Gallery Curtis Millender def. Nick Barnes at LFA 30: Best photos With a perfectly placed head kick against Nick Barnes a little more than a year ago, Curtis Millender punched his ticket to the UFC. Millender took out Barnes in the second round of the LFA 30 main event on AXS TV in January 2018. The right people noticed , and a little more than five weeks later, he was making his UFC debut . That first fight in the UFC was a huge one – Millender took out former welterweight title challenger Thiago Alves with a knee and won a $50,000 bonus. On Saturday, Millender (17-3 MMA, 3-0 UFC) tries to make it a perfect 4-0 in the UFC when he meets Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (20-5 MMA, 6-1 UFC) in the co-main event at UFC on ESPN+ 4, which takes place at INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita, Kan