ANTHONY JOSHUA and Daniel Dubois’ heavyweight showdown has been given the Hollywood treatment… by legendary director Guy Ritchie.
The nation will come to a standstill a fortnight on September 21 when IBF titleholder Dubois and former two-time unified champ AJ throw down at Wembley.
A whopping 96,000 boxing fans will pack out the home of English for the mouthwatering domestic dust-up, which has been several years in the making.
And what promises to be a momentous night for British boxing has appropriately been given a cinematic masterclass of a promotional trailer.
Saudi boxing supremo Turki Alalshikh enlisted the services of the critically acclaimed Brit director Ritchie for the promo.
And ‘The Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ director hasn’t disappointed.
The trailer, which is named ‘Touching Hands’ in an ode to Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’, features eight of the fighters on the Wembley card.
AJ and Dubois are joined by Antony Cacace, Josh Warrington, Joshua Buasti, Willy Hutchinson, Tyler Denny and Hamzah Sheeraz in the gritty promo.
And each boxer finds themselves on the metaphorical canvas with some dodgy characters around them.
The trailer opens with a blood-soaked Joshua lying on the street before eventually switching to Dubois lying in a bath with his hands tied as he’s being electrocuted.
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Joshua then begins to sing the lyrics to ‘Sweet Caroline’ and eventually rises to his feet, with Dubois doing the same in the bath.
As the song builds to its iconic crescendo, the boxers float into the air before being transported into the ring, which is surrounded by thousands of fans.
As the chorus kicks in, they then square off against the gangsters who did a number on them earlier and get their revenge.
The heart-pumping trailer ends with Dubois and Joshua, who were given nicknames fitting of a Ritchie gangster movie, meeting in the middle of the ring after taking deep breaths on the stool.
Boxing fans were blown away by the promo, with one saying: “What a promo this. So fun to watch.”
Another said: “This is crazy!”
And another said: “THIS GOES SO HARD.”
One remarked: “Better promo than the ones you seen on Netflix
Another chimed in: “One for the ages.”
Tensions between Joshua and Dubois will be high during fight week as a result of their fiery sitdown face-off in June.
AJ threatened to hit Dubois with a CHAIR after claiming he disrespected him.
Security quickly stepped in, with Dubois being restrained as Joshua said: “I don’t take disrespect lightly, Dan.
“Dan, I don’t take disrespect lightly you know.
“Don’t sit on the table telling me we can go now and do all of this and that and try [to] call me out.”
