suggestions that he may fight Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr next: “I want someone tougher [than Chavez] and I want a real belt, not just something that gets put up for entertainment value.
Ready for their close-up: 10 boxers who badly need biopics

1 month ago | boxingscene.com | Eric Raskin

You show me a boxer, I’ll show you a person whose life story would make a great movie. You show me someone who came from nothing, who suffered abuse and neglect, who had little hope for a productive life until they found the one thing they were good at, who became rich and famous and beloved but had to absorb countless punches to the head to do so, and I’ll show you a screenwriter’s dream.
Rocky road: 40 years ago today, Larry Holmes vs. Carl ‘The Truth’ Williams

1 month ago | boxingscene.com | Eric Raskin

On the night it happened, the title fight between Larry Holmes and Carl “The Truth” Williams was framed as potentially historic because it was one of the final hurdles on the path for Holmes, then the heavyweight champion with a record of 47-0, to match Rocky Marciano’s iconic 49-0 mark. Forty years later, it is indeed a somewhat historic fight, but not quite for the reason advertised at the time. Holmes vs.
The Contender’s Ishe Smith looks back: ‘I wanted to be the villain’

1 month ago | boxingscene.com | Eric Raskin

The Contender debuted on NBC on March 7, 2005. This article is part of a monthly series throughout 2025 — the 20th anniversary year — catching up with alumni of the show. Previous profiles in this series: Sergio Mora, Tarick Salmaci, producer Adam Briles, Peter Manfredo. It’s been a staple of reality TV ever since Puck stuck his fingers in Pedro’s peanut butter on “The Real World” in 1994. If you want your show to engage its audience to maximum emotional effect, you need a villain.
Courier Execs See ‘Silver Lining’ To Texas Lottery Mess

1 month ago | lotterygeeks.com | Eric Raskin

Analysis SBC Americas 2025 lottery panel features Jackpocket shade, reference to ‘Footloose’ On the surface, everything that’s been happening the last three months with the Texas Lottery has been bad for the industry. Since the moment Lt. Gov.
10 hot summer fights - and the burning questions they could answer

1 month ago | boxingscene.com | Eric Raskin

The boxing world is coming off two abnormally busy, eventful (to use a safe euphemism) weekends to start May, and now heads into a relative lull for the rest of the month. The biggest fight this coming weekend? Either Serhii Bohachuk-Mykal Fox or Johnny Fisher-Dave Allen II. As boxing fans, we have to pick and choose our spots, and this is a clear “suck it up and spend some time with your family for a change” Saturday. It improves a little on May 24 with Angelo Leo vs.