Vybz Kartel showed his true mettle and bravado by clashing Mavado on the singjay's own Anger Management band at 'Sting 2008: The Settlement of All Arguments', and emerged as the competitor who got the most forwards during their verbal exchanges.

The consensus of the streets is that Mavado ran from the stage after earning a forward, in order to give the impression that he was leading. Others believe he was forced to make a tactical retreat at a critical time in the clash when he grabbed the momentum back from Kartel, However, most patrons in the rabid Sting audience were amazed and disgusted by this move. The singjay's drummer also left the stage not allowing Kartel to respond to Mavado's big forward for Shotter No Miss. Then Mavado ran back onstage and declared 'mi neva run, mi did gone reload' and he got a few cheers.

Before that, Mavado had been doing well, before inexplicably becoming flustered and accusing his own band of 'sabotage'. DJ Einstein even ran out and gestured to the band to stop playing Mavado so loudly as to drown out his words. And there was a moment for about five to 12 seconds when he couldn't seem to find a song and was relentlessly booed by the audience.

Kartel, smelling *lo**, quipped: 'mi no hear nothing weh yu say' before deejaying a new lyric with the punchline 'see the step out yah'.

He then reminded Mavado that 'see, a boo dem a boo you'. He responded with Full Clip and got an immediate forward. Kartel sent for a black casket with the words RIP Alliance written on it. Mavado petulantly removed it from the stage, only to have Kartel place it directly behind him while he was singing. At this point it seemed that Kartel was toying with him, setting him up for the eventual kill. Mavado fought back valiantly deejaying a lyric which suggested that Kartel was earting Spice, to which Kartel responded: mi no nyam Spice, but mi f--k yu gal ah bus back'. And the crowd roared its approval.

However, Kartel made a critical error when he was booed after deejaying Wah Dat Fah?. The crowd obviously did not like the references and Mavado took the opportunity to regain lost ground. They exchanged tune for tune and Mavado also dipped below the belt deejaying that Kartel freak/him watch him wadda when she a pee pee. He got some cheers mixed with boos for his effort. Kartel tried to seize back the momentum with a line that suggested that Mavado's child was the 'soldier pickney' but the crowd was not entirely convinced either. It was shortly after this that Mavado did Shotter No Miss and ran off the stage, sapping the energy in the venue and confusing even his diehard fans. After his return, the two rivals exchanged songs but none gained the upperhand, especially with Mavado trying to sing while Kartel was deejaying and interrupting him frequently. At one point, Kartel asked: yu nuh waan mi deejay, and Mavado replied incredibly 'no!'. Finally, Kartel left the stage and Mavado was carried to his bus on the shoulders of his fans. It is not clear if this was a victory parade or if Mavado had become overwhelmed by the moment and had to be carried off the battlefield wounded by still breathing.

Later, many fans expressed surprise that the singjay had ran off the stage in the heat of the battle.

"Ah my deejay still, but mi caan say him win because him run. Real bad man nuh run. Him hold him own still but mi neva like the running ting, and him look nervous, when him foot de pon the speaker box, it a shake, that is understandable still, but the running ting and him neva allow Kartel fi deejay and Kartel never interrupt him; mi never like that, it look cowardly," one dancehall fan said. 

Many of Kartel's fans shouted 'Gaza!!!' Gaza!!! after the show's end and remarked that Mavado had 'polished' the street.

"Him run like Bolt. the Barber did a gwaan good until him run from the war, Gully Pad dead," one fan said.

Pro-Mavado fans maintain that their artiste won the clash.

"Him stand up to Kartel; everybody have it say Kartel woulda win, but Mavado outsmart him when him run offa the stage and tek him bands wid him," the fan said.