It’s logical. Dude droppin’ the belt in December, comin’ up just short at the Rumble, failin’ to recapture the belt in Feb, then losin’ in March cools him off considerably. Since he was gonna leave, it didn’t matter, but if he was gonna stick around, it makes sense that he’d not wanna lose three straight singles matches on PPV. “Then, there goes the streak” is him sayin’ that the streak as we know it never woulda happened, not that being the 1 in 4-1 was his motivation cuz it wasn’t — self-preservation was.
Edit: He dropped the belt in November, not December, but the point is still there.