Rivals Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence have faced off five times throughout The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai and they tend to be evenly matched .Johnny Lawrence and Daniel Larusso have been rivals since their teenage years in The Karate Kid and their fights have also spread into Cobra Kai. Going into the Netflix series final season the duo has sorted out their differences and found themselves as close as friends as they ever could be. Still Johnny and Daniel have too much history between them to be entirely done with their fight.
This all started back in The Karate Kid during the beach scene when Daniel punched Johnny in the face after a disagreement involving his new love interest and Johnnys previous one Ali Mills. From that moment on the two would be stuck in a rivalry that would last decades. They should battle both on the mat and off tournament rules or free-for-all a total of five times going into Cobra Kais wrap up season. Overall they have established that they are evenly matched since each holds one win over the other—but all that could change in season 6.The first real fight between Johnny and Daniel after the latter's sucker punch at the beach was during the Halloween dance in The Karate Kid. Though Johnny was an undeniable bully this altercation was started by Daniel. After pranking Johnny by pouring water over him in the bathroom Daniel ran off hoping to escape. Of course this did not work out and Johnny gave him a beating that could very well have killed him.
As far as Johnny and Daniel go this is technically a win for Cobra Kais golden child. However, this was hardly fair since Daniel had not yet been trained in Karate. The real winner of the battle was the legendary Mr. Miyagi who showed up in the knick of time to have his iconic The Karate Kid fight with the group of Cobra Kai students. Still this is technically Johnnys only victory over his bothersome rival.
Johnny Lawrence would remember this match as the day things went downhill for his life. After Daniels kick which Johnny vehemently claims later was illegal the defeated Cobra Kai champion good-naturedly handed over the trophy himself and told his rival that he was alright after all. However The Karate Kid Part II revealed that even though Johnny had accepted his loss John Kreese did not. After his sensei became violent Johnny left Cobra Kai and things were never the same for him again.
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