Profiles in Courage: The Assassin

Real Name: Richard Gallagher

Place of Origin: Garden City, Long Island

Occupation: Freelance hit-man for various micro-brews.

Signature Move: Incinerating an opponent’s ball from 3 clicks away

Background: An original member of Cobra Kai, Richard Gallagher has provided the dojo with his calculating marksmanship season after season. Gallagher first learned bocce on the streets of Cairo while learning marksmanship from Egyptian ninjas. It has been said that he once used the tomb of King Tut as his personal bocce court, earning victories over Cleopatra and the sun-god Ra.

Gallagher allegedly spent most of the late 90’s as an assassin for the Tyco truck company and is rumored to be behind the death of the Remo Williams movie franchise. By the turn of the century, Gallagher was inducted into the international League of Assassins. Here, he led their bocce team to victory against SPECTRE in the 1^st annual “Assassins Only” World Bocce Tournament. It was there that he was recruited by Sensei, operating under deep cover on the Cobra Command team (which, surprisingly, has no affiliation with Cobra Kai… but should).

Gallagher is currently on bocce hiatus this summer for reasons unknown, though Cobra Kai strongly suggests their opponents avoid large, open spaces.