BOXING World Championships Results Day One

Cathal McMonagle lost his super heavyweight bout at the AIBA World Senior Championships in Milan tonight following a 14-5 reversal to Thomas Markovic of Croatia.

McMonagle, who boxes out of the Holy Trinity club in Belfast, was 2-0 up in the first round of the encounter but Markovic showed some excellent counter punching skills to emerge victorious at the Mediolanum Forum.

Meanwhile, Declan Geraghty advanced and Philip Sutcliffe bowed out on identical verdicts earlier today.

Geraghty got Ireland's campaign off to a winning start with an impressive 12-5 win over 2008 Olympian Manyo Plange of Ghana this morning.

The Dublin Docklands flyweight, who, like Sutcliffe, was making his World Championship debut, will now meet Mumim Veli of Macedonia in the last 32 next Friday morning.

Geraghty was 3-2 up at the end of the first round. Plange, who won one bout at the Beijing Olympics, leveled affairs at 3-3 but two superb lefts from the Irish southpaw helped him to a 8-4 advantage going into the third and concluding stanza.

Sutcliffe was beaten 12-5 by Romanian light welterweight Tralan Lupu.

The Crumlin clubman was 2-0 down two minutes into the bout but restored parity at 2-2 before the bell for the end of the first.

However, Lupu, who beat Irish 2008 Olympian John Joe Joyce in Turkey earlier this year, was 7-5 ahead at the end of the second and added another five points to his total in the final frame.