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Feb 22, 2015 - 1:06:07 AM
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By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

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WWE Legend "The Rock" Dwayne Johnson is scheduled to present an award at the 87th Academy Awards Sunday night on ABC.

Johnson will be part of a who's who of Hollywood actors appearing on-stage introducing various award categories and winners.

- WWE Hall of Famer Koko B. Ware recently talked about working with Johnson when he was just starting in the wrestling business in the mid-1990s. Johnson, who started out in Jerry Jarrett's USWA promotion in Memphis, thought about quitting before ever making it to WWF.

"When the Rock came down here from Miami he was a big, pretty, good looking young man and he was so depressed about not making no money in the wrestling business," Koko told Evan "Tech" Prout of "Under the Mat" radio in Baltimore.

"When they had him down there in Memphis, Tennessee he was starving to death and one night he was stretched out on the couch and said, 'I'm going to go get me a real job.' I told him, 'Dewey, keep working out and go to New York (WWE).'"

Johnson eventually made it to WWF/E, became a top wrestler for WWE, moved into full-time acting, and is now presenting at the Oscars.

- Johnson is now attached to the "Fast" movie franchise. The first installment was released back in June 2001, two months after Johnson headlined arguably the best WrestleMania in WWE history at WM17 in the Houston Astrodome.

Now as the leader of the franchise following the tragic death of Paul Walker, Johnson talked in a recent interview about knowing when it was time to resume filming "Fast 7."

''It was one of the most difficult things we had all gone through. It affected the movie in that it completely shut it down, which was the right and appropriate thing to do," Johnson was quoted by publicity outlet Bang Showbiz. ''You're left with, 'What do we do next? What's the most appropriate step? What's the most respectful step?'

''We did what I feel was the best thing, which was create a little bit of space, make a little bit of time, and regroup, pull our wagons back and then move forward with how we're going to make the best movie possible, with the intention of respecting Paul and his legacy."

"Fast 7" is due out April 3, the weekend after WWE's WrestleMania 31 from Levi's Stadium in Northern California, where Johnson was born when his father, Rocky Johnson, wrestled in the San Francisco territory in the early 1970s.

[Torch art credit Grant Gould (c) PWTorch.com]


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