title: NWA Arkansas Heavyweight Championship
text: # 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.
  
  ## 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 |
  | 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 |
  