Montague Martin

Montague Martin, is a fictional, supporting character from the 1982 television series Police Squad! He is a crime boss and known for tampering with the outcome of boxing fights.

Background
The episode, "Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)" starts during a boxing match, which is won by boxer Mike Schultz. However, the fight was "fixed" and Schultz was supposed to deliberately lose the match. He won anyway, much to the annoyance of Montague Martin who presumably lost money betting on the outcome of the fight. In retaliation, Martin sends his goon Luca Burnett to kill Schultz.

Investigators initially rule the death a suicide, but Captain Ed Hocken isn't convinced that a boxer would kill himself right after the biggest win of his career. Ed decides to send Lieutenant Frank Drebin undercover. The plan is to find a good boxer and straighten him up to draw the interest of Martin.

Frank poses as a boxing manager and goes to Jim's Gym, to look for a fighter. There he notices Buddy Briggs, a talented new fighter who's being stopped from winning by Martin's fight fixing. Frank asks Buddy where his manager is, Buddy tells him in the backroom and Frank goes to see about taking over the boxer's contract. In the backroom, Saul Cooper who is Buddy's manager, and his cronies are playing poker. Frank introduces himself as "Bob Kelly" and sits in to join the game. As the stakes of the poker game get higher, Frank and Saul are the last two players. Frank ultimately convinces Saul to put Buddy's contract on the table, and then wins. Saul tells Frank that he may have a fighter but he'll never get a fight, as him and Martin own the city.

Frank begins training Buddy and lets him know that from now on he won't be taking anymore dives in his fights. Later on in the episide, Frank and Buddy go to a restaurant where Martin, Saul and their fighter, called "The Champ" are at. Frank tries to incite The Champ into fighting with Buddy but he doesn't take the bait, it's only when Buddy tells Frank to let it go, The Champ becomes angry and tries to punch Buddy, who knocks him out in turn. The fight is on. On the night of the fight, Martin goes to Buddy's locker room and lets him and Frank know, that he has taken Mary, Buddy's wife hostage and if he wants to see her alive, he has to lose the match. Frank promises Buddy that he will find Mary but that Buddy has to win.

After going to Johnny the Snitch, Frank learns that one of Martin's henchmen, Luca Burnett is keeping Mary tied up at Jim's Gym. Frank heads over to save Mary and when he arrives a brief shootout ensues between him and Luca. Ultimately Frank ends up killing Luca in a steam room. He takes Mary back to the fight, in time for Buddy to win against The Champ. Seeing Mary is safe and sound, Buddy soon knocks out The Champ and as the reporters gather around, Buddy tells them all about Montague Martin's fight fixing operation. Martin tries to flee but is stopped by Frank and Captain Ed Hocken. Back at the station, Frank says that Martin will have to do his fight fixing from the Statesville Prison from now on, and with Ed saying that from now on the boxers in the city will have to lose honestly.

Montague Martin was incarcerated in the Statesville Prison.

Relationships

 * Martin's Mistress - partner.