that is where you are both actually wrong. If you watch the Robin Reid fight he bearly threw any uppercuts which is his best punch. His range is a form of defence though and he figures that out pretty quick in a fight. He isnt throwing too many wasteful shots, just hard stinging ones that wear you down.

The reason why he threw so many lunging uppercuts in his last fight was that the Pole didnt really do much back and he wanted it to end with a big punch. Before that fight Carl prepared for a very long time and said he had his best ever camp for his hardest fight Inkin, when he didnt get it he just wanted to put on a performance for the fans, which he did. He even said he wasnt at his best boxing skills for that fight and rightfully so, the Pole was awful.

You will see in his next fight he wont be throwing too many untidy shots, unless he knows that hes going in for the kill, those uppercuts really do wear fighters down, and slow them down drastically. If you get hit with one of those, you wont want to be hit again.