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

The 2025 World Series Of Poker Arrives, Flush With Plotlines

1 week 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 week 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

2 weeks 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

2 weeks 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’

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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.
Basketballs, Ping-Pong Balls, And This Week’s Top Lottery Prize

3 weeks ago | lotterygeeks.com | Eric Raskin

Analysis Would you rather have $110 million from Mega Millions, or the rights to Cooper Flagg? With all due respect to the various daily, nightly, and weekly lottery drawings going on around the country, the most watched and most talked about lottery drawing of the year will take place Monday night in Chicago. At about 5 p.m. CT, inside a secure room, ping-pong balls will be drawn to determine which teams get the first four picks in the 2025 NBA Draft.
Spin Cycle: All The Sweepstakes News You Can Handle Highlights Week In Gambling

1 month ago | casinoreports.com | Eric Raskin

Industry Plus: Several poker tidbits, the G2E Dealer Championship, links, social media, and puns galore Welcome to “Spin Cycle,” Casino Reports’ weekly Friday roundup of all things impactful, intriguing, impressive, or idiotic in the gambling industry.
Naoya Inoue, the rarest of pound-for-pound monsters

1 month ago | boxingscene.com | Eric Raskin

It was, without a doubt, my favorite rant any guest ever went on in the five-year history of the “HBO Boxing Podcast.” My co-host Kieran Mulvaney and I were on radio row at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for a pay-per-view, chatting with the one and only Roy Jones, and the topic of pound-for-pound lists came up. Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez had recently been atop some people’s rankings, and Roy wasn’t having it:“For them to put Chocolatito number one pound-for-pound?