Tony "Bad Boy" Badea (born 2 May 1974) is a Romanian Canadian retired professional boxer.
He won the Canada Welterweight title, Canada Light Middleweight title, International Boxing Organization (IBO) Inter-Continental light middleweight title, and Commonwealth Super Welterweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 143+1⁄2 lb (65.1 kg; 10 st 3.5 lb), i.e. welterweight to 165 lb (75 kg; 11 st 11 lb), i.e. super middleweight.
[2] Badea was born in Romania and immigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, when he was 16 years old.
He is the son of Virgil Badea who was the light middleweight boxing Champion of Romania in 1961.
After he ended his career with three last fights in 2008, he worked in a bakery where he met his wife Jody who gave birth to his daughter, Olivia.