Mauro L. Metini

Mauro L Metini was born on October 28, 1970 in Mardin, Turkey, a small village near a 1500 old-year Christian Monastery. He is of Babylonian/Assyrian heritage, dating back to Biblical King Nebuchadnezzar, which he is extremely proud of.His mother tongue is Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke over 2000 years ago as portrayed in " The Passion of the Christ.' Mauro is the second eldest of five children. His mother was a homemaker and his father a construction worker who would spend months at a time away from home in order to find work. At the age of 10, Mauro's family moved to Sweden, where he spent his adolescent years. It was in Sweden that he was first introduced to American cowboys movies and the bodybuilding world depicted in Pumping Iron that sparked his love and dream to come and live in America (to become both a cowboy and bodybuilder). It was also during this time that Mauro began working out with former Mr. Europe, Janko Rudman. At age 17, just prior to finishing high school, he