Neither Ralph Macchio nor William Zabka, who play Daniel LaRusso and his rival Johnny Lawrence, ever imagined that 40 years after the release of Karate Kid, they would still be leading the story.

Karate Kid and Cobra Kai star Ralph Macchio has stated ... absence in the seventh movie. Macchio continued, "And through Cobra Kai, continuing to play that truth, and even in the storyline in ...