Just now Anna O'NeillBBC News, Bethnal Green, London BBC Ryan Pickard started boxing at Repton Boxing Club aged seven In all good boxing stories the underdog becomes the unlikely champion – and the tale of Learning The Ropes being the opening documentary at the BFI Southbank's boxing season is no different. The self-shot film is set in Repton boxing club in Bethnal Green, which has produced dozens of champion boxers and where notorious East End gangsters, the Kray twins, once boxed.