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]
| NWA Arkansas Heavyweight Championship | |||||||
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| Details | |||||||
| Promotion | NWA Tri-State | ||||||
| Date established | March 14, 1939 | ||||||
| Date retired | 1979 | ||||||
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Title history
| 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 | [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 |
See also
Footnotes
- The length of the championship reign is too uncertain to calculate.
References
- Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
External links
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