Host Venue
The Sweat Lab
MMA & Fitness
Gibsonville, NC
The ring, the cage and the room. Home card.
- Date
- Sat Sep 262026
- Doors
- 5:00 PMFighter check-in
- First Bell
- 6:00 PMBouts run all night
- Where
- The Sweat LabGibsonville, NC
The Night
A real fight card, ten minutes from home.
MMA, boxing, kickboxing and grappling in a full-size ring and a cage. A DJ between every bout, food on site, and a room that gets loud.
No drive to Charlotte, no arena parking, no nosebleed seats. Doors at five, first bell at six, and you'll be close enough to hear the corners.
Surface One
Full-Size Boxing Ring
Ropes, corners, canvas — a regulation ring set up in the gym. Ring bouts get the crowd on three sides.
Surface Two
MMA Cage
Our cage, the same one the Wednesday night crew wall-wrestles in. Matches are assigned to whichever surface fits the bout.
Co-Promoted
Three organizations, one card.
This isn't a one-gym smoker. Three rooms are putting fighters and people on this night, which means deeper matchmaking, better matches, and nobody stepping in against someone they shouldn't.
The Sweat Lab
Partner Gym
Greensboro, NC
Twenty-five minutes down the road, with a room that turns out fighters. Their athletes are on this card.
Partner
Fight promotion
Running fight cards is what they do. Having them on this one means the night runs like a show.
On The Card
Four disciplines, one card.
Every bout is matched by experience and weight. This is an exhibition — nobody is building a professional record tonight, and nobody gets put in over their head.
MMA
Striking and grappling together. The full sport, matched carefully.
Boxing
Hands only, in the ring. Clean, fast, and easy to follow if you've never watched a fight before.
Kickboxing
Hands and feet. The most action per round on most cards.
Grappling
No strikes. Takedowns, position, submissions — a chess match at speed.
Watch It
Get your ticket before the door.
Doors open at 5:00 PM and the first bell is at 6:00 PM. There's a live DJ running the room between bouts and food on site, so come hungry and come early — the good spots go first.
This is a family-friendly room. Bring the kids who've been asking what their coach actually does.
- Live DJ between every bout
- Food and drinks on site
- Vendor tables around the floor
- Ring and cage both running
Compete
Want a match? Fill out the form.
If you want to compete, you need two things done before fight day: the fighter form and the waiver. Do both now — matchmaking happens off that list, and we can't match someone we don't have paperwork for.
- Fill out the fighter form. Name, weight, experience, and which discipline you want. Be honest about experience — it's how you get matched with someone at your level.
- Sign the waiver. Nobody competes without it. No exceptions, no signing it at the door.
- Check in at 5:00 PM. Same time doors open. Late check-in risks your spot on the card.
- Bring one corner. One person in your corner, that's it — pick the one who actually helps.
- Your bout gets filmed. We have a videographer on site for the whole card. You'll get footage of your fight.
Not sure you're ready? Talk to your coach first. If you train somewhere else and want on the card, that's fine too — fill out the form and we'll be in touch.
- Check-In
- 5:00 PMDoors and fighter check-in are the same time. Get there at five.
- Corners
- One Per FighterOne cornerman. Not two, not your whole gym — one.
- Paperwork
- Form + WaiverBoth done in advance. Unsigned means you don't compete.
Vendors & Sponsors
Get in front of a full room.
A packed gym for a whole evening, three organizations promoting it, and an audience that bought a ticket on purpose. If you want a table or your name on the night, fill out the form and we'll talk.
Vendor Table
Sell on the floor
Gear, apparel, food, supplements, local trades — space around the floor from doors to last bout.
- Table space on the floor, 5:00 PM to close
- Your own setup, your own sales, you keep what you make
- Foot traffic between every single bout
Sponsorship
Put your name on the night
Local businesses have backed this gym since we opened. Fight night is the loudest room we've got.
- Banner on the ring or the cage
- Called out by the DJ between bouts
- Your logo on event graphics and social posts
- Named on this page
One form for both.
Tell us whether you want a table, a sponsorship, or both, and what you'd be putting in the room. We'll come back to you with space and pricing. Sooner is better — the floor plan gets locked the week of the event.
On Camera
Every bout gets filmed.
We have a videographer on site for the whole card, and every match is filmed. Fighters get footage of their bout — which, for a lot of people, is most of the reason to take an exhibition fight in the first place. You can't study a round you can't watch back, and you can't send a highlight you don't have.
Shooting the card?
If you shoot fights — stills, video, or both — and you want to work this one, put your name in. Send a link to your work and tell us how you like to operate, and we'll come back to you about access and positions.
Find Us
The Sweat Lab
MMA & Fitness
106 E Railroad Avenue, Unit 180
Gibsonville, NC 27249
Ten minutes from Elon, fifteen from Burlington, twenty-five from Greensboro.
Do I need to know anything about fighting to enjoy this?
No. Exhibition cards are the easiest fights to watch — the matches are short, the crowd is loud, and there's a DJ running between bouts. Most of the room on a Lab Wars night is friends and family, not hardcore fans.
Can I bring my kids?
Yes. This is a family room — a lot of the people competing have their own kids ringside. If you've got a young athlete who trains here, watching their coaches and training partners compete is the best advertisement for sticking with it we've ever found.
Who's putting this on?
Three organizations. The Sweat Lab hosts it — our building, our ring, our cage. Matrix MMA out of Greensboro is on it with us, and Stryker Fight Championship is co-promoting the card.
That matters more than it sounds. A card built out of three rooms instead of one has a much deeper pool to match from, which means better fights and, more importantly, nobody stepping in against someone they've got no business being across from.
I train somewhere else. Can I still get on the card?
Yes. This is a co-promoted card — Sweat Lab, Matrix MMA and Stryker fighters are all on it, and we're taking entries from outside those rooms too.
Fill out the fighter form and sign the waiver like everybody else, and we'll be in touch about matchmaking. Bring your coach as your corner — one corner per fighter, same rule for everyone.
What do I bring if I'm competing?
Your own gear and your one corner. Check in at 5:00 PM sharp. If you have questions about what gear is required for your discipline, call the gym before fight day rather than finding out at check-in — 336-221-4257.
Will my fight be filmed? Can I get the footage?
Yes. There's a videographer on site for the whole card and every bout is filmed. Fighters get footage of their own fight.
If you shoot photo or video yourself and you want to work the event rather than watch it, there's a form for that further up the page.
Is there food?
Yes, food on site all evening, plus vendor tables around the floor. Come hungry.
Saturday, September 26 · Doors 5:00 PM
Come watch. Or come fight.
The room's going to be full either way. The only question is which side of the ropes you're on.
Fighters: form and waiver both required · Check in at 5:00 PM · One corner