MMA is a very “what-have-you-done-for-me-lately” kind of game.
Win a few fights and people start talking like you’re the best to ever do it. Lose a few and you got from GOAT to goat almost overnight.
Some of that may have to do with the nature of the sport, where a handful of fights might take up years of an athlete’s career. When those fights comprise a streak, good or bad, it can feel like a bigger sample size than it is simply because the days on the calendar are so much more daunting than the minutes inside the cage when someone is adding them up.