As Entwistle shared with the outlet, he definitely thinks Jaden Smith’s The Karate Kid character is still absolutely canon and out there somewhere in the world of Karate Kid: Legends. It seems like perhaps he wasn’t deemed necessary to the story of Ben Wang’s Li Fong and therefore is not in this new movie.

Legendsfeatures all the hallmarks of the Karate Kid franchise: a kid who's moved to a new city and struggles to fit in, develops a crush on a local girl (and a rivalry with a borderline psychopath who knows karate),