Anthony was introduced to weightlifting his sophomore year of high school. “Weight lifting was offered in PE class but I never took it. Once I joined the baseball team it was mandatory for athletes to weight lift. The first time I went in to weight lift with the team it was really my first time. It was really intimidating to travel from weightlifting station to station not being able to budge the weight. Everybody but me seemed to know what they were doing. I dreaded every weightlifting session. Not only was I weak but my flat chest formed a perfect backdrop for my almost 3D like sternum. The final straw for me came while trying to move some field equipment with another player. We weren’t budging it and finally the coach came over screaming at the other player for being so stupid as to pick me the weakest player on the team to help him move something. I vowed from that day forward to be the biggest strongest guy walking the streets.” As Anthony got bigger and stronger he realized that he really liked the way he was starting to look. “The more I got into it I started gravitating more towards bodybuilders and less towards other baseball players. I pretty much made up my mind that when my baseball career was over I was going to become a bodybuilder.
                By the mid 90’s marriage and a young family had ended the competitive phase of Anthony’s Bodybuilding career but he still managed to lift and keep a decent physique. In early 1995 he started doing a radio show with an established Jacksonville sports journalism and radio personality Greg Larson. ” I used the nickname “The Greek” derived from of course my ethnic background but also the nickname given to my Dad by General George Patton during the North African campaign of WWII.” The show was very successful using the shtick of the older fat sportswriter with the younger hipper athlete. Listeners enjoyed taking sides and Anthony started referring to the listeners that became his fans as Gang Greek. He par let the success of “The Greek” character into another successful show In the Trenches with Jacksonville Jaguar Brian DeMarco. The show was very popular and I a  favorite of many of the then Jaguar players and coaches. A tee-shirt designer at the time designed a catchy Gang Greek shirt and many were given away to players and fans alike. The demand for the shirts were great, everybody wanted one, the pinnacle was reached when Jaguar center Michael Cheever was on the front page of the local sports page wearing a Gang Greek shirt.   

By 1997 Anthony was broke, bankrupt, burned out, and with a wife and young children he needed to make a steady paycheck. He decided to give all of that up and get back into computers which is how he made a living before radio. He continued to go to school and I started learning about the UNIX operating system until 1999 when Lockheed Martin hired him to work on their General Motors Service Parts Operation. He did this until 2001 when Lockheed promoted and relocated him and his family to Orlando, Florida.

Anthony immediately found a gym in Orlando and continued his weightlifting. He noticed something very quickly about the Central Florida gym scene. There were a lot of really big in shape people. Many of these people competed in bodybuilding and figure at all different levels. The more he got to know these people the more he got into the scene, before you know it he was competing.  One thing led to another and Anthony realized that though he made a good living as a UNIX System Engineer, it just wasn’t his passion. Bodybuilding and Fitness is his passion. He gave up his comfortable position to start from scratch, following his bodybuilding passion. The rest as they say, is history.