I was dialed in to wrestling when he had his main event run, and I think what made his death really sad was he was clearly at the peak of his powers but more importantly, loving every minute of it. He'd finally got clean, was having a ton of fun, and then BAM. Heart attack. Paid the price for the prior abuse of his body.
It gutted me, to be honest.
Prior to that WWE main event run, though, he never quite did it for me either. Chris Jericho is similar for me, just never really done it for me.
Eddy will always have that period.