Editing Jimmy Wilde (section)

== Retirement ==
Wilde published a ghost-written autobiography in 1938 entitled ''Fighting Was My Business.'' 

In the early 1930s Wilde's son David had a short career in professional boxing without any great success.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jimmy Wilde's Advice to his Son |work=The Northern Whig |date=19 November 1932 |access-date=25 December 2017 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001542/19321119/254/0009| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He gave up boxing to run a hairdressers in north London.

In the 1930s Wilde lived in Hocroft Court, [[Cricklewood]], from where almost all of his boxing trophies and medals were stolen in a 1936 burglary.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jimmy Wilde Loses Trophies |work=Western Daily Press |date=11 February 1936 |access-date=25 December 2017 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000513/19360211/064/0006| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He became a boxing referee, including in 1936 refereeing every bout of a boxing tournament at the Hastings Pier Pavilion.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jimmy Wilde to Referee Pier Tourney |work=Hastings and St Leonards Observer |date=28 March 1936 |access-date=25 December 2017 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000293/19360328/436/0022| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and he wrote an incisive weekly boxing column in the ''News of the World'' for nigh on two decades. In December 1936 he was injured after being thrown from his car when it collided with a van near Hampstead and suffered severe concussion.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jimmy Wilde in Smash |work=Nottingham Journal |date=24 December 1936 |access-date=25 December 2017 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001898/19361224/203/0009| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

After the War Wilde lived in [[Cadoxton, Vale of Glamorgan|Cadoxton]], Barry, South Wales. In 1965, Wilde suffered facial injuries after being mugged at a train station in [[Cardiff]].<ref name="BBC 90 years"/> His wife, Elizabeth, died in 1967,<ref name="Painting">{{cite web | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article1048881.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605003330/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article1048881.ece | url-status=dead | archive-date=5 June 2011 | title=Painting of Wilde offers chance of a brush with greatness | work=The Times| author=Broadbent, Rick | date=2004-03-19 | access-date=2010-03-07}}</ref> and two years later Wilde, who was suffering from Diabetes and Dementia died at [[Whitchurch, Cardiff|Whitchurch]] Hospital. He was buried alongside his wife in [[Barry, Vale of Glamorgan|Barry]] Cemetery.