Martin Kove reprises his role as John Kreese, a Vietnam war veteran and the no-nonsense sensei at the Cobra Kai Dojo Kayla Grant is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

John Kreese, played by the one and only Martin Kove, has been as central to “Cobra Kai” as he was to the original “Karate Kid” films. And with the final five episodes of “Cobra Kai ...

Martin Kove is pleased with how Cobra Kai wrapped up his character, John Kreese, but he reveals that his story almost ended in a different way. In an exclusive conversation with People at the ...

In the chaos of the skirmish, Kwon found a knife dropped at the edge of the mat by Sensei John Kreese (Martin Kove) and pocketed it before returning to a fight with Iron Dragons dojo member Axel ...

This article contains events from the final season of Cobra Kai. They say Cobra Kai never dies but John Kreese (Martin Kove) sure seems to have met his end in the penultimate episode of the series.