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ATLANTA, Ga. -- The Rock is ready to prepare up whatever excitement at WrestleMania.

Former pro-wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne President module patron WrestleMania XXVII on Apr 3 in Atlanta, the WWE declared on Tuesday.

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"I'm dead thrilled and fired up to be the patron of WrestleMania. My content was to partner up with Vince McMahon and WWE to create and have something globally entertaining and electrifying," the grapheme said in a advise release. "As an actor, entertainer and someone who both loves and has grown up in the sports entertainment business, the possibleness to patron 75,000 passionate fans in a springy venue, not to mention the millions that module be watching worldwide, is not only exciting but quite honestly the possibleness of a lifetime. It's feat to be one helluva an poem night."

Johnson made his WWE debut back in 1996 and won a amount of 16 assorted titles during his time as a favoring wrestler.

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Johnson, whose film credits include "Faster," "The Tooth Fairy" and "The Scorpion King," module incoming be seen on the bounteous concealment in "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" - the supplement to 2008's "Journey to the Center of the Earth," starring Brendan Fraser.

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