In an interview with Busted Open Radio, WWE superstar Chris Jericho commented on a variety of topics, including the status of former WWE Cruiserweight Champion Neville.

“It doesn’t surprise me, because I think a guy like Neville, whenever I worked with him, we had great matches. He reminds me a lot, actually, of working with Chris Benoit, in that he’s very hard-hitting, he’s very solid, very graceful and not stiff in the least, just a really innovative, smart worker. I think he wasn’t really getting his shot in the WWE and the Cruiserweight thing is fine, but let’s be honest, it is what it is.

I think there’s a lot higher potential for a guy like Neville in the ring and also the character. If he left, you know that he is gonna be one of those guys like Cody Rhodes, guys like The Young Bucks and Will Ospreay and Marty Scurll that are making a choice not to be in the WWE and proving that it’s not the be-all, end-all if you’re not there. Look at Tommy Dreamer with House of Hardcore, very successful outside of the reins of the WWE.

It’s a big step, it’s like walking off the side of a building and being told that there’s a net at the bottom, but you can’t see it, so you don’t know for sure if he’s making the right decision as of right now, but talent-wise, character-wise and intelligence-wise, he’s got all three of those things, so he’s not making this decision lightly and I think wherever he ends up, he’ll be probably a bigger star than he was before just by getting a bigger opportunity.”

The interview is available in full at this link.