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NWA Arkansas Heavyweight Championship

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NWA Arkansas Heavyweight Championship
Details
PromotionNWA Tri-State
Date establishedMarch 14, 1939
Date retired1979
Statistics
First champion(s)Alfred Williams
Final champion(s)Charlie Cook

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

Title history

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 Ref(s).
1 Alfred Williams 1 March 14, 1939 N/A live event Claimed both heavyweight and junior heavyweight titles.  
                 
2 Dizzy Davis 1 December 30, 1954 Little Rock, Arkansas live event Defeated Antone Leone  
                 
3 Rock Montez 1 November 1960 N/A live event Defeated Joe Deston.
                 
4 Jack Brisco 1 1960s 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 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 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  

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ The length of the championship reign is too uncertain to calculate.

References

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

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