Sprott was always a journeyman fighter, strong but very limited. He was being soundly outboxed by Fraudley until he struck the fortunate punch that changed British heavyweight boxing. I'm not sure why anyone really expected him to be competitive or any different now?

Skelton is an odd one - he came to the sport very late and has actually matured from an all out bully/slugger to something of a boxer (he outboxed Williams pretty soundly in their second fight). However, while he is still learning, it's too late for him to be a real force as he is 41 and remains naive in the ring. Despote having a decent stoppage record, he is seriously underpowered in heavyweight terms and the real world class operators out there would just play with him.

The truth if it is that we are fortunate to have had Williams, Fraudley, Sprott, Skelton etc to generate a bit of domestic interest and competition ........ but not a single one of them is world class.