The time of Williams, Sprott, Skelton and Audley was an era fortunate to have come along in to be honest. A lot of guys past and present would have loved to have fought for a British title against any of them.
A lot worse than Negus have claimed a world title. If he had the promotion and money behind him, they would have found an organisation that he could win a belt from.
I miss those days of a random heavyweight fight happening, Danny Williams vs sinan samil sam for the euro title always springs to mind