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