WWE Raw: Potential Spoilers, Rumors, News and Preview for Sept. 15

On the Sept. 15 edition of WWE Raw, Brock Lesnar crawls out of his lair to face the man who has been barking his name.

After appearing mostly via pre-recorded videos for the last few weeks, The Beast Incarnate is scheduled to appear in the flesh. His and John Cena's rivalry will be front and center as WWE takes its final steps toward Night of Champions.

The fans packed inside the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana, will also see a Divas tag team match and more of NXT's top guys introducing themselves to a wider audience.

Backstage reports and James Wortman's five-point preview on WWE.com provide info on what else to expect. A few injury notes suggest that two Superstars could see less time in the ring, which would leave a bit more time for the midcard feuds set to culminate at the upcoming pay-per-view.

The go-home show airs on USA Network at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT.

News, Potential Spoilers

The crossover between NXT and Raw is set to continue.

Last week, Sami Zayn and Adrian Neville teamed up to defeat Tyson Kidd and Tyler Breeze, marking the Raw debut for three of NXT's top stars. The bout helped promote the NXT Takeover: Fatal 4-Way special which featured all four men in the main event.

It looks as if fans will get more opportunities to see Zayn and Company work their magic on Monday and beyond. PWInsider's Mike Johnson reports that "Sami Zayn and Tyler Breeze are currently scheduled for the next few weeks, while we are told NXT champion Adrian Neville is currently scheduled to be at the tapings well into October."

Johnson later noted that The Ascension were also "brought to Raw and SmackDown this week."

The Ascension knocked off Los Matadores on last Tuesday's Main Event. That could have been a precursor to a full-fledged jump to the main roster. Losing the NXT tag titles at Takeover frees them to come to the big leagues. 

That's great news for a tag team division in need of more depth.

The Wyatt Family has slid down the rankings of that division lately. That's perhaps due to Luke Harper not being 100 percent.

According to F4WOnline (h/t Wrestling Inc), Harper is currently working through an eye injury.

WWE does seem to be clearing his schedule of late. Harper didn't wrestle on either Main Event or Raw last week. His last two SmackDown matches were of the 10-man and eight-man variety, allowing him to share the workload.

Without a Night of Champions match to build toward, WWE may have Harper take it easy once more.

That's possibly what will happen with Bo Dallas as well. A fan account on ProWrestling.net of the Sept. 13 house show notes that during a Triple Threat match, "Dallas might have been hurt. He was helped from the ring."

There has been no word on what kind of injury this was or if it was even a legitimate one.

If he's banged up, though, it will be easy for WWE to use him on Raw in a non-wrestling capacity. He can simply egg on Jack Swagger as he has been doing for the last few weeks.

Night of Champions Hard Sell

Monday's Raw marks the last major chance to hype the upcoming Night of Champions pay-per-view.

Animosity will be turned up. Rivalries will intensify. 

For the storyline surrounding the Divas Championship and The Bella Twins splintering, that intensity will come by way of a tag team match. Sister will face sister and two women who claim to love each other will clash on opposite teams.

Per WWE.com, AJ and Brie will take on Nikki and Paige on Monday's Raw.

Credit: WWE.com

Brie is the only one of the three not battling for the Divas title on Night of Champions. How this contest plays out should provide hints as to how she factors into that match. 

Recent weeks have shown that WWE is committed to pushing this story and has made it a featured part of the program. Even without Jerry Springer around to moderate things this time, that should once again be the case here.

With Chris Jericho and Randy Orton's latest feud beginning just last week, expect it to get some solid airtime as well. WWE has some catching up to do with that narrative.

Orton ambushed Jericho in the trainer's room on last Monday's Raw. Jericho got a measure of revenge by pinning Orton in a tag team match on last Friday's SmackDown.

In the five-point preview, Wortman hints that it will be Orton's turn to strike. He writes, "Y2J might get a startling reminder of why Orton was once known as The Legend Killer."

Fans can also count on a response from Roman Reigns to the throttling Orton and Seth Rollins handed him last Monday. The question will be if Reigns will do more suffering than celebrating before Night of Champions.

In the WWE.com preview, Wortman asks, "Will Rollins look to stomp out Reigns' momentum?"

The heel could have the upper hand in the feud between Dolph Ziggler and The Miz as well. The fact that Wortman asks if The Miz will "have something up his tailored sleeve for Ziggler" points to that possibility.

When WWE is done updating those midcard feuds, the marquee bout will be the confrontation fans have been waiting for.

Lesnar and Cena haven't met face-to-face since the champ shellacked the fan favorite at SummerSlam.

Cena has since been trying to prove that he will fare better in the rematch. He laid out an ultimatum last week. Cena said that if Lesnar didn't show up on Monday, he would fight Paul Heyman instead.

There's a chance that Heyman's imposing monster will make Cena's experience in the Cajundome at lot like what he endured at SummerSlam.

Wortman writes in his preview of Monday's Raw, "Will Lesnar make Cena regret calling out The Conqueror? Will Cena even make it to Night of Champions?"

The one certainty is that although this story has lacked many confrontations, these two men will finally be in the same building again. An explosion awaits.