I think he is overrated, but not of alltime he's as about as overrated as a more recent fighter i.e. his good buddy ZAD JUDAH or even i.e. Fernando vargas...

It's that those that think that it's as tyson once said "it's ludacris" to think that he's overrated can't give any credentials that make him great...so he knocked out a lot of bums...I mean the epitome of the word "bum", anytime you fight 27 times in two years you're fighting bums...

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=000474

this is just to give good visual info on the bums...click on any one of his so called real opponents..other than the obvious ones that he lost to...holyfield, lewis, douglass...the old larry holmes & spinks....he didn't beat anybody...even berbick was on his way out....

This guy is isn't great because he knocked out bums in the first round... here's anther guy with more knockouts than tyson...is he an alltime great?

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=000474

That's butterbean..in case you don't know...and they have a few common opponents...tyson has his place in history because he was the youngest heavyweight not because he was great....