Bully Ray will challenge Josh Alexander for the Impact World Championship at tonight’s Hard To Kill pay-per-view event. Ray returned to Impact at Bound For Glory 2022, winning the Call Your Shot battle royal to earn a title opportunity.

Recently, Bully Ray chatted with the Paltrocast podcast about his return to Impact, and how the deal was kept a secret.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

Keeping his return to Impact a secret: “When I have done anything in wrestling that didn’t shock people, or make it a surprise? When I returned to the Royal Rumble in 2015, one of the louder pops in Rumble history. When me and D-Von returned to the WWE at the Barclays Center on Monday Night Raw, another monster pop.

“You never know when I’m gonna show up because I know how to keep my mouth shut. Wrestlers talk too much. I talk to nobody. Only the people that need to know, know. That’s what makes my surprises special. If you go back and you watch Bound For Glory, when my music hits, that place comes alive.”

Working the deal to return with Scott D’Amore: “It wasn’t that long. The deal was done very, very quickly. The deal was done between myself and Scott D’Amore, so if you really want to know who or what the first domino was to fall in this entire situation, Josh Alexander leading me to be in a position to win the Call Your Shot Gauntlet battle royal and once again have an opportunity to fight for the IMPACT World Championship, blame it on Scott D’Amore, who as we saw last night, should have never put his hands on me. Scott D’Amore has fallen, Tommy Dreamer has fallen. Josh Alexander’s wife has fallen, and on Friday the 13th, in a sold-out Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia, live on FITE TV, all around the world, you’ll see me defeat Josh Alexander, become the three-time IMPACT World Champion, and Josh Alexander will have fallen also.”

You can see a video clip of Bully Ray’s appearance below: