Johnson also shared praise for rapper Travis Scott's participation in the event Dwayne Johnson is explaining his absence from Wrestlemania. After fans expressed disappointment when Johnson, 52, didn't participate in the annual wrestling event,

In Johnson's 2000 autobiography "The Rock Says" (Page 147), available via the Internet Archive, he said the Stampeders' training camp began in June 1995, further confirming he was 23 at the time. (The May 31, 1995, date of the Calgary Herald article suggests the training camp may in fact have started slightly earlier.)

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