User blog comment:LordLuminous/Fairy Tail 491: Mother and Child Review/@comment-5303512-20160629200401/@comment-7418318-20160630072047

It really depends on whether Bradman had already gotten a lethal injury from Gajeel and would have died even if the fight suddenly ended, or if Bradman thought that he would be killed for sure, but wasn't yet fatally injured. His words could easily have meant either.

If it's the former, I'm sure he's as dead as Derax said. Gajeel only survived his MBP poisoning due to the Tenrou Tree's god-mode cheat.

If it's the latter, just being seperated from Gajeel by itself would already have been enough to save Bradman's life. Though with how badly Gajeel mauled him, he'd probably be incapacitated.