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Calling 5th edition veterans! I play chaos and my friend plays tyranids which both incorporate a large amount of fearless units. He had charged my bezerkers with a tervigon, venomthroape, and termagaunts. I elected for the majority of my bezerkers to attack the venomthroape so it wouldn't reduce my bezerkers to initiative 1. I slayed it outright and inflicted 3 overkill wounds. I know those go towards my total combat score and i won the combat by 3 but my opponent argued that since the "winning" wounds were against his venomthroape the fearless wounds could only be taken against the venomthroape, which was already dead, thus effectively rendering my victory useless

The rulebook states that I total the number of wounds ALL my unit's have inflicted and compare them to his total. The clarification regarding fearless says "these units do not take morale checks and will never fall back. Instead, these units suffer a number of wounds equal to the number their side has lost the combat by. (Allocated as normal )" so surely he he had take 3 saves? What do you think dakka?

You are right. RAW the rest of the units in combat take fearless saves.
It was common in the day to try to multicharge a MC along with another unit e.g. wraithlords and guardians or a Carnifex and termagants.
5th edition had very bloody CC.