Left to right: Griffin Santopietro as Anthony LaRusso, Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, Tanner Buchanan as Robby Keene, William Zabka as Johnny Lawrence, Xolo Maridueña as Miguel Diaz.

Ralph Macchio and William Zabka reflected on three decades of The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai while speaking with PEOPLE at PaleyFest Scott Huver is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been writing ...

William Zabka is back as Johnny Lawrence in the hit show Cobra Kai, a role he first played in the 1984 movie, The Karate Kid. In the original film, Johnny was the main bad guy, but now ...

Zabka gave an affecting performance, first in a scene with his injured son Robby, as a teary-eyed Johnny told the boy how proud he was of him. The love and emotional maturity the actor conveyed ...