The actor told PEOPLE showrunners thought the alternate idea "was a little hokey" Martin Kove is satisfied with how Cobra Kai's final season left his character, John Kreese, but there was another way ...

“We did shoot a scene where… I’m smoking the cigar and I grab a magazine ... and with credibility — not with an absurd ...

Kreese grabs the smoldering stub of his cigar and tosses it into the gasoline, enveloping the yacht in a massive fireball. Thus ends the epic life of John Kreese…or does it? “You have to know ...

It was only fitting that he would be ambushed on his yacht, and the ambusher in question was John Kreese ... s deck, and Kreese decided what the hell, and he threw his cigar toward some propane ...

The fate of John Kreese (Martin Kove ... Their intense battle reaches its climax when Kreese drops a lit cigar onto a pool of spilled gasoline. The resulting explosion engulfs the entire yacht ...

Cobra Kai Season 6 concluded with John Kreese's ultimate sacrifice, protecting the dojo from Terry Silver. With Kreese gone, Johnny Lawrence becomes the new sensei of Cobra Kai. Fans are ...

And I sit there with a cigar watching Westerns ... like his antagonistic dojo owner John Kreese from "The Karate Kid," a role he reprised in the Netflix spinoff series "Cobra Kai." ...

I'm smoking the cigar and I grab a magazine ... with credibility — not with an absurd confirmation that somehow John Kreese survived that fiery blast," he further explained.