He did. And we also saw he was able to control just how much pain he could administer to someone else, when he gave Zoro just a tiny portion of it at first.
Considering Kuma's objective was to test Zoro, and not actually kill him, yes. He gave him enough of the pain to push him to the brink of death, but not actually kill him.
He'd have done the same no matter which Straw Hat stepped up to take that pain. The level of pain in which he gave them...
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