Cobra Kai star Sean Kanan details terrifying near-fatal injury while filming The Karate Kid III

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After three decades, The Karate Kid III's hunky bad boy Mike Barnes finally returned to the franchise in season five of Cobra Kai.

Veteran daytime TV star Sean Kanan, 55, exclusively sat down with DailyMail.com to talk about the 'humbling' experience of reprising his famous role alongside Ralph Macchio and William Zabka.Kanan became a Hollywood heartthrob in the late 80s in the third installment of the Karate Kid films, however, he revealed that he barely made it through the production alive.The actor suffered internal bleeding from one of the fight scenes and said the ordeal was one of the 'scariest' moments of his life. 'They didn't know if I could live', he revealed while recalling the harrowing near-death experience.

Fight! Veteran daytime TV star Sean Kanan, 55, exclusively sat down with DailyMail.com to talk about the 'humbling' experience of reprising his famous role alongside Ralph Macchio and William Zabka and his nearly fatal injury on the set of Karate Kid III Sean had been not-so-patiently waiting for a call from Cobra Kai producers from the moment the series was picked up.

The show, a modern spin-off of the Karate Kid film franchise, premiered back in 2018 on YouTube but became a global sensation when it moved to Netflix.'It's incredibly flattering and humbling to be a part of a fandom that after 34 years still has relevance,' Kanan said during his chat with DailyMail.com. 'Once I learned that Cobra Kai was happening, I hoped that it was a matter of time before I would be able to participate.’ 'Five years was a long time to wait!