Magnus Bulla 22:13

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Magnus Bulla 22:13 was a masked wrestler on the DXX promotion, appearing in one form or another for almost two months before being unmasked.

The First Signs

On the 2nd November, 2007, the Friday Night Mayhem show was continuing as normal. That is, until a video, entitled Safe_Exempt_Target_1 aired. This video got workers and fans of DXX into a frenzy about the true identity of an apparent pair of men calling themselves MB 22:13 and ED 10:9.

Over the following weeks, more videos aired, namingly Our_Hell_2 (which aired, significantly, at Survivor Series 2007), New_Age_3, Over_The_Horizon_4 (which was the first to state the full names of the subjects - Magnus Bulla and Extremus Domino, as opposed to MB & ED), Two_Loners_5 and Brothers_In_Conquest_6 (the first to show the perpetrator's faces).

The Debut

Magnus Bulla and Extremus Domino eventually made their debuts on the 14th December 2007 edition of Friday Night Mayhem, and even aired a new video - To_Night to hype it up. The pair impressively defeated Triple X and Leatherface in a tag team encounter. Bulla and Domino won the encounter, and after the match Triple X vanished, only to emerge a few moments later with the word "Lowly" written on his chest in blood. Bulla and Domino claimed right from the start that the "Lowly" were to be punished.

The Unveiling

At Final Destination 2007, on New Year's Eve 2007, Magnus Bulla and Extremus Domino fought a match with Cryme Tyme for the DXX Tag Team Titles. Bulla and Domino were victorious, and had previously promised everyone connected with DXX that they would reveal their true identities at the event.

Extremus Domino was the first to unmask himself, revealing himself to be Josh Impact.

He then went and introduced the true identity of Magnua Bulla 22:13, and the man behind the mask was soon revealed to be Mr. McMahon.

The Code

"Magnus Bulla" literally translates from Latin into "The Big Boss". Seeing as how McMahon created DXX and was the first Chairman and effective Commissioner, both McMahon and Impact agreed this to be a good name for the character.

The 22:13 after the name stood for McMahon's initials - V being the 22nd letter of the alphabet, and M being the 13th. Impact's initials in Extremus Domino 10:9 were reflected in an identical fashion.

Trivia

A seventh Magnus Bulla 22:13 and Extremus Domino 10:9 video, named Reveal was later found to have been in McMahon's profile / signature since "a week before the MB storyline started", though this video was never aired on DXX TV. The video basically explained the code involved for the MB pseudonym, though one was never found for ED 10:9.

The concepts of Magnus Bulla and Extremus Domino were initially discussed between Impact and McMahon way back in the May - some 6 months before the first video aired on Mayhem. Many accused the pair of copying some well known hype tactics from a bigger promotion, but a promo which aired back in the May of 2007 proves this to not be the case. It teases an eventual McMahon return, with the tagline "No man is safe. No man is exempt. Every man is a target". This is also the tagline for the first Bulla & Domino video, Safe_Exempt_Target_1. No-one seemed to pick up on the connection.

McMahon claims that the original vision of Magnus Bulla was the demon on the cover of the old "Carmageddon" PC Racing game, and most of the videos were written and encoded using this image. However, a man in a steel mask was later used to portray the character.