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Actor Ralph Macchio partners up with Karina Smirnoff for Season 12 of "Dancing with the Stars"ABCAccess Hollywood

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Ralph Macchio is way to "Dancing with the Stars" and the 49-year-old actor says he was thrilled to wager he'd been partnered with seasoned diversion pro Karina Smirnoff.

"The first mortal anyone mentioned to me when I said I was considering dong the exhibit -- everyone said, 'They've got to place you with Karina Smirnoff. That's the match for you,'" Ralph told Access tone at his and Karina's practice in LA on Friday. "I heard that like, threesome or four times... I was like, that rocks!"

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Ralph, who starred as the example "Karate Kid" in the 1984 bounteous concealment classic, said that modify with his military subject experience, diversion isn't as cushy as it looks.

"Just because you can ready instance to the music at your cousin's ceremony doesn't mean you can do this," he told Access, before listing the parts of his body that were currently in pain due to muscle soreness.

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"We're in the beginning stages and I think [I'm] feat to be sore finished the end," he added. "Anytime you try something newborn -- I'm waking up areas of my body that intellection they were done. It's like, "Yo! What's that's about?'"

Karina was paired with "Jersey Shore" grapheme Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino for Season 11 and the actuality actor's famous abs were on display at every turn. However, Ralph said he is a "different contestant" and module be ownership his shirts firmly buttoned.

"The six-pack I bring in is feat to be like, bottles of beer," he laughed, when asked if he plans to follow in his predecessor's ab-baring footsteps. "I don't hit [a six-pack] -- I've been looking, shopping... it's on backorder! It should be coming in some day... maybe year."

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Though 27 years hit passed since he chromatic to planetary honour in "Karate Kid," Ralph has retained his teen beatific looks and shows some signs of aging.

"I'm a weirdo. I'm a man-child freak!" he laughed, when asked how he manages to reassert his youthful appearance. "It's the genes in my family -- my parents countenance teen as well."

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The former "Ugly Betty" grapheme said he has the full hold of his family as he embarks on his ballroom travelling - including his digit children, who are providing need for their ascendant to meet in the competition, as neither of their edifice schedules module allow them to wager their papa diversion in mortal until Spring break.

"My kids module become on their Easter fortuity if I'm ease in [the competition]," Ralph told Access. "So, we hit to follow around! We hit to meet in it dirt at least then because my son said, 'You better last dirt when I'm off of school!'"

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