He wasn't the best thing on TV, but he wasn't the worst. He never had me wanting to change the channel and smashing guitars over someone's head never gets old with me so he had that going
Edit: I do remember as a youngin reading those Apter mags, and they always had the USWA rankings would be beside WWF and WCW so I assumed it was the third biggest organization and I'd see his name always near the top of their rankings so when he first came to WWF I thought he was going to be a big deal... but then after seeing him, it was really "Meh".