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 ...

Cobra Kai‘s Mary Mouser and Tanner Buchanan recently opened up about portraying Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence’s (William Zabka) children and continuing The Karate Kid‘s ...

Schlossberg, along with his co-creators Josh Heald and Jon Hurwitz, wanted to continue the story about the karate rivals, played by Ralph Macchio and William Zabka in the original 1984 Karate Kid ...

The Karate Kid star appeared on this morning’s episode of The View, where he reflected on reuniting with William Zabka at Morita’s memorial service. Macchio and Zabka played enemies in the ...

Mine said William Zabka, Self. I thought: How the hell am I sitting in this seat? When (“HIMYM” co-creator) Craig Thomas first got in touch with me, he just said he had a dream that Barney ...

Even wise Mr. Miyagi couldn’t have seen the surprising path taken by “The Karate Kid” stars Ralph Macchio and William Zabka. The first day of filming the 1984 movie found Macchio face down ...

William Zabka as Johnny Lawrence, Tanner Buchanan as Robby Keene, Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, Mary Mouser as Samantha LaRusso, Yuji Okumoto as Chozen in Cobra Kai ...

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.

The Karate Kid’s Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) is the quintessential ’80s villain. You didn’t attend high school with thee Johnny Lawrence, but everyone knows a Johnny Lawrence.