Karate Kid 3 Hinted Terry Silver Was Better Than Kreese (Has That Changed?)
The Karate Kid Part III hinting at Terry Silver being a better fighter than John Kreese makes it worth wondering if that’s still the case in Cobra Kai. Over 30 years have passed since Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) and Kreese (Martin Kove) joined forces to get revenge on Mr. Miyagi and Daniel LaRusso in the third Karate Kid movie.
Even though Silver didn’t have a personal beef with Mr. Miyagi and his student in the same way that Kreese did, their goals were aligned in The Karate Kid Part III. Due to the strength of their friendship and the debt that Silver feels he owes to Kreese for what happened during the Vietnam War, Silver was determined to avenge the humiliation Kreese had suffered because of Mr. Miyagi. After reuniting the pair, Cobra Kai season 4 tested the limits of their bond and drove it to the breaking point. In the finale, Silver framed Kreese for the brutal beating of Stingray in order to take the reins of Cobra Kai for himself. As a result of his betrayal, Silver and Kreese are set to be on opposite sides of Cobra Kai season 5’s dojo war, meaning that a fight between them could be on the horizon.
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What happened in The Karate Kid Part III provided a clue to how their skill levels compared in the original trilogy. In the movie, Kreese, Silver, and Mike Barnes each had a turn in fighting Mr. Miyagi. Barnes went down with one move from the karate master and Kreese was defeated in less than twenty seconds. Silver couldn’t beat him either, but the fact that he outlasted Kreese by more than a minute implied that he was the best among the three villains. Of course, so much time has passed since then that it would have been possible for
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