The European tour will commence this Friday with the May 29 edition of Friday Night SmackDown, which will serve as the go-home show of Clash in Italy. Live from the Olimpic Arena in Badalona, Barcelona, Spain, the show will feature the final face-offs before the PLE. Cody Rhodes, Rhea Ripley, Randy Orton, Jade Cargill, Drew McIntyre, and Tiffany Stratton are listed as featured superstars for the show. WWE is also expected to deliver multiple promo segments hyping up fans for the upcoming PLE, which is set for Sunday. Last week, Gunther launched a brutal attack on Cody Rhodes after the latter’s main event clash against Sami Zayn, who refused to help Cody as Gunther put him to sleep. Now, ahead of his Undisputed title defense at Clash in Italy, Rhodes will address the attack on the go-home show. The only match WWE has announced for tonight’s 3 hour episode of SmackDown (as of this writing at 8 am ET) is a low card singles bout between The Miz and Axiom. These guys got into a backstage argument last week over Danhausen’s curse, which led to Miz threatening to ruin Axiom’s return home in Spain. On the surface, this looks like a throwaway match that doesn’t have much juice to it until Danhausen and Kit Wilson get involved. The show also featured two title matches. Tiffany Stratton retained the Women’s US title against Lash Legend after help from Chelsea Green, while Trick Williams retained the US title over Carmelo Hayes, due to interference from Ricky Saints. In the main event of the show, Cody Rhodes defeated Sami Zayn, but was ambushed by Gunther after the match. Zayn refused to help Cody as Gunther locked in the sleeper and then flaunted the title ahead of their showdown at the PLE. Fraxiom is currently going nowhere in WWE (Nathan Frazer can’t even beat that jabroni Matt Cardona), and this is Axiom’s first chance to show off his top notch wrestling skills in a singles bout on SmackDown since January. Miz is certainly not in his league in that regard, and a match with low card guys doesn’t typically get a lot of time. However, WWE is desperate to fill out three hours of content, so maybe this one will go longer than usual, especially with Axiom being the hometown hero.