Cobra Kai is one of the most popular shows on Netflix. The show began streaming back in 2018 on YouTube Red, and is in the middle of its sixth and final season.
Other than the martial arts element of the series, wrestling fans have another reason to watch Cobra Kai. One of the most popular wrestlers of AEW, former AEW Women’s World Champion Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D has played a role in the show.
Recently while speaking to US Magazine, Britt Baker shared the real story of how she landed her role on the show.
“I met one of the writers, Hayden [Schlossberg], and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m Britt,’” she recalled. “He recognized me from social media. I kind of joked, but not joking, ‘If you ever need anything, I’m a huge fan and would love to be involved.’ Eventually, he called me and said, ‘You really have the Cobra Kai never say die attitude. If you’re interested, we have a role for you in mind and this is what it is,’” Britt Baker remembered.
Baker also shared that she hasn’t seen the show yet. Britt Baker is waiting for all the episodes to be released so she can binge-watch the show.
“I have to be honest, I haven’t even watched it yet,” she admitted. “I want to wait for all of it to come out so I can watch it all!”
Part 3 of the final season will stream on February 13, 2025.
Martin Kove on Britt Baker
Cobra Kai star Martin Kove, who plays Sensei John Kreese, has appeared on AEW programming on multiple occasions. First, he appeared in a backstage promo with Baker in July 2021. He was later shown on the February 16, 2022 episode of Dynamite, where he gave Baker some sound advice while sitting at ringside.
Kove appeared on The Sessions with Renee Paquette and shared how the crossover opportunity happened, noting that they first met at a convention. Kove said Baker was a huge fan of the show and pitched doing a promo, and it built from there.
“We did an autograph show months ago and my convention agent introduced us. She was great, big Cobra Kai fan, knew all the episodes and everything. She said, ‘Will you do this promo for me.’ I said, ‘What is your background?’ She says, ‘I’m a dentist.’ ‘Oh.’ That’s things you would not think of a wrestler. She said, ‘Will you do this promo for me, it’ll be great.’ Positions are juxtaposed in life and just come in and say something very endearing of me as the character John Kreese. I said, ‘Okay, that’s very endearing, and I’m soft-spoken and loving.’ She got an enormous amount of social media on it, huge.
“She called me a couple of times to do another one and I couldn’t. This time, we were in Nashville, and she wasn’t wrestling, but she was buying into a wrestler that was supposed to win and didn’t. I came in and gave her advice. ‘Finish her yourself, no mercy,’ if it came to that. The person she was sponsoring, lost, so she had to go to the ring and do all this and they all finished screaming ‘Cobra Kai,’ she walked up to me and we played it out. ‘What should I do?’ ‘What I told you to do. Go in there and finish it.’ She goes in there and kicks the girl’s ass.”
