You can have tremendous advantages of spacing when you use kungfu stances against a Boxer

As today many martial artists fight like Boxers, it is worth spending some time on the philosophy and practice of applying Shaolin Kungfu on Boxing. The techniques here are elementary, which Grandmaster Wong jokingly calls giving a Boxer a fighting chance, compared to those techniques like kicks, felling and chin-na where a Boxer has no counters in his art. It is important to maintain picture-perfect kungfu forms, which will give many technical advantages over Boxing forms, including spacing and speed.