NEW YORK -- Dmitry Salita survived a cut over his left eye in the ninth round and remained unbeaten with a unanimous 10-round decision over Francisco Campos at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Wednesday night.

Salita, a native of Ukraine who lives in Brooklyn, needed the win to remain in contention for a possible welterweight title shot.

"I do my job," Salita said when asked about his lackluster effort. "I go into the ring, win and knock out people. Then I move on to the next one."

Salita, who moved up from junior welterweight earlier this year, weighed 145 pounds and improved to 26-0-1.

"One more fight and hopefully I'll get a title bout early in 2007," said Salita, who is ranked seventh by the WBA. "I'm fighting often at this stage and that's unusual. However, that's the plan ... stay busy until we get our title shot."

Campos, 144 1/2, of Costa Rica, fell to 21-8-1.

On the undercard, David Estrada, 1511/2, of Chicago, stopped Clarence Taylor after seven rounds of a 10-round fight. Taylor, 152, of Wilmington, Del., suffered a cut over his left eye and was unable to continue. Estrada improved to 19-3, while Taylor fell to 11-10-2.

Also, Edgar Santana, a native of Puerto Rico living in New York, scored a unanimous 10-round decision over Volodimir Khodakovskiy of Ukraine. Santana improved to 18-3, while Khodakovskiy dropped to 12-10-2. Both weighed 141 1/4 pounds.'