I always found it funny that of all the Cobra Kai, Bobby was the one that had the unwarranted confidence that he could beat Daniel and didn't need to resort to any illegal tactics. Really, Bobby? LaRusso was a buzsaw mowing through Tommy, Dutch, etc, you're clearly the weakest of the whole bunch, and you think you're going to be "that guy"?
Give me a break. The truth is he'd been carried by the rest of the dojo because he was too nice a kid to just kick to the curb, and because he had two smoking hot sisters that Johnny needed to keep around as a backup to Ali. But make no mistake, Bobby was not sniffing the All Valley title without taking Daniel out. His protests almost made a mockery of the whole thing.