Actor Mickey Rourke is set to participate in World Wrestling Entertainment’s biggest night.

The actor is up for a 2009 Academy Award in the Best Actor Category for his role as a former pro wrestling legend working on a comeback in the critically-acclaimed film The Wrestler.

Mickey has revealed he’s about to get in the ring in real life in WWE’s Wrestlemania 25 in Houston on April 5.

“The boys from the WWE called me and asked me to do it,” Mickey said on the red carpet for Sunday night’s Screen Actor Guild Awards in Los Angeles. “I said, ‘I want to.’ I’m talking with [WWE legend] Rowdy Roddy Piper about it.”

“Chris Jericho, you better get in shape,” Rourke added. “Because I’m coming after your ass.”