Karate Child and Cobra Kai actor Martin Kove was requested to depart a fan conference in Puyallup, Washington, over the weekend after he allegedly bit fellow Cobra Kai actor Alicia Hannah-Kim on her arm.
Hannah-Kim referred to as police after Kove, allegedly unprovoked, grabbed Hannah-Kim’s arm and bit it as she handed by a meet-and-greet desk on the Summer time Con conference, practically drawing blood. He allegedly kissed her arm when she yelled out in ache, in line with a police report obtained by TMZ. Deadline has confirmed the contents of the report.
Hannah-Kim and her husband, actor Sebastian Roche, who witnessed the alleged incident, say they informed Kove instantly after what he did was utterly unacceptable … and he allegedly “was livid and outraged and visibly indignant once I informed him calmly to not chew me … he insisted he bit me for enjoyable,” in line with the report.
Kove was at Summer time Con to signal autographs and have pics taken with followers for a worth. The handfuls and dozens of such fan confabs throughout the nation annually might be very profitable for style actors, with some making $12,000 to $25,000 s day and much more relying on the present and their particular person attraction.
Hannah-Kim opted to not press prices however requested an informational police report be taken, together with photographs for the document for what police described as a “very noticeable chew mark on her arm that was already turning blue and bruising,” TMZ stories.
Police informed Kove he wanted to depart the venue after the report was filed.
Deadline has contacted representatives for Kove, Hannah-Kim and the Puyallup Police Division.
Information of the incident on the occasion unfold rapidly amongst attendees, we’re informed. “It was all dealt with fairly rapidly on website, and was over earlier than you knew it,” a person with data of the occasions at Washington State Summer time Con informed Deadline at present.
Kove and Hannah-Kim have been a part of a bunch of Cobra Kai expertise attending the star studded Summer time Con over the weekend, Mary Mouser, Tanner Buchanan, Rayna Vallandingham and Patrick Luwis additionally participated. An enormous however considerably beneath the radar occasion for years, Summer time Con 2025 additionally included the the likes of the Daredevil: Born Once more forged, unique Star Trek stars like William Shatner and Walter Koenig, and wrestling legend Chris Jericho.
Kove performed John Kreese, the temperamental sensei within the unique three Karate Child movies, reprising the function in Netflix’s Cobra Kai alongside Ralph Macchio and William Zabka throughout the present’s six seasons. Hannah-Kim joined the Cobra Kai forged in Season 5 as South Korean sensei Kim Da-Eun, remaining with the forged for the rest of the collection.
