WWE Raw: Potential Spoilers, Rumors, News and Preview for November 30

With Roman Reigns and Sheamus on center stage again, will WWE Raw be able to reverse the show's current tailspin?

Reigns continues his chase as he looks to take back the WWE World Heavyweight Championship he grasped for just moments at Survivor Series. WWE, meanwhile, is on a chase of its own. The company is struggling to keep eyes on its marquee show each Monday.

Last week's Raw tanked. Dave Meltzer pointed out on F4WOnline, "The show did 2.95 million viewers, more than 200,000 viewers lower than what had previously been the non-holiday low dating back to 1997 when Raw was losing badly to WCW Monday Nitro."

It's not yet clear if fans are engaged in the story of Reigns' rise or if Sheamus will be a complete bust as champ. There's a wealth of work to be done to elevate interest in WWE programming as a whole and that rivalry specifically.

What does WWE have on tap for Monday's Raw in Pittsburgh beyond that title feud? Backstage reports, James Wortman's five-point preview on WWE.com and projecting where current storylines are headed help answer that.

News, Potential Spoilers

It looks as if the Charlotte vs. Paige feud will continue to lean on the champion's family lineage. Her Hall of Fame father is reportedly scheduled for Monday's show.

PWInsider's Mike Johnson reported, "WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair has been added to tomorrow's Raw in Pittsburgh."

Flair has worked alongside Charlotte in the past. It makes the most sense that this is where WWE uses him this time around, too. 

Monday's Raw also has a slight chance of featuring some NXT talent. Johnson wrote on PWInsider, "NXT champ Finn Balor and Baron Corbin were on the road this weekend, so they are likely at Raw as well."

Per CageMatch.net, Balor and Corbin competed against each other at WWE house shows on Nov. 28 and 29.

Were John Cena still around and still issuing his open challenges, it would be a much safer bet that either Corbin or Balor would make an appearance on Raw. As it stands, the two wrestlers are likely just getting some experience in front of WWE crowds. 

And count on not seeing Lana on TV for a long while.

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (h/t Wrestling Inc), a source informed them that the reported heat on her has been an understatement. WWE is reportedly unhappy with her bickering online with Paige and leaking information about her engagement to Rusev.

And even with Raw in Nashville, where she lives, last week, she didn't make an appearance. Rusev has moved on to a position with The Authority while The Ravishing Russian resides in the doghouse.

James Caldwell noted on PWTorch that Kane, The Wyatt Family, Dean Ambrose and Kevin Owens are among those advertised for Monday's Raw.

TLC Build Continues

Thanks to him knocking off both Dolph Ziggler and Tyler Breeze in a Triple Threat on Thursday's SmackDown, Ambrose is now the No. 1 contender for the Intercontinental Championship. 

That restarts a feud that looked to be developing before Seth Rollins' injury rearranged the booking plan. Ambrose has a non-title win over Owens thanks to besting him during the WWE title tourney at Survivor Series. That gives WWE another element to add to this story.

Wortman teased that the IC champ will further the feud on Monday night. He asked, "Will Owens send a message to Ambrose on Raw?"

Another match for the TLC pay-per-view that appears to be in the works is The Wyatt Family vs. The Dudley Boyz.

On last week's SmackDown, Bray Wyatt and his crew assaulted The Dudley Boyz. That and the fact that the teams have been in two straight matches now makes it clear that this rivalry is going forward.

That helps clear up the tag title picture some, as Bubba Ray and D-Von will likely be too busy tangling with the monster to concern themselves with championships.

Both The Usos and The Lucha Dragons have been hovering around the title picture. The Lucha Dragons beat The New Day (with The Usos' help) on the last SmackDown.

And each of the potential challengers answered New Day's open challenge on last week's Raw.

Wortman asked, "Are The Usos and The Lucha Dragons going to somehow parlay their Thanksgiving triumph into a WWE Tag Team Championship opportunity? If so, which team is more worthy of that honor? "

WWE could easily decide to have all three teams go at it on the PPV. Monday's Raw is a prime time to have one of the squads move past the other if that's the direction the company plans on going, though. 

Charlotte and Paige are clearly on course to collide at TLC. Paige bashed the champ after the bell last Monday and tortured her with the PTO.

In his five-point preview, Wortman hinted that the Divas champion will get some payback when he wrote, "Will Charlotte attain retribution this week?"

Credit: WWE.com

All those stories are subplots. Reigns' battle with Sheamus and The Authority is the main narrative heading into TLC. And the first taste of it resulted in historically bad ratings.

Does that mean that WWE gets creative or just stays the course hoping for change? How the company handles this situation could invigorate a product that has largely stalled of late. Or else the sinking ship could take on more water.

Wortman didn't offer a lot in terms of hints of how WWE will proceed. He wrote, "Will Sheamus keep his distance this Monday night, as a determined Reigns looks to their high-stakes, career-threatening collision?" 

That could mean that The Authority's new members, Rusev and King Barrett, will do the fighting for him on Monday's Raw.

It's a show with major questions surrounding it. Do continued poor ratings inspire change? Do fans buy into Reigns as the Daniel Bryan-like underdog in a battle with The Authority? Is Raw going to find a way to generate the spark it has lost?