Zaza Enden
Turkish basketball player (born 1976)
Zaza Enden (born Zaza Eladze on 28 May 1976 in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (present Georgia) is a professional wrestler and a Turkish professional basketball player of Georgian descent. He is 2.06 m tall and weighs 116 kg. His well-known nickname is "Tatu". Zaza Enden plays at the power forward position. He came to Turkey in 1992, firstly to Trabzon, afterwards he had his Turkish citizenship.
Zaza Enden spent his best years with Fenerbahçe, playing at Euroleague level and he was the team captain between 1998 and 2003.
As the player-coach for Akçakoca Poyraz Gençlik in Düzce Enden helped his team win promotion to the Second Basketball League at the end of the season 2006–07.
In 2010, Enden joined the professional wrestling promotion Turkish Power Wrestling.
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