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Maher Centre is a 1,100m² pillarless events hall in Leicester for professional and amateur boxing, MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing and white-collar charity fight nights. Up to 1,200 guests in a sporting dinner layout around the ring, two en-suite dressing rooms, and a 350+ space private car park five to ten minutes from M1 Junction 21.
A big, open, single-storey hall that you can shape around your ring. There are no pillars anywhere in the room, so the ring goes dead centre and every table, row and VIP seat looks straight at the action. Leaving no ticket-holder sat behind a pillar.
Fight nights are a regular part of our calendar, from licensed professional shows to white-collar charity nights where office colleagues step through the ropes for the first time. The format changes. What promoters tell us they care about stays the same: ring space, ringside tables that sell, a capacity that makes the numbers work, an easy load-in, and a venue team that plans the night with them rather than leaving them to it.
It depends on whether your crowd is eating, sitting in rows or standing. Here's how the hall works for combat sports.
Exact numbers depend on your ring size, walkways, camera positions and how many ringside tables you want. Our event manager will help you draw the plan, so you know your sellable seats before tickets go on sale. See the full capacity and layouts guide.
Every booking covers a full 12 hours, including your set-up and pack-down. For a fight night that usually means:
Your ring crew, AV and caterer arrive. Single-storey building, car park outside, no stairs or lifts to fight with.
Fighters settle into the two en-suite dressing rooms. Officials and medics get set up where you've planned.
Your stewards open the doors, guests park on site and find their tables. Dinner served before the main card.
Walk-ons, the card, the main event. We handle the full venue clean-up afterwards.
The hall is all on one level, so ring sections, flight cases and catering equipment roll straight in. Vans park in our private car park while crews unload. Allow roughly two hours either side for build and strip; if your ring crew needs longer, tell us when you book and we'll plan the timings with you. Nothing ever feels rushed.
Promoters bring their own licensed door supervisors and stewards, sized to the show. Before the night, our event manager walks through the plan with you: entrances, ticket checks, the route from the dressing rooms to the ring, where the crowd is kept back, and how people leave. On the night our own team, an event manager, a caretaker and three car park and WC attendants, look after the building, toilets and car park so your staff can focus on the crowd.
We don't hold or issue fight licences. Sanctioning, officials, ringside doctors, paramedics and any permissions your show needs are arranged by the promoter, in line with your governing body. Tell us what your paperwork needs from the venue and we'll help.
Sporting dinners live or die on getting a hot meal out to a full room before the first bell. Your caterer works from our industrial kitchen, with four burners, a free gas supply and refrigeration. Choose a caterer from our partner network, teams who already know the venue, or bring your own. Beef and pork are not served on the grounds of the Maher Centre, so plan menus around chicken, lamb, fish and vegetarian dishes. A bar is optional: we offer corkage and bar hire in three tiers, or can refer you to a specialist bar company.
Fight crowds arrive together and leave together. Our free 350+ space private floodlit car park means guests aren't circling side streets or collecting parking tickets. Save your crowd a fortune on parking fines. We're five to ten minutes from M1 Junction 21, so fans and fighters can travel in easily from Birmingham, Nottingham, Coventry and Northampton.
Licensed shows with ringside dinner tables, VIP rows and a main event that everyone can see clearly.
First-timers, big friendly crowds and lots of tables of colleagues. Great for raising money. See our charity gala page for fundraising ideas.
Ring or cage cards. Walk-on music through the PA and replays on the optional 7m LED screen.
Club shows, title nights and inter-gym cards with families and fight fans in the same room.
Standing or theatre-style layouts for up to 1,500 when tickets are general admission.
Guest-speaker evenings and awards with a stage instead of a ring. More on our sports and sporting events hub.
Popular Saturdays book up early, so lock in your date before you announce the card. Come and see the hall: tours are by appointment and take about 30 minutes. Bring your ring dimensions and we'll talk through the layout on the spot.
Tell us a little about your event and our events team will come back to you within one working day with availability and a written quote.