Career
Šulgan started boxing at the age of sixteen for an amateur club in the nearby town, Frýdek-Místek. After completing his national service he left for North Carolina, in the United States, where he worked and competed in amateur boxing tournaments. Following his successes in the local amateur boxing tournaments he decided to turn professional in 1999, and soon after returned to the Czechoslovakian Republic.
Since then he"s boxed the likes of Tomasz Bonin, Michael Sprott and Alexander Petkovic.
An opportunity arose in 2004 to fight an established and known heavyweight boxer Cedric Boswell at the Atlanta Civic Center in Atlanta, United States, a potential breakthrough for Czechoslovakian boxing. The fight was cancelled however.
In 2010 he was due to take part in a charity boxing event called Night of Heroes held at the Millennium theatre in Prague, endorsed by United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake. Other participating fighters included Tomy Altmann from Germany, Nick Okoth and Artsiom Salomka from Belarus.
The event received live coverage on Eurosport.
His father was Slovak. He"s based in the city of Brno in Moravia but lives in Olomouc.