The whole punishment thing sounds like some shit someone made up. If Vince was really upset with him he'd have been fired,or at least made into a Saturday morning jobber; instead of given a gimmick that pushed him to the moon with feuds with Orndorff, Tito and Bruno, and Piper.
And George Steele is an Obama Kenya secret Muslim truther moron type, so I don't take much of what he says as factual.