By Per Ake Persson

28-year old former EBU super featherweight champion Romain Jacob (24-1) has announced his retirement from boxing. Jacob tells French media he had felt some problems with his eyesight and was given the advice by the doctors not to box anymore.

Jacob appeared to be heading towards world titles when he last year he suffered an upset loss to Spaniard Juli Giner.

Jacob won the EBU title in 2014 and defended it twice before running into the hard punching Giner. He scored one win this year but now it is apparently over and it´s a big loss for the rejuvenated French boxing scene.

IN OTHER NEWS: Caramelito Promotions celebrates its 30th show with tv contract on January

Vaasa-based Finnish stable Caramelito Promotions organized its first ever show on February 2009. Today the team had press conference when its chief Markus Lammi announced their next upcoming show which at the same time will be 30th show celebration for Caramelito Promotions.

Caramelito Promotions has had ups and downs during the years but all in all it has done massive career in Finnish professional boxing and has managed already retired Finnish national champions and Baltic Boxing Union champions like heavyweight Janne Katajisto and middleweight Fitim Latifi, Finnish crowd pleaser Teemu Tuominen and Estonian KO artist Anton Sjomkin as well as a couple of still active boxers like cruiserweight/light heavyweight Janne Forsman and EU ranked light heavyweight Sami Enbom, middleweight Timo Laine and two still undefeated prospects like Mathias Eklund and Veli-Pekka Mattila.

Manager Markus Lammi became high profile name in Finnish professional boxing back in spring 2015 when he worked as matchmaker for Nordic Nightmare Robert Helenius during Helenius´ comeback. Lammi worked with close connection to promoter Kalle Keskinen and Loud N´ Live Promotions for Helenius´ cards in Finland till bitter Duhaupas-loss back in April 2016.

Now team is back with its own shows and is starting year 2017 very strongly on January 28th in its home town Vaasa. Upcoming show at WS Arena contains 6 international professional bouts and 1 local exhibition bout. On the main event Hungarian Gyula Nagy in hunting for a revenge for his career first loss back in December 2015 towards Mathias Eklund. The pair fought a year ago a close fight with Eklund taking SD win which especially Nagy and his manager Giuseppe Lauri felt as home decision. Anyway now Nagy has a chance to finish the unfinished business with the Finn but supposedly Eklund will be a favourite once again in the main event match.

Other home boxers on the card are Veli-Pekka Mattila (2-0-1), Samuli Kärkkäinen (making debut on this Saturday in Salo, Finland) and Gambian born - but coming from Iceland - Mustapha Jobi (2-0).

The biggest piece of news on press conference was that Caramelito Promotions has succeeded to make tv-contract for its 30th show celebration card with ISTV. ISTV is part of the biggest media company in Finland and has an active worker to broadcast Finnish combat sport shows live on its webtv service called as IS EXTRA.