He's just worried about coming off as being a cocky guy to the other wrestlers.

"I can tell I'm a prima donna now," Hall said from his Florida home. "It's been a long time since I've [wrestled] in a high school. [The other wrestlers] would slap me if I walked into the locker room and said, 'God, it's been a long time.' "

His high school-less streak ends Oct. 28 when the fifth annual Night of the Super-stars comes to Waynesboro High School for the final time. That night, Hall will be in the corner of former Wolfpack member and close friend X-Pac.

Stuarts Draft resident Marvin Ward - who wrestled in the WCW under the Doug Gibson moniker - started the event five years ago with all the money raised going to the University of Virginia Children's Hospital. It's a place that Ward said is very near and dear to his heart after his two daughters were born premature and treated there. Both are healthy now, but Ward continued with his quest to say thank you in a unique way - promoting wrestling.

But having been in the business for as long as he had, Hall had to make sure if traveling to Waynesboro was the right thing for him to do.

"At first, I was a little bit leery," he said.

The world of wrestling is filled with plenty of unscrupulous promoters, and Hall said there was no way he was going to wrestle for someone who would not give the money to the hospital as promised.

"I checked into it and made sure everything was on the up-and-up," he said.

Fellow wrestlers told Hall the Waynesboro event was legit. He quickly signed up.

The purple and gold of Waynesboro's gym is a far cry from big-time arenas packed with fans wearing your T-shirts and screaming your name. Those days, Hall said, were a dream come true hav-ing grown up watching wres-tling and wanting to be a wrestler.

Hall, 48, was on top of the world when he jumped Vince McMahon's WWE ship and headed south to Ted Turner-owned WCW. There, he along with fellow WWE refugee Kevin Nash (known as Diesel in the WWE), started the now

When the now changed the face of wrestling and sparked the heated and famed Monday Night Wars between Turner and McMahon, Hall said it was some of the most exciting moments of his life.

"I remember that moment when Hulk [Hogan turned heel]," Hall said. "He was the undisputed man. The golden goose. Everything he touches turns to gold. I just wanted to stand next to him so I could get that in my video scrap book."

As a lifelong wrestling fan, the addition of longtime grapplers the Rock and Roll Ex-press and the Midnight Ex-press has Hall feeling like a little boy again.

"I'm excited about watching those guys," Hall said.

It's also a chance to get back with his fans.

Since the Night of the Superstars began, Ward has made the wrestlers available for autographs and photos before the bell. Hall said he and X-Pac, however, will be staying afterward to meet their fans.

"If you come to an autograph session to meet Scott Hall, you're going to meet him," he said. "I don't ever leave people standing there. It's an honor to give somebody an autograph."