NWA Arkansas Heavyweight Championship

The NWA Arkansas Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship sanctioned by the National Wrestling Alliance and defended in its Arkansas territory.^[1]

Details

Promotion

Date established

March 14, 1939

Date retired

1979

Statistics
First champion(s)	Alfred Williams
Final champion(s)	Charlie Cook

Title history edit

Key
Symbol	Meaning
No.	The overall championship reign
Reign	The reign number for the specific wrestler listed.
Event	The event in which the championship changed hands
N/A	The specific information is not known
—	Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign
	Indicates that there was a period where the lineage is undocumented due to the lack of written documentation

No.	Champion	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes
1	Alfred Williams	1	March 14, 1939	^{[Note 1]}	N/A	live event	Claimed both heavyweight and junior heavyweight titles.

2	Dizzy Davis	1	December 30, 1954	^{[Note 1]}	Little Rock, Arkansas	live event	Defeated Antone Leone

3	Rock Montez	1	November 1960	^{[Note 1]}	N/A	live event	Defeated Joe Deston.

4	Jack Brisco	1	1960s	^{[Note 1]}	N/A	live event	Records are unclear on how he won the championship
5	Chuck Karbo	1	June 26, 1970	−96	N/A	live event
6	Jerry Miller	1	March 22, 1970	^{[Note 1]}	N/A	live event

7	Ernie Ladd	1	October 28, 1978	5	Little Rock, Arkansas	live event	Won a tournament to win the title.
8	Ray Candy	1	November 2, 1978	70	Little Rock, Arkansas	live event
9	Ron Bass	1	January 11, 1979	72	Little Rock, Arkansas	live event
10	Charlie Cook	1	March 24, 1979	^{[Note 1]}	Little Rock, Arkansas	live event
—	Vacated, later abandoned	—	1979	—	N/A	N/A	Championship vacated after Cook was injured. Abandoned when Bill Watts bought NWA Tri-State and renamed it Mid-South Wrestling

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f The length of the championship reign is too uncertain to calculate.

^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.