He started professionally participating in MMA on February 28, 2013, and so far has appeared in 19 events with a total of 16 wins and 3 losses.
Millender was born on December 1, 1987, in Anaheim, California, United States. He practiced MMA, Striking, wrestling.
He is an African-American fighter with 1672 followers in Twitter and 11.9k followers on Instagram.
He is currently married to his former girlfriend turned wife Ashley. The married couple is living together in their Anaheim, California, United States based home. Further, he is a father to two sons Curtis Jr. and Carter together with his wife Ashley.
He is 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall and weighs 171 lbs. The MMA fighter has 78 in reach.
Curtis Millender is estimated to have earned around $30,000 from his last fight against Max Griffin on July 6, 2018.
As of 2018's end, his current net worth is reportedly around $107,000 and so far his main source of income remains his career as a fighter.
Curtis Millender first started fighting with Fight Club OC and in his pro-debut fought Paul Gemmati and on 28-Feb-13 via in a winning bout via a Unanimous Decision victory. At Fight Club OC he fought some famous fighters like Blake Belshe, J.C. Llamas, Alex Suhonosov, John Mercurio, Dominic Waters, James Chaney and moved to another famous MMA promotion Bellator.
In his first Bellator fight, at Bellator 134 Millender fought Brennan Ward but lost his first ever Bellator fight on 27-Feb-15 in a rear-naked choke Submission. At Bellator 137, he again failed to score against Fernando Gonzalez, but he finally won his third and final bout against Steven Ciaccio for Bellator promotion.
After Bellator, he fought for lights out and again fought at Bellator 170 against Johnny Cisneros, to score around-2 victory via TKO. After that, he fought for another promotion LFA.
Finally, he was introduced to The UFC promotion in UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Medeiros where he fought UFC star Thiago Alves, on 18-Feb-18 and shocked the world after he KO'ed Alves with a flying knee in round 2.
In his most recent fight against Max Griffin on 6th July-2018, at UFC 226, he was again able to win the fight in a unanimous Decision victory in the 3rd round.