You can't descredit a 12 fight winning streak by calling half of them luck and bad calls.
Heart, cardio and toughness are all important attributes in a fighter.
Yeah Tony's run totally had zero luck involved...
- Getting the Castillo decision
- Lando taking the fight on short notice so he has zero gas tank to follow up and finish Tony on any of the 5x he drops him
- The countless times the Khabib fight fell through instead of happening
- Illegally upkicking Barboza to turn the fight around
- Illegally eyepoking RDA conveniently in the only early round RDA lost which cost him the decision
- Lee being allowed to fight with the worst staph in UFC history which made him gas
- Pettis breaking his own hand dropping Tony, allowing Tony to recover and turn things around
- Pettis' corner stopping the fight in between rounds because of that broken hand
- Illegally punching Cerrone after the bell causing his nose to fill up and hurting him to the point he's confused enough to blow out his nose, something he hadn't done all fight with his already broken nose, and blow up his own face between rounds
- Tony getting a TKO for that instead of a DQ when it was the illegal blow that was the issue here
- Not having to fight any of Eddie, Conor, Poirier, or Holloway (when he kept trying to come up) and instead always getting lower ranked guys beyond RDA
Etc.
Tony skated through his win streak on a hair. It's beyond silly to pretend to he was on some dominant streak, skillfully head and shoulders above the rest. He lost nearly a dozens times and kept winning yes in large part because of nothing to do with him.
No matter how you look at it his style was effective and got the job done. He took more risks than 90% of fighters and that's why he often got himself in these bad positions. Not because he's a bad fighter.
Hell I reckon he could've won those fights even more convincingly had he not tried stupid shit.
This is literally everybody's point. His style was costing him.