but the specter of a dirt bike-driving badass in a cool red leather jacket karate ... yacht — but Cobra Kai’s ultimate champion, both literally and figuratively, is Johnny Lawrence.

Yes. I think their love for Johnny Lawrence, and the work I did in the ‘80s from some other films, too, I was always the heel. They called me for a meeting to pitch Cobra Kai and I had no idea ...

In The Karate Kid, Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) was the stereotypical one-dimensional bully figure, but Cobra Kai has developed him into a well-rounded (but flawed) character who is truly worth ...

Zabka reflected when Hurwitz, Heald, and Schlossberg pitched him Cobra Kai as a YouTube Original series in 2018. "I think their love for Johnny Lawrence, and the work I did in the '80s from some ...

[This story contains spoilers from the series finale of Cobra Kai.] In one of our past conversations, you told me that one of the main arcs of the series was the redemption of Johnny Lawrence.