Cobra Kai Rock: Six Obscure ’80s Anthems that Should Be on Johnny Lawrence’s Playlist

These overlooked rockers would punch up “Johnny’s Badass Mixtape”

Bill Sullivan Jr
4 min readDec 14, 2021

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Johnny Lawrence was the quintessential ’80s bully. He garnered little sympathy as the villain in The Karate Kid, but the Cobra Kai revival has people seeing Johnny in a whole new light. Will this former bad boy…

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Bill Sullivan Jr

Bill Sullivan is the author of “Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are” (National Geographic Books).